When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.
People drink democracy in a glass of tea but night falls, again.
Berlin of 1884 was effected through the sword and the bullet. But the night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard. The physical violence of the battlefield was followed by the psychological violence of the classroom. But where the former was visibly brutal, the latter was visibly gentle … The bullet was the means of physical subjugation. Language was the means of the spiritual subjugation.
