Everyone knows that “history is written by the victors.” Many people will have also heard Lord Acton’s dictum that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Rather than being thought of as cliches, I would classify these two sayings as something closer to axiomatic principles of history, if such things exist. The truthful core at the heart of these two memorable principles could be summed up as something approximating: “there is injustice in the world, and the strong always prey on the weak.” Such negative sentiments, though universally acknowledged, are therefore easier to dismiss with a simple epigram in order to move on to more urgent matters of the vitaquotidiana. By opening with a mention of these two maxims, my aim is not to dismiss them as a somber epitome of the historical injustice in the world and our powerlessness to affect it, however, but to…
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