Comments on: The poor should lead a reckless life https://www.isegoria.net/2017/10/the-poor-should-lead-a-reckless-life/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Faze https://www.isegoria.net/2017/10/the-poor-should-lead-a-reckless-life/comment-page-1/#comment-2586917 Faze Sun, 08 Oct 2017 21:41:34 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=42464#comment-2586917 This is why many young people want to see the overthrow of the established order. Facing an uncertain world with what seem to them to be few resources, they instinctively wish for some level of chaos or disorder, the hope being that the new order will be more favorable to their gifts.

I realize now that this is why I was a left-wing radical fool when a lad. I figured that anything was better than society as it was then ordered, because the only way I could see that I could get ahead would be through hard work, conscientiousness, etc. Horrors! My hope was that with society overturned, a new order might arise in which lazy people like myself could contemplate our naval without starving. I still meet young people who are as I once was.

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