servants and masters, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry, aphorism 339

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There will always be servants and masters, because society needs them. Perhaps it even needs the glutton and the emaciated, as points of measurement — since one cannot know the center of a circle without knowing the perimeter. It would follow then that a society that produced only moderate citizens would never know its natural center. It would then in all probability be unable to remain moderate. Being unable to distinguish between necessity and desire, it would see only its desires, until it approached the perimeter of necessity ... that is, until threatened with extinction.



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