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Suppose that one is to endeavor to be, for a moment in time and space, a member of the public that constitutes Public Opinion.
One might conclude, right or wrong, that a powerful Despot lives and breaths, exercising absolute power, on this earth, hear and now, among the rest of the current busy exchanges of equity between free individuals who make up the rest of mankind.
One might not be so disposed to get that far into the nitty gritty.
One might simply say:
The Shit is about to hit the fan.
One might, for example, look at this and conclude that the Shit is coming from an identifiable orifice:
One might then express their Opinon here:
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homepage&JServSessionIdr009=5eoqftsq43.app1b
Let's Make It a Million!the number of people who have already voted
717654 :
in the referendum to Impeach Bush!
(figure updated daily)
One would not be alone. One would not be 'the majority'. One would be one.
Would one then be opening Pandora ’s Box, unleashing the devil incarnate, to the ruin of mankind forever and always?
Perhaps - risks are involved for every individual predisposed to act in any manner they determine to be right or wrong according to their own special interest – one at a time in time and space while one remains alive in a particularly dangerous world.
Then one might feel somewhat less powerless and even, dare I say, less subdued within one’s own conscience. Freedom from guilt is perhaps a costly affair.
Possibly; one might not stop at that one gesture of Opinion. One might be forever engulfed with the elixir of power; having dared to wield this very dangerous stuff. One might set their sights on the next preposterous claimant to the throne of absolute dictator.
Or not. People may just go about their own business. Public Opinion is rather fickle.