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2024-08-30 15:06:52

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2024-08-23 11:41:17

“If people would but understand that they are not the sons of some fatherland or other, nor of governments, but are sons of God, and can therefore neither be slaves nor enemies one to another, those insane, unnecessary, worn-out, pernicious organisations called governments, and all the sufferings, violations, humiliations, and crimes which they occasion, would cease.”
— Leo Tolstoy, Patriotism & Government (1900)
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2024-08-16 14:58:26

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2024-08-15 09:54:20

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2024-08-14 15:28:53

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2024-08-13 14:16:47

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2024-08-12 11:25:22

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2024-08-12 11:14:50

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2024-08-08 14:13:00

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2024-08-08 14:05:54

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2024-08-08 11:10:09

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2024-08-06 14:10:14

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2024-08-06 14:07:48

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2024-08-05 14:30:17

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2024-08-05 14:23:35

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2024-08-02 14:44:34

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2024-08-02 14:41:23

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2024-08-01 14:33:03

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2024-07-30 10:38:21

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2024-07-30 10:27:12

“The most powerful stream of water cannot add one single drop to a vessel that is already full. One might succeed in explaining to the dullest of men the most difficult of problems, if he had no previous conception in regard to them; but it is impossible to explain to the cleverest man even the simplest matters, if he is perfectly sure that he knows everything about it.”
— Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)
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2024-07-19 08:53:26

“We don’t need a majority, we need an alternative.”
— Michael Malice
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2024-07-18 13:09:48

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2024-07-18 09:14:05

“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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2024-07-18 08:54:16

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2024-07-17 13:23:22

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2024-07-17 13:16:43

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2024-07-17 13:14:37

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2024-07-15 16:46:50

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2024-07-15 13:08:01

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2024-07-04 18:33:07

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2024-07-04 14:33:06

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2024-06-28 13:11:49

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2024-06-28 13:08:16

“It took millions of people. It took people working behind the scenes; people protesting on the streets; for days, and weeks, and months, and years... And we achieved it.”
— Stella Assange
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2024-06-26 16:33:17

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2024-06-26 13:18:36

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2024-06-26 13:18:10

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2024-06-26 13:15:27

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2024-06-25 12:38:03

“Free Assange. Free us all.”
— Stella Assange
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2024-06-14 15:21:47

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2024-06-14 15:19:26

“War exists because people wish it to exist.”
— Aldous Huxley, Ends & Means (1937)
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2024-06-13 16:11:11

“But liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near-war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of the central government.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q

2024-06-12 16:20:11

“To me, what really matters, first and foremost, is the issue of war and peace. That’s always been my biggest issue. I genuinely don’t understand, from any political, ideological perspective, how that’s not the most important issue: if you’re a left-winger, and the basic, fundamental building block of your philosophy is that power dynamics can be abusive, and you want to be on the side of the people with less power [against] those who wield it over them — well, there’s no better example of that than war; if you’re a libertarian, and you care about government violating people’s rights — well, there’s no better example of that than war; and if you’re a right-winger, who cares about your nation and order, and things like this — well, there’s nothing more destructive to nations and order than war.”
— Dave Smith
https://youtu.be/h1Na3J5GLyg?si=iTuI3MztgSRhXJxz

2024-06-11 14:06:45

“[Corporate] journalists are war criminals.”
— Julian Assange
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2024-06-10 15:37:26

“I don’t actually believe in the phrase ‘war crimes’. As far as I’m concerned all war is crime.”
— Peter Hitchens
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2024-05-31 15:09:20

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2024-05-30 16:41:49

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love [only] those who love you, what reward have you?”
― Matthew 5:43-46
https://youtu.be/2hvGMfFYavY?si=oy3vI42mBUBSMamh

2024-05-29 16:47:14

“In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.”
― Montesquieu
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2024-05-29 16:38:47

“Man matures when he stops believing that politics solves his problems.”
― Nicolás Gómez Dávila
https://youtu.be/kTkBCx3gKpc?si=QJIXsgrUlzATsh6N

2024-05-29 16:33:31

“Political tags ― such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth ― are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
https://youtu.be/2UNIjJrUtiE?si=8uGKSfiJDnAi_koj

2024-05-28 18:33:04

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
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2024-05-24 14:41:00

