Thursday, February 17, 2022

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"Un-vaxxed sperm is the next Bitcoin."

From sign at Ottawa anti-mandate protest.

"To the really committed communists in academe it is not so much whiteness that they hate, but the institutions of Western civilization.  After all, many of them are white themselves like their ideological godfather Gramsci.  Since the institutions of Western civilization are mostly the work of white men ('dead white males,' as the cultural Marxists sneeringly call them), it is necessary to wage a crusade against white males as symbols of Western civilization, just as the Nazis crusaded against Jews as symbols of capitalism, as F.A. Hayek explains in The Road to Serfdom."

Tom DiLorenzo

"The decision to go to war with China would be the single most important and consequential decision ever made in human history. You’d have to weigh it against millions to billions of deaths. Defending Taiwan’s preference of government clearly wouldn’t weigh enough to justify that cost."

Caitlin Johnstone

"There’s almost no defense of the ideas that brought us Western Civilization, which is responsible for just about everything that’s good in the world. I’m not kidding when I make that assertion. With the exception of a few anomalies like Taoism, martial arts, yoga, and Oriental cooking, East minus West equals zero. Without it, the whole world would resemble Africa, Cambodia, or Mongolia—not even today, but 200 years ago. Ideas like individualism, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, science, rationality, and capitalism are products of Western Civilization. These concepts no longer have any defenders anywhere. They’re under attack everywhere."

Doug Casey

"I’m indulging in a shameless bit of broad-brush painting here: hunters, fishers, and those who populate the Great Outdoors in general are he-men. They eat commies for breakfast, laugh at weather that sends lesser folks scurrying inside, and subsist on really gross food as they track Moby Dick through the woods. Or water. Whatever.

I don’t see any of these dudes cowering in fear of COVIDCon. Indeed, I imagine them on the front lines, fighting the Marxists in the upcoming Revolution." 

Becky Akers

"The progress of the New World Order parallels the psychodrama of dehumanization in the Western world. The dehumanization process clearly reveals the evolution of collectivism in America. They want us to have no memory, no will to resist, no interest in our own fate and least of all any interest in preserving liberty,

The need to conceal evil is becoming less necessary as the American people themselves continue to become more passive. Democracy is all about the transformation of human beings to the animal farm of mass mental brutalization where they are conditioned to defend their worst betrayers."

Bob Livingston

"Virology equals 'how to spread bullshit for a living and scare the world and lock it down and shoot it up with a devastating destructive vaccine.' Other than that, it’s perfect."

Jon Rappoport

"Perhaps most disturbing are the symbolic effects when millions of Americans dutifully wear masks based on flimsy evidence provided by deeply unimpressive people. Facelessness--the lack of individual identity, personality, and looks-- is inherently dehumanizing and dystopian. Like prison or military uniforms, masks reduce our personal characteristics. Mask are muzzles, symbols of rote acquiescence to an ugly new normal nobody asked for or voted for."

Jeff Deist

"The fundamental social phenomenon is the division of labor and its counterpart — human cooperation.

Experience teaches man that cooperative action is more efficient and productive than isolated action of self-sufficient individuals. The natural conditions determining man's life and effort are such that the division of labor increases output per unit of labor expended. These natural facts are:

1) The innate inequality of men with regard to their ability to perform various kinds of labor, and

2) The unequal distribution of the nature-given, nonhuman opportunities of production on the surface of the earth. One may as well consider these two facts as one and the same fact, namely, the manifoldness of nature which makes the universe a complex of infinite varieties."

Ludwig von Mises

"A rhetorical question: Does Bill Gates believe that our planet cannot sustain a growing population — and therefore, he has to step in and do something about it in order to prevent a total collapse of the human civilization (because he is the man for the job)? Does he believe himself to be a saint and a savior?

Short answer: I don’t care whether Bill Gates self-identifies as a saint or a villain. Regardless of whether he believes himself to be a successful saint or a successful villain, he has no legitimate business in my relationship with the world — and while his mindset and his wealth allow him to de facto impose his vision with force, he remains an intruder as far as I am concerned, and I don’t want to comply with his vision of my future.

Technocrats may think they are the cream of the crop. They may think that their brilliant vision is good for the world. But regardless of whether they believe themselves to be the good guys or the bad guys, their thirst for total control is a pathological, anxiety-driven expression. They can’t stand being dependent on other people’s free will, and so they aspire to squash it, which is not existentially right."

Tessa Lena

"There are also about 175,000 active duty U.S. troops overseas in over 170 countries and territories. World War II ended in 1945, and yet the United States still maintains tens of thousands of troops in Germany and Japan.

Why not abandon all foreign military bases, bring all of the troops home (not just the ones in Afghanistan), and stop policing the world? And while we’re at it, turn over all of the DOD golf courses in Japan to the Japanese.

The U.S. global empire of bases and troops is unnecessary to the defense of the United States, a global force for evil, and a drain on U.S. taxpayers. It’s only purpose is to carry out an imperialistic, militaristic, reckless, belligerent, and meddling U.S. foreign policy that is not in the interest of the American people."

Laurence Vance

"To my ear, the term 'culture of enterprise' suggests a society that possesses a conscious appreciation of the distinct virtues of the market economy, some of which I have described here, and why it is morally and materially superior to statist alternatives, as I have also described here. In other words, the points I have made in my remarks today are the kind of arguments that should resonate with and constitute important pillars for a culture of enterprise. Instead of being held up for condemnation and abuse, entrepreneurs in such a society would be respected and honored for the risks they assume with their own property in order to bring improvement to people's lives, from the latest technological innovation to the most mundane of necessities. For a true culture of enterprise to last, people must see in the unhampered market economy not merely the least intolerable system but a positive good, in which living standards consistently rise, human creativity is given free rein, and human interaction proceeds on the civilized basis of respect for others' person and property."

Tom Woods

"Liberals keep scratching where it doesn’t itch and go out of their way to scratch an itch. When same-sex marriages were recognized by the Supreme Court, they turned on a dime to take up transgender rights with equal passion. In the progressive permanent war, there’s always one more river to cross."

F.H. Buckley

"One could make the case that the military had a legitimate function in previous periods of American history marked by more restrained governance, but those eras have long passed. Now the military is a blunt instrument used to realize the geopolitical fantasies of a parasitic foreign policy class that faces little to no consequences for its misdeeds. As if the military’s role in serving as a battering ram for a decadent ruling class weren’t enough, its becoming a laboratory for woke social experiments should make any sane person strongly reconsider their blind attachment to the armed forces."

Jose Nino

"When they say: 'Who do you think you are to sit there and announce your ideas to the world as if anyone should care?'

I say: 'Nothing less than who you thought you were when you gave yourself the permission to challenge me.'

The world is free to criticize you, but that doesn't mean you need the permission of critics to speak.

The world has the right to hate your work, but that doesn't mean your work has to wait until they promise to love you.

We each have the fundamental right to show up as we are, to speak as we believe, and to state our case for the kind of world we want to live in. 

I cannot respect your right to disagree without respecting my right to be me.

What's good for the critic is also good for the creator."

T.K. Coleman

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play."

Joseph Goebbels


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