Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:
"Figuring out how our expectations for normal life were so violently foiled, how our happy lives were brutally crushed, will consume serious intellectuals for many years. But at least we now have a first draft of history. As with most every revolution in history, a small minority of crazy people with a cause prevailed over the humane rationality of multitudes. When people catch on, the fires of vengeance will burn very hot
The task now is to rebuild a civilized life that is no longer so fragile as to allow insane people to lay waste to all that humanity has worked so hard to build."
George Gilder
"Opposing this new domestic War on Terror and all those new powers and secrecy authorities that go with it does not require support for or even indifference toward what happened at the Capitol on January 6. It merely requires a basic knowledge of recent U.S. history and how these powers are invariably used by the secretive U.S. security state when government-generated fears lead to their widespread enactment. The dangers of the first War on Terror were grave enough. Transferring it to 'the Homeland,' as President Biden calls it, is bound to be far more dangerous still."
Glenn Greenwald
"The act of openly allowing rule negates any 'right' to be free. This should be completely obvious, but most have been instructed (indoctrinated) to believe just the opposite is true. It seems to me that voting was created simply to plant the seed of being ruled as desirable into the minds of the weak, as this selection process is wholly based on this premise. Any critical thinker would have to pause when accepting the attitude that choosing a ruler to lord over him is in his best interest, so why has humanity succumbed to the idea of servitude as normal and right? The only plausible answer to this question appears to be that this is the real nature of man, or that most common men are fools."
Gary D. Barnett
"Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship."
Voltairine de Cleyre
"May 8, 1945, and the Potsdam Agreement later that August, while representing the end of mankind’s worst land war and the (brief) triumph of a Pax Americana, foretold the eventual triumph of progressivist neo-Marxism and the demise of the 'American Century.' The Framers of the American Constitution in 1787 were not granted a divine guarantee that the confederation they cobbled together would last forever. It was, in the words of Benjamin Franklin, 'a republic if you can keep it.'
That republic has not been maintained. The time for dissolution and separation is at hand."
Boyd D. Cathey
"The goal of propaganda is often to create false word associations in the minds of the masses. The mainstream media constantly mentions 'white supremacists,' 'neo-nazis' and 'extremists' within the same articles they mention 'conservatives.' Though there is no evidence whatsoever to link the majority of conservatives with race identity groups, the hope within the establishment is that the conservative base in the U.S. can be dismantled through guilt by manufactured association.
Anyone who stands against the social justice mob is labeled 'white supremacist.' Therefore, all conservatives are white supremacists because the social justice cult controls who gets labeled. The social justice cult thus becomes the self-anointed arbiters of who gets canceled and who does not. See how that works?"
Brandon Smith
"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free."
Aldous Huxley
"Like the Apache Indians who could pick up their tents and move to water and food, the advantage goes to those who can make moves on the chessboard. The motor home is suddenly off the government radar.
The polarization is historical. Now will those freedom States take the obvious next step, come to their senses, and print their own money? When money is competitive, the more valued currency will prevail. Texas has the gold to do that. It appears the non-freedom States where people survive on a hand out, will be completely vaccinated, but wither on the vine. Location becomes a life and death decision.
The map to freedom lies with less government. Few realize the Federal government is a false proposition, a Ponzi scheme. Its current solution, now having been exposed for what it really is, is to eliminate people since it can’t live up to its promises.
And history will have been changed.
It started with a dream.
But only for those who made a move on the chessboard."
Bill Sardi
"Personal freedom is inversely proportional to governmental freedom. In other words, in whatever interest or matters one chooses not to self-govern, others will govern for you. But individuals are often happy to relinquish this responsibility for themselves in order to seem altruistic. It might even make them feel patriotic."
Bob Livingston
"Modernism is a poor cloak of age-old ignorance. Living in the 21st century is no guarantee that humans will not act as if they are in the 16th. Our modern-day inquisitors share the same anti-science fury as those who put Galileo under house arrest for the crime of Copernicanism. Claiming that 'white supremacists' are responsible for current epidemics of violence against Jews and Asian-Americans—when most data and evidence point, in the former case, to Hamas supporters, and, in the latter, most frequently to African-American males, is our version of institutionalized geocentrism."
Victor Davis Hanson
"Now, I do not agree with the balance of power intriguers in that morality or noble values should govern international relations, and not power. The U.S. has been following balance of power dreams since 1900 and now it faces economic ruin. These ideas do not work. There is no reason the U.S. cannot be a friend of Russia and China and the differences can be worked out. But you cannot get to first base as balance of power considerations dominate everything. That is the tragedy of our time."
Pepe Escobar
"So-called 'leftism' is not an ideology (how could it be? Its 'principles' change continually). Rather, it currently represents movement toward moral disorder. And leftists are morally disordered people, the worst of them being vice-ridden, amoral and driven by base appetites such as power lust. As I wrote in 'The Time for Talking with the Left is Long, Long Past,' perhaps the best way to prepare yourself for contending with them is to 'pretend you’re dealing with Satan.'
Vanguard leftists are above nothing and beneath contempt. If you read the worst possible intentions into whatever they do, you won’t too often go wrong."
Selwyn Duke
"It’s a pity that [GW] Bush, when he was in office, made such a big deal of evil. He discredited the concept. He made Boobus americanus think it only existed in a distant axis, in places like North Korea, Iraq and Iran, which were and still are irrelevant backwaters and arbitrarily chosen enemies. Bush trivialized the concept of evil and made it seem banal because he was such a fool. All the while, real evil, very immediate and powerful, was growing right around him, and he lacked the awareness to see he was fertilizing it by turning the U.S. into a national security state after 9/11.
Now, I believe, it’s out of control. The U.S. is already in a truly major depression and on the edge of financial chaos and a currency meltdown. The sociopaths in government will react by redoubling the pace toward a police state domestically and starting a major war abroad. To me, this is completely predictable. It’s what sociopaths do."
Doug Casey
"He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once."
Albert Einstein
"Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in favor of letting them crawl and grovel all they please before whatever fraud or combination of frauds they choose to venerate…Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer."
H. L. Mencken
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