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2024-05-24 14:19:46

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2024-05-23 16:40:22

“The absence of a transcendent dimension in secular society weakens this social contract in which each supposedly limits his or her freedom in order to live in peace with others. Such universalism of interest is another aspect of modern illusion. There is no such thing as scientifically based human solidarity. I can convince myself that it is in my interest not to rob other people, not to rape and murder, because I can convince myself that the risk is too great. This is the Hobbesian model of solidarity: greed moderated by fear. But social chaos stands in the shadows of such moral anarchy. When society adheres to moral norms for no other reason than prudence, it is extremely weak and its fabric tears at the slightest crisis. In such a society, there is no basis for personal responsibility, charity or compassion. We need instruments of human solidarity that are not based on our own instincts, self-interest or on force. The communist attempt to institutionalize solidarity ended in disaster.”
— Leszek Kołakowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8PeSvLSF-Y

2024-05-23 16:33:04

“Traditionalism is the most revolutionary ideology of our times.”
— Julius Evola
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2024-05-22 16:18:59

“We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy.”
— Bertrand Russell
https://youtu.be/RihkTmMuHUk?si=HBBNCpUXhKctzxhB

2024-05-22 16:07:56

“It is instructive to inquire why it is that the State, in contrast to the highwayman, invariably surrounds itself with an ideology of legitimacy, why it must indulge in all the hypocrisies that Spooner outlines. The reason is that the highwayman is not a visible, permanent, legal, or legitimate member of society, let alone a member with exalted status. He is always on the run from his victims or from the State itself. But the State, in contrast to a band of highwaymen, is not considered a criminal organization; on the contrary, its minions have generally held the positions of highest status in society. It is a status that allows the State to feed off its victims while making at least most of them support, or at least be resigned to, this exploitative process. In fact, it is precisely the function of the State’s ideological minions and allies to explain to the public that the Emperor does indeed have a fine set of clothes. In brief, the ideologists must explain that, while theft by one or more persons or groups is bad and criminal, that when the State engages in such acts, it is not theft but the legitimate and even sanctified act called ‘taxation.’ The ideologists must explain that murder by one or more persons or groups is bad and must be punished, but that when the State kills it is not murder but an exalted act known as ‘war’ or ‘repression of internal subversion.’ They must explain that while kidnapping or slavery is bad and must be outlawed when done by private individuals or groups, that when the State commits such acts it is not kidnapping or slavery but ‘conscription’ — an act necessary to the public weal and even to the requirements of morality itself. The function of the statist ideologists is to weave the false set of Emperor’s clothes, to convince the public of a massive double standard: that when the State commits the gravest of high crimes it is really not doing so, but doing something else that is necessary, proper, vital, and even — in former ages — by divine command. The age-old success of the ideologists of the State is perhaps the most gigantic hoax in the history of mankind. Ideology has always been vital to the continued existence of the State, as attested by the systematic use of ideology since the ancient Oriental empires. The specific content of the ideology has, of course, changed over time, in accordance with changing conditions and cultures. In the Oriental despotisms, the Emperor was often held by the Church to be himself divine; in our more secular age, the argument runs more to ‘the public good’ and the ‘general welfare.’ But the purpose is always the same: to convince the public that what the State does is not, as one might think, crime on a gigantic scale, but something necessary and vital that must be supported and obeyed.”
— Murray Rothbard, The Ethics of Liberty (1982)
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2024-05-21 14:09:46

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2024-05-18 14:54:55

Monday could be a pivotal moment in history — whichever way it goes.
https://youtu.be/Xn16XUxnxk0?si=eUPuF4gD1QhPiIe3

2024-05-17 16:00:18

“The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
― Charles Baudelaire
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2024-05-16 18:24:43

“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
— Ephesians 6:10-12
https://youtu.be/J57iw408PFk?si=-FkgMysia7N0y8t4

2024-05-15 16:26:54

“Maybe there’s more to life than ordering shit from Amazon.”
— Tucker Carlson
https://youtu.be/UNIx3GcYh1g?si=h8Yjk2SJUhvSgToB

2024-05-14 17:16:38

“Men’s hearts are failing them for fear, not knowing any longer where to rest. We look this way and that way, and catch at one another like drowning men. Go where you will, you find the same phenomena. Science grows, and observers are adding daily to our knowledge of the nature and structure of the material universe, but they tell us nothing, and can tell us nothing, of what we most want to know. They cannot tell us what our own nature is. They cannot tell us what God is, or what duty is. We had a belief once, in which, as in a boat, we floated safely on the unknown ocean; but the philosophers and critics have been boring holes in the timbers to examine the texture of the wood, and now it leaks at every one of them. We have to help ourselves in the best way that we can.”
― James Anthony Froude
https://youtu.be/dK80v17Fkcw?si=w640gMyN_3Nf3Tgd

