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"If you ever wish to punish some man, Phalaris, shut him up within the bull and lay a fire beneath it; by his groanings the bull will be thought to bellow and his cries of pain will give you pleasure as they come through the pipes in the nostrils." -Diodorus of Sicily During the past 150 years millions of human beings were scooped off the land and shoveled into the bellies of smoke-belching factories to make the Bull of Phalaris roar. -Eric Hoffer
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I realized I had placed this aphorism in a comment I made over at the Distributist Review.
Hi, I'm a friend of Harry Rodas. A while back I read this post. I was hoping to read it again, but can't seem to find it now. Do you have a link to your comment in the Distributist Review I could follow? Thank you!
Hi Olivia,
I haven't found the original comment I made over at the Distributist Review, but I did happen to include essentially the same comment in my short essay on Subsidiarity and First Things wherein I investigate the idea that some things are not as expedient as we sometimes think.
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