tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post114874899169004968..comments2023-10-24T05:49:04.269-04:00Comments on The Chaliceblog: Should this make me feel better? Or not?Chalicechickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148758591331546022006-05-27T15:36:00.000-04:002006-05-27T15:36:00.000-04:00I suspect that at the time of the French Revolutio...I suspect that at the time of the French Revolution, it was mostly the upper classes that were refined. Course, they had already gotten carried away with power, that's why they had a revolution.... Am I arguing both sides again? :-)<BR/><BR/><BR/>[the word verification thingy is strangly appropriate to this subject; royrzuse]Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148750678287765812006-05-27T13:24:00.000-04:002006-05-27T13:24:00.000-04:00I don't know that we are that much more prone to g...I don't know that we are that much more prone to getting carried away with our power. <BR/><BR/>I mean, we think of the French as refined and the French revolution was the very definition of getting a little power and getting carried away with it. <BR/><BR/>CCChalicechickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07781469958573869914noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9864334.post-1148749620546950232006-05-27T13:07:00.000-04:002006-05-27T13:07:00.000-04:00People are people all over the world. Power corru...People are people all over the world. Power corrupts. People who are used to no power get heady when they get a little power. It's a human thing. We are maybe more prone to getting carried away with it than some others because of our culture, but everybody is susceptible. I imagine some cultures are worse than ours -- like maybe in the Middle East?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com