2024-05-13 16:31:26

“If human beings were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it. For the individual termite, service to the termitary is perfect freedom. But human beings are not completely social; they are only moderately gregarious. Their societies are not organisms, like the hive or the anthill; they are organizations, in other words ad hoc machines for collective living... Without freedom, human beings cannot become fully human.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
https://youtu.be/tKIaSgD0Ovk?si=43alJ3BLI2s0UivH

2024-05-10 18:21:20

I’ve recently been making a concerted effort to watch as many things as I can around the subject of Christ as a part of my recent interest and desire to adopt his ― or rather His ― teachings (along with any and all reading I can do). One of the film’s that I was reminded of was Martin Scorsese’s Silence, based on a novel from a Japanese Christian. The story follows two Portuguese priests as they smuggle themselves into Japan ― during a time when Christianity was outlawed and anyone caught preaching it or professing their belief in it was forced to apostatise else be tortured and executed ― in search of their old mentor who has reportedly denounced the Christian God publicly during his own mission there.
I believe I would most effectively convey the essential essence of the film by describing it as a Christian’s 1984. For in a similar manner to Winston whereby his determination to never stop loving Julia is subverted through physical and psychological torture, the foreign priests undergo such a torture of their own determination to never stop loving and thus imitating Christ ― and with similar results (I was reminded of Huxley’s discussion of conditioning by physical torture and terrorism in Brave New World Revisited, namely by the Chinese communists ― a collection of writings I would recommend anyone read, even in lieu of having read Brave New World). Like what made O’Brien’s torture of Winston so sinister being that he did, however unexpectedly, ultimately succeed in getting him to genuinely lose his love for Julia, and irreversibly, by getting him to give her up and beg, genuinely, for her to take his place in Room 101, subsequently replacing his love for her with a love of Big Brother (“We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves”), so too does the Japanese inquisitor succeed in getting the foreign priests to lose their faith, replacing it with their own; but in their case by turning the Christian ideals of protecting others from suffering and putting oneself in their place, as a martyr if necessary, in on itself: by torturing, killing, and martyring others ― rather than the priests themselves, as they would come to have expected, accepted, even wanted (for it is the ultimate imitation of Christ) ― according to their willingness or unwillingness to apostatise. This subversive method of torture is quite the reversal, a turning inside-out, of the story of Christ’s crucifixion; and it is this that the foreign priests ― and we the audience ― have to wrestle with: is denouncing Christ in the name of imitating Christ in keeping with what Christ taught, or would have taught had he been the subject of such devilishly intelligent methods of torture? One finds themselves inevitably asking ― of course ― “What would Jesus do?”
As much as Christ’s sacrifice was a trial (superbly, gruesomely ― the most gruesome thing I’ve ever watched in fact ― reenacted in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ, which I also watched recently; although I am quite sure one does not need my testimony to consider watching that), the most brutal one anyone could undergo in the name of their faith, conviction, love for their friends, family, humanity, and so on, the trial that the foreign priests are subjected to is of a radically different, more sophisticated kind. It is more of a psychological trial than a physical one, for the physical torture that is being done is being done to someone else in one’s stead, and with one being denied what they would have come to have expected to be their opportunity for martyrdom in such circumstances completely throwing their moral calculation of what to do into disarray, this works to inflict on them an immensely powerful psychological torture (one which works by turning what they would have thought to be an impenetrable defence against such evil into a weapon against themselves ― a weapon of their own making). And this is the true evil of the “mind-manipulation” ― to borrow Huxley’s phrase ― employed by the inquisitor. While Christ’s crucifixion is a demonstration, through all of its gore and barbarity and inhumanity, of the ultimate act of love and glory and triumph as Christians conceive of it (in non-violently resisting tyranny by using the horrific torture and murder of one’s own body, as Christ did, as a symbolic example in order that no one else has to experience such a fate ― but also to force the perpetrators to grapple with, morally, the horrors they are inflicting or supporting being inflicted on a defenceless man ― in the hopes that such defiant love will overcome the hate that seeks to destroy its physical embodiments; an equally subversive psychological tool, but of the best, most positive kind, that has been employed by every pacifist and every pacifist movement since the time of Christ), martyring oneself is much easier for one to wrap one’s head around, wrestle with, come to accept, than the martyring of others in the name of one’s commitments, one’s principles, even one’s faith and commitment to God (hence the inquisitor’s ultimate success). And honestly, had it been Jesus facing such a trial, I believe that Christ would have apostatised too if it meant preventing the suffering of those who followed him; whether or not one agrees with me (or the priests) is up for debate, but that is the moral dilemma the film leaves us with once the credits roll.
With all that said, I would highly recommend the film, Christian or not ― it is a fascinating analysis of morality, evil, and the human condition. I endeavour to read the book when I can.
https://youtu.be/IqrgxZLd_gE?si=f5IB9-aTdOHEkmLh

