Comments on: While everything is stabilized, you go and arrest all the political leaders that could challenge you https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Michael van der Riet https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3746812 Michael van der Riet Fri, 07 Mar 2025 05:48:33 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3746812 James Blish didn’t like anyone in Stand on Zanzibar (which if you follow Ed H.’s link is by John Brunner as he admits and it would be amusing to find out why and how he erred) but he still read it, having presumably purchased it.

]]> By: Ed H. https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3745847 Ed H. Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:12:40 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3745847 Brunner, not Blish. I knew that. Sorry.

]]> By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3745638 Isegoria Sat, 01 Mar 2025 19:00:20 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3745638 Stand on Zanzibar was by John Brunner. Apparently James Blish was not a fan. He said “I disliked everybody in it and I was constantly impeded by the suspicion that Brunner was not writing for himself but for a Prize.”

]]> By: Ed H. https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3745632 Ed H. Sat, 01 Mar 2025 15:50:43 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3745632 In an old James Blish novel (Stand on Zanzibar?) a character uses this to take over a country.

Then, unsure of what to do next, he finds “The Prince” by Machiavelli.

]]> By: VXXC https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3727697 VXXC Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:43:57 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3727697 Isegoria,

The Palantir Reformation of DOD has begun. In truth their core accusation of being Disorganized Central Planners (Bad at being Commies) can be applied to far more of our managerialist class and government than DOD. Military types are just more motivated, because people kill us from time to time.

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]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3727568 Jim Tue, 17 Dec 2024 21:23:34 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3727568 That is true. And the courts are ruled by the bar. And the bar is ruled by…?

]]> By: Bomag https://www.isegoria.net/2024/12/while-everything-is-stabilized-you-go-and-arrest-all-the-political-leaders-that-could-challenge-you/comment-page-1/#comment-3727505 Bomag Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:20:27 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52352#comment-3727505 We’re now, largely, ruled by the courts; the modern coupster now packs the courts and prosecution.

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