‘A man has as many masters as he has vices’: How moral decay fuels political control

[Votto]

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Corrupting a culture through vice is one of the most effective tools tyrants have.

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Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential philosophers and Christian theologians in history, and he had a stark warning for the Western world: "A man has as many masters as he has vices."

And Seth Gruber, CEO of White Rose Resistance, is relaying this warning, explaining that it means “by promoting vice, the regime promotes slavery, which can then be fashioned into a form of political control.”

“That sentence I just said Allie Beth is the beating heart of libido dominandi: the lust to dominate,” he tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“Dominion becomes domination when man listens to and accepts the serpent’s counterfeit kingdom. And the things that we were called to steward ... become the very things we are now enslaved to,” he says.

“Domination is a reflection of your own slavery projected onto others. But dominion is a reflection of your own stewardship exercised on behalf of others. So one is the city of man, and one is the city of God,” he continues. “But in each case, it reveals who or what we really worship.”


"Vice," Gruber explains, "is contagious.”

And like anything contagious, it’s easily spread.

“Tyrants work very hard to spread the infection,” he explains, “because they know that a virtuous populace cannot be controlled. So they have to corrupt, seduce, blackmail. They have to weaponize lust.”

Gruber likens this to Jeffrey Epstein, because if “you cannot defeat militarily, you can always corrupt through sexual enticement.”

“Maybe that’s why the Epstein list will never get released,” he adds.

Stuckey agrees, adding, "What a fascinating, very disturbing connection ... Epstein, you can just see it."

Is this why the political establishment seems are war with morality? Is being an amoral society the key to enslaving it?

Ben Franklin had similar views

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults,
if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and
there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well
administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered
for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done
before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic
Government, being incapable of any other.

Franklin also seemed to think that despotism was a natural consequence of moral depravity.

What say you?

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Agreed.
The state should not profit from or support vice.
Through taxation, they tacitly promote and approve of vice.
Then they pass laws regulating vice and the behavior of citizens engaging in it.
Those result in fines and incarceration.
It's a vicious web of enslavement.

 

[d0gbreath]

I have two masters: decadence and debauchery.
Without which I'd have nothing to do.

 

[Votto]

Agreed.
The state should not profit from or support vice.
Through taxation, they tacitly promote and approve of vice.
Then they pass laws regulating vice and the behavior of citizens engaging in it.
Those result in fines and incarceration.
It's a vicious web of enslavement.

Your post reminded me of what brought Prohibition to fruition.

A federal Income tax was struck down by SCOTUS as being unconstitutional before the turn of the 20th century. So, Progressives in Congress simply decided to add it. But they needed help, they needed votes, so they colluded with those who favored Prohibition due to the ravages of alcoholism during that time. In fact, alcoholism continues to kill more people today than any other drug.

Anyway, those that wanted the Federal income tax told the group that favored Prohibition that they must first vote to create a Federal income tax to fund the Federal government, because most of the funding came from taxes on alcohol. If you get rid of the alcohol, you lose all your federal funding. So, they agreed and first passed the Federal Income tax into the Constitution for the first time so that the Federal government would continue to be funded. And the Progressives held up their end by later voting for Prohibition. However, the vote was half hearted by those who wanted the Federal Income tax amended into the Constitution as Congressmen who have just voted for Prohibition had bootleggers routinely selling alcohol to legislators anyway. Sure, they made a few arrests here and there, but there was by in large no real effort or desire to enforce Prohibition, so they just slowly let if fail, causing them to end Prohibition a few years later on the premise that it was not possible to enforce.

After all this, not only did the Federal government now have a Federal Income tax to fund it, they also restarted collecting tax revenue from alcohol sales that doubled their revenue, and then some!

But that was the plan all along.

Now the state has the gall to not only keep alcohol legal and collect federal revenue from it, but they now sell it directly to US citizens via state owned liquor stores even though alcohol continues to ravage society health wise.

 

[Votto]

I have two masters: decadence and debauchery.
Without which I'd have nothing to do.

So, how long have you "served" in Congress then?

