Originally posted by sonhouseUmmmm.... By paying attention. By communicating briefly and exactly. By realizing that adults who let dictators come to power are childish.
But that dictator had a huge military machine holding him up. Don't you remember the assassination attempt against him and he destroyed the whole village where it originated? Don't you remember the 30+ million killed by Stalin? How bout over a third of the Cambodian population killed by Pol Pot? It's all well and good to blame the people but just how do you ...[text shortened]... like Chaney? Like they said, Bush was just a heartbeat away from the presidency.
I know. I dream too much. I just think that it would be a really good world if people didn't always have an excuse for their lives being "dictated" by bad guys.
I guarantee that I will never be dictated to. Can you say the same? That's ALL I want.
Originally posted by StarValleyWyI personally would fight to the death against a would be dictator but once the bastards are established its way too late to fight them off in an internal rebellion. The only way such a rebellion could succeed is if they catch the would be dictator while he still has a weak following. When he has only a few hundred soldiers that's when the locals can put him down but not when he has a half million man army with modern weapons.
Ummmm.... By paying attention. By communicating briefly and exactly. By realizing that adults who let dictators come to power are childish.
I know. I dream too much. I just think that it would be a really good world if people didn't always have an excuse for their lives being "dictated" by bad guys.
I guarantee that I will never be dictated to. Can you say the same? That's ALL I want.
Originally posted by zeeblebotAll I can say is WOW, he has written more than 50 books and has more to come for sure. Who here has read the most of him? I think maybe I read one or two short stories that may have appeared in Analog or Amazing sometime but never read a single novel of his, maybe I should start. So which one should I start with first?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._E._Modesitt,_Jr.#The_Ecolitan_Institute_novels_.28internal_chronological_order.29