Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:
"The end of Roe v. Wade may end up emphasizing
the political and cultural divisions in America by forcing many Americans to
recognize that the United States is not one place. It is many places. This is
not a problem, however, if we relearn that rather than employ federal coercion
to 'solve' the world's problems, it's perhaps better to tolerate
others doing things differently in other parts of the world. On the other hand,
if Americans can't shake the idea that the regime must force one way of life on
everyone, we can expect national political divides to grow ever more bitter."
Ryan McMaken
"There are analogies to how governments are going to sneak away from the catastrophe of the last two years. It’s been a war on people, a war on reality, an attack on rights and liberties on a scale and scope that is without precedent in the modern age. None of it worked. Indeed, that is incredibly obvious now, and wholly humiliating and discrediting for vast swaths of the ruling class.
What’s
the exit strategy? There never has been one. As with the Iraq War and World War
I, governments stumbled into this mess with a wild and implausible conviction, sure
that bombs and blood would somehow force reality to conform to an apocalyptic dream.
It didn’t happen. Now governments need a way out."
Jeffrey Tucker
"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of."
Edward Bernays
"History shows us that vetting and preventing psychologically broken individuals from slipping into institutions that offer power is not so easy. In fact, many monarchies and empires were built on systems that allowed psychopaths and narcissists to flourish because they relied on genetic succession. If a monarch had a son who was predisposed to psychopathy, it did not matter, that mad prince would one day become a king and there was little that could be done about it. There was no vetting process. Also, many such traits are passed on genetically, which means a power structure built on heredity could become progressively more destructive as psychopaths in royalty intermarry.
The creation
of democracy and democratic republics was in part designed to help weed out aberrant
individuals using open elections and the voting process. In other words, let the
people scrutinize candidates and remove the crazies from circles of power. Unfortunately,
this doesn't work too well if all the candidates are psychopaths, and the
public has no real choice. Beyond that, psychopaths have also found ways to circumvent
the political process and control it without participating in it."
Brandon Smith
"The end goal [of the Covid scam] is something much darker than a dark-enough world in which everyone is coercively vaccinated, whether they are at risk or not, whether they have immunity or not, a world in which 'boosters' for seven billion people annually are guaranteed forever. The end-goal, rather, is to ensure that our pre-March 2020 world disappears forever, irretrievable. To be replaced with a world in which all human endeavor is behind a digital paywall, and in which all of us ask the permission of technology to gain access to the physical world, access to culture and access to other human beings.
The real goal has nothing to do with public health. The real goal is to destroy Western and human culture, and to replace it with a techno-fascistic culture—-a culture in which we have forgotten what human beings can do. The crime that was perpetrated during the pandemic years of 2020-22 was perhaps the greatest ever committed against humanity. And it is being perpetrated still."
Dr. Naomi Wolf
"That Washington and its despicable puppet states parade around like goody two shoes, shouting accusations at Russia when it is Washington and its puppets who are provoking war, and everyone falls for it tells me that Washington has the world on the road to nuclear Armageddon."
"Universalism and collectivism are by necessity systems of theocratic government. The common characteristic of all their varieties is that they postulate the existence of a superhuman entity which the individuals are bound to obey. What differentiates them from one another is only the appellation they give to this entity and the content of the laws they proclaim in its name. The dictatorial rule of a minority cannot find any legitimation other than the appeal to an alleged mandate obtained from a superhuman absolute authority. It does not matter whether the autocrat bases his claims on the divine rights of anointed kings or on the historical mission of the vanguard of the proletariat or whether the supreme being is called Geist (Hegel) or Humanite (Auguste Comte). The terms society and state as they are used by the contemporary advocates of socialism, planning, and social control of all the activities of individuals signify a deity. The priests of this new creed ascribe to their idol all those attributes which the theologians ascribe to God—omnipotence, omniscience, infinite goodness, and so on."
Ludwig von Mises
"The next three years in the US are guaranteed to be bad because the regime in Washington DC has exactly the same philosophical and psychological views as the Jacobins and Bolsheviks; they’re spiritual twins. The situation will likely persist for not just the next three years but for the rest of the decade or more. Why? Because several generations have been indoctrinated to believe what the authorities are doing is morally correct. And people like to do what they think is right, even if it causes a disaster.
Things
will get even worse when some 'strong man' presents himself in the US, promising
to kiss everything and make it better. He’ll need near-dictatorial powers to set
things aright, of course, and Boobus americanus will
clamor to hand them over."
Doug Casey
"We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN."
B.W. Powe
"The globalist plan is ancient: to absorb the West into the East, with no remnants of racial or religious identity remaining. You will evolve into nothing more than an expression of the state unless you shed their labels and use your own intellect to decipher the lies.
Collectivism
and altruism diminish individualism and transform the mind. Adolf Hitler used this
concept to manipulate the German people into false patriotism and self-sacrifice.
It will
be deja vu all over again unless you ask yourself, and answer honestly, can we
really be slaves and give our total allegiance to the state without being conscious
of it? Can we support the New World Order without awareness? Yes. Madness comes
without a label — it is time to wake up!!"
Bob Livingston
"We have
no more right to consume happiness without producing it then to consume wealth
without producing it."
George
Bernard Shaw