 

[g5000]

‘A man has as many masters as he has vices’: How moral decay fuels political control | Blaze Media

Corrupting a culture through vice is one of the most effective tools tyrants have.

www.theblaze.com

Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential philosophers and Christian theologians in history, and he had a stark warning for the Western world: "A man has as many masters as he has vices."

And Seth Gruber, CEO of White Rose Resistance, is relaying this warning, explaining that it means “by promoting vice, the regime promotes slavery, which can then be fashioned into a form of political control.”

“That sentence I just said Allie Beth is the beating heart of libido dominandi: the lust to dominate,” he tells BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“Dominion becomes domination when man listens to and accepts the serpent’s counterfeit kingdom. And the things that we were called to steward ... become the very things we are now enslaved to,” he says.

“Domination is a reflection of your own slavery projected onto others. But dominion is a reflection of your own stewardship exercised on behalf of others. So one is the city of man, and one is the city of God,” he continues. “But in each case, it reveals who or what we really worship.”


"Vice," Gruber explains, "is contagious.”

And like anything contagious, it’s easily spread.

“Tyrants work very hard to spread the infection,” he explains, “because they know that a virtuous populace cannot be controlled. So they have to corrupt, seduce, blackmail. They have to weaponize lust.”

Gruber likens this to Jeffrey Epstein, because if “you cannot defeat militarily, you can always corrupt through sexual enticement.”

“Maybe that’s why the Epstein list will never get released,” he adds.

Stuckey agrees, adding, "What a fascinating, very disturbing connection ... Epstein, you can just see it."

Is this why the political establishment seems are war with morality? Is being an amoral society the key to enslaving it?

Ben Franklin had similar views

In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution with all its faults,
if they are such; because I think a general Government necessary for us, and
there is no form of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well
administered, and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered
for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done
before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic
Government, being incapable of any other.

Franklin also seemed to think that despotism was a natural consequence of moral depravity.

What say you?

You full-throatedly back a man who is a serial adulterer, a prolific thief who stole from cancer kids and stole from the elderly at his fake university, who made his living off gambling houses, and who bears false witness on a daily basis!

Talk about a total lack of self-awareness!

 

[Gabe Lackmann]

Your post reminded me of what brought Prohibition to fruition.

A federal Income tax was struck down by SCOTUS as being unconstitutional before the turn of the 20th century. So, Progressives in Congress simply decided to add it. But they needed help, they needed votes, so they colluded with those who favored Prohibition due to the ravages of alcoholism during that time. In fact, alcoholism continues to kill more people today than any other drug.

Anyway, those that wanted the Federal income tax told the group that favored Prohibition that they must first vote to create a Federal income tax to fund the Federal government, because most of the funding came from taxes on alcohol. If you get rid of the alcohol, you lose all your federal funding. So, they agreed and first passed the Federal Income tax into the Constitution for the first time so that the Federal government would continue to be funded. And the Progressives held up their end by later voting for Prohibition. However, the vote was half hearted by those who wanted the Federal Income tax amended into the Constitution as Congressmen who have just voted for Prohibition had bootleggers routinely selling alcohol to legislators anyway. Sure, they made a few arrests here and there, but there was by in large no real effort or desire to enforce Prohibition, so they just slowly let if fail, causing them to end Prohibition a few years later on the premise that it was not possible to enforce.

After all this, not only did the Federal government now have a Federal Income tax to fund it, they also restarted collecting tax revenue from alcohol sales that doubled their revenue, and then some!

But that was the plan all along.

Now the state has the gall to not only keep alcohol legal and collect federal revenue from it, but they now sell it directly to US citizens via state owned liquor stores even though alcohol continues to ravage society health wise.

Government is almost always at the root of every problem. Government should be very limited, very small, and almost unseen.

 

[Votto]

You full-throatedly back a man who is a serial adulterer, a prolific thief who stole from cancer kids and stole from the elderly at his fake university, who made his living off gambling houses, and who bears false witness on a daily basis!

Talk about a total lack of self-awareness!

Who are you talking about again?

The Epstein class is the only class that has access to the Swamp.

At least Trump did not support mass infanticide and mutilating the genitals of children, so there is that.

Baby steps.

 

[Votto]

Government is almost always at the root of every problem. Government should be very limited, very small, and almost unseen.

Human nature will not allow this.