Let me quote a little more from Max Weber. Bureaucratic administration dominates the people through knowledge. Technical knowledge and practical knowledge. Keeping that knowledge increases their superiority.
No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor" — infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses people.
Now it belongs to me. You see, when you take a heart, it becomes enchanted. Stronger than a normal heart. You're not hurting the beast. You're controlling it.
To divide people into vaccinated and unvaccinated is to revive the fascist ideology.
The introduction of QR codes among people is the first step towards their depersonalization.
Es sinnt Gewalt und List nur dies Geschlecht;
Was will, was soll, was heißet denn das Recht?
Hast du die Macht, du hast das Recht auf Erden.
Selbstsüchtig schuf der Stärk’re das Gesetz,
Power is a lot like real estate. It's all about location, location, location. The closer you are to the source, the higher your property value.
I was born of the ice and snow
With the winter wolves, in the dark, alone
The wildest night, I became the one
And you'll know you're mine when the silence calls
Heavy is the crown only for the weak
A knife in my heart couldn't slow me down
'Cause power is power, the fire never goes out
I rise from my scars, nothing hurts me now
'Cause power is power
Now watch me burn it down.
Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
It began with the forging of the great rings.
Three were given to the Elves:
Immortal, wisest and fairest of all beings.
Seven to the dwarf lords:
Great miners and craftsmen of the mountain halls.
And nine, nine rings were gifted to the race of men who,
above all else, desire power.
For within these rings was bound the strength and the will to govern each race. But they were, all of them, deceived; for another ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged, in secret, a master ring. And into this ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
One ring to rule them all.
One by one, the free lands of Middle-earth fell to the power of the ring.
But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor. And on the slopes of Mount Doom they fought for the freedom of Middle-earth. Victory was near, but the power of the Ring could not be undone. It was in this moment, when all hope had faded, that Isildur, son of the King, took up his father's sword. Sauron, the enemy of the free peoples of Middle-earth, was defeated.
The ring passed to Isildur, who had this one chance to destroy evil forever. But the hearts of men are easily corrupted, And the ring of power has a will of its own. It betrayed Isildur to his death. And some things that should not have been forgotten, were lost.
History became legend, legend became myth, and for two-and-a-half thousand years, the Ring passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, it ensnared a new bearer.
The ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty mountains. And there, it consumed him. The ring brought to Gollum unnatural long life. For five hundred years, it poisoned his mind. And in the gloom of Gollum's cave, it waited. Darkness crept back into the forests of the world. Rumor grew of a shadow in the East, whispers of a nameless fear. And the Ring of power perceived: its time had now come.
It abandoned Gollum. But something happened then, the ring did not intend. It was picked up by the most unlikely creature imaginable: A hobbit, Bilbo Baggins of the Shire. For the time will soon come when hobbits will shape the fortunes of all...
The prologue of the trology — is voiced by Galadriel.