Voltaire by Houdon
Prejudice is an opinion without judgement. Thus all over Earth we inspire in children all the opinions we want before they become able to judge them.
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Voltaire by Houdon
Prejudice is an opinion without judgement. Thus all over Earth we inspire in children all the opinions we want before they become able to judge them.
The first rule of Fight Club is: Warner Brothers may send you a “cease and desist” letter if you do something Fight Club related.
I don’t intend to try to post stuff every day. I’ve been posting a lot of stuff because I’ve had time and stuff to say.
I may occasionally get busy and have work, house guests, travel days, whatever, and not post as much for a while. If that happens, don’t break out the champagne and canapes, yet, I’ll be back.
I’m assuming you’d rather I don’t post “I’m going to be blah blah blah Chicago blah blah” all the time. You don’t care about my personal life, nor should you. I just don’t want you to see me fall silent, start rejoicing, and then be bitterly crushed by disappointment.
Besides, I may fall silent long enough to write and publish “The Strategic Genius’ Guide to Dating ${preferred_gender}” It’ll depend on whether I can get Chuck Tingle to write the forward or not.
I am glad that the commentariat has moved past the “dead porcupine” stage.
On the subject of totalitarian impulses in today’s US, I am moved by the whole Gabby Douglas kerfuffle. As a mid-50s guy who would simply die if I contemplated gymnastics …
This is a good explanation of how economic unfairness is perpetuated. From Robert Paul Wolff, “Autobiography Of An Ex-White Man”
When does authoritarianism shift to totalitarianism?
Politically, authoritarianism is a system in which the state asserts its supreme power over a region, then uses that power to dictate rules and behaviors. There are a variety of authoritarianisms, including Stalinism, Maoism, Putinism, Fascism, Kimism, dictatorship, tyranny, aristocracy, monarchy and so forth.
We were sitting around in my kitchen, after I had just helped her make her first batch of soap. The room smelled of frankincense and we were eating pizza washed down with red wine.
Negligent, ambitious, and perverse princes are the real causes of public adversities, of useless and unjust wars continually
Jean Meslier
depopulating the earth, of greedy and despotic governments, destroying the benefactions of nature for men. The rapacity of the courts discourages agriculture, blots out industry, causes famine, contagion, misery; Heaven is neither cruel nor favorable to the wishes of the people; it is their haughty chiefs, who always have a heart of brass.