This Blog is Abandoned

Just so anyone knows, this blog is pretty much dead.

I created a new one: here's the hyperlink.

Power Corrupts?

It is a truism of libertarians and conservatives of many stripes that "power corrupts, absolute power corrupt absolutely".

That quote by Lord Acton is pretty much their favorite quote of all time.

But Lord Acton and the libertarians got it backwards.

It's not that 'power corrupts', but that corrupt people seek power. (And sometimes succeed)

It's not that 'absolute power corrupts absolutely', but that absolutely corrupt people seek absolute power. (And sometimes succeed)

First Post Introduction

My name is Michael, this will be my first blog, and will be intended to be a personal one. I will be writing about various different things from work to fun. As a student of history, you might see a lot of posts of history too. Maybe also some posts on video games or whatnot and other fun stuff. This is not intended to be some sort of professional blog, I am simply writing for fun so you might see some interesting stuff, but it's not exactly aimed. I can get blunt and political at times, so my apologies if I ended up offending you.

The name Germanicus Remarks was actually just a random one I picked up. Germanicus was a reference to the Ancient Roman General and is my screen name. There's really no deep reasons why I chose his name, I just like him. Remarks referred to the fact that this blog will be intended to be a series of my remarks to the world.

I'm aiming to try to write on this blog as often as possible.