Chapter 150 In space with a junkyard ship
Added 2026-01-14 16:03:20 +0000 UTCComments
If some people are interested, its an interesting lecture on this page, really Dunes novels of Frank Herber are a Magnus Opus with so many different layer and reflexion and subjects weaved together in an amazing whole, (and depending 'how its read' different layer are seen) what is insane in my view is that many many subjects aborded are just so relevant to present time (reread not long ago as im more old now and just woa) and it was started to be researched and writen in 1957 lol and first publication of the first books in 1965, just insane. https://blog-dune--sf-fr.translate.goog/pouvoir-et-corruption/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Zarik0
2026-01-14 19:50:13 +0000 UTCYou are right, the positions of power are more likely to attract people who are easily or already corrupted. But I completely know that power itself corrupts, so this saying is 100% true. Even the best person will bend to its will to some degree, the corruption can be so subtle that even you can't notice it. But believe me, that saying goes so deep and is so true that most can't understand it. its apsolutly fundamental
Apinsig
2026-01-14 19:30:22 +0000 UTC"Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders."
Zarik0
2026-01-14 19:22:05 +0000 UTC"The saying “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” is one of the most fundamental truths of life." Total Nay I say, this is a very 'Popular' One-Sided and very Simplistic take and view on the Thing, I would add irresponsible to it too, so its a very Popular 'incorrect'/wrong take on it in my view. "It is no so much as power corrupts, and so absolute power corrupts absolutely, than power attract the nature corruptible" "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic/attractive to the corruptible " Also power reveal the true nature of people, (in the meaning that it reveal/show/magnify the full detail and nature of the character of the people) same as people who dont have big power but think they (or other 'normal' people like them) are 'better' or will do better than the people who have power (who are 'corrupt'/bad/not good enough), they are not, it just that the power make it possible to magnify and show the full detail and nature of the character of these people, in true they are the same. Beside that unfortunatly, as power attract the nature corruptible, we so get more % of corruptible in power than not corruptible people, as these people, act/work/move actively to get it and hold it (more often for just the sake of it or some corruptible nature of them made possible easily with it) and so hold power as they desire and are attracted by it and want it more than others.
Zarik0
2026-01-14 19:20:40 +0000 UTCThanks for the chapter! Interesting that there are skills that ameliorate the detrimental effects of skills.
RedLeaf
2026-01-14 17:39:40 +0000 UTCTftc!
brennon Petersen
2026-01-14 16:40:45 +0000 UTC