2024-05-10 14:42:04

“War is not a law of nature, nor even a law of human nature. It exists because men wish it to exist; and we know, as a matter of historical fact, that the intensity of that wish has varied from absolute zero to a frenzied maximum. The wish for war in the contemporary world is widespread and of high intensity. But our wills are to some extent free; we can wish otherwise than we actually do. It is enormously difficult for us to change our wishes in this matter; but the enormously difficult is not the impossible. We must be grateful for even the smallest crumbs of comfort.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends & Means (1937)
https://youtu.be/oxGSfOd1Dpc?si=7Ik0wTmC88HO4ZxX

2024-05-09 19:32:10

“Silence is the end of the world.”
― Albert Camus, Neither Victims nor Executioners (1946)
https://youtu.be/Y8cmgwe6I8k?si=ldmwQvC9ay3_yOM5

2024-05-09 19:05:53

“It is strange that science ― which in the old days seemed harmless ― should have evolved into a nightmare that causes everyone to tremble.”
― Albert Einstein
https://youtu.be/8R0PRhc7qvI?si=yrzjOPhL0L5xt_90

2024-05-08 17:44:07

“Every road towards a better state of society is blocked, sooner or later, by war, by threats of war, by preparations for war. That is the truth, the odious and inescapable truth, that emerges, plain for all to see.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends & Means (1937)
https://youtu.be/wmP3MBjsx20?si=0gbfbdSsJompiysL

2024-05-07 15:25:01

“Such is the world in which we find ourselves ― a world which, judged by the only acceptable criterion of progress, is manifestly in regression. Technological advance is rapid. But without progress in charity, technological advance is useless. Indeed, it is worse than useless. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
― Aldous Huxley, Ends & Means (1937)
https://youtu.be/-FHaA7PN52c?si=PzTO3gARym1LCpWK

2024-05-03 19:47:00

I am not big fan of World War II films. Especially not action war films (they have been largely done to death, become saturated, unoriginal). For me to be interested it must be something more grounded, focused, limited in its scope, bottom-up rather than top-down, more about the emotionality and morality than the spectacle (which is more often than not all that it is — superficial, hollow, skin-deep, unimaginative, lazy, without any interest in the nuance that characterises any human being and therefore any human historical event).
The Zone of Interest represents such an exception to the rule of World War II films, in my view. I would describe it as surreal horror. Surreal in its banal treatment (by design) of one of if not the most inhuman events in human history; horror in that not a single one of the characters (of whom are all staff or family members of staff working at Auschwitz) is repulsed, horrified, or remotely disturbed by the events taking place just over a wall from them (the goings on being audible at all times throughout the film, but never visible); the entire event — the extermination (or attempted extermination) of an entire people — is treated as a benign backdrop to their happy family lives and promising career prospects; as a matter of fact rather than something to investigate morally in any way (there seems to have been a definite cascading psychological effect on Germans from first using Zyklon-B to bug bomb factories before it was used on humans). And this to me is a more accurate portrayal of what life was like for the average German at the time (dispelling the myth that the average person knew nothing of the camps): not anxious, unsettled, disquieted, or merely tolerating the goings on around them — for fear of the tyranny that might come their way instead — but gradually having come to accept it, to adapt to it, to pay it no mind, to blend it into the otherwise monotonous scenery of everyday life, it eventually becoming as banal as everything that envelopes it (in fact the thing that first attracted me to the film was that it reminded me of the weird photo albums and footage of life for staff at the camps; smiles, picnics, bike rides, pretty dresses, crisp uniforms — only a few hundred yards from a death factory, mass graves).
All this is to say that I would recommend the film. Highly recommend it. It is a slow burn. A very monotonous one at that. But that is where the true horror lies. As Hannah Arendt put it in Eichmann in Jerusalem, “Conscience as such had apparently got lost in Germany, and lost to a point where people hardly remembered it and had ceased to realize that the surprising ‘new set of German values’ was not shared by the outside world... In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm.”
https://youtu.be/GFNtVaAuVYY?si=7HDfA87Ya7b-Wfiu

2024-05-03 15:11:02

“God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of humans are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with the quacks and organizers! Away with their rings, chains, hooks and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! And, now that the legislators and do-gooders have so futilely inflicted so many systems upon society, may they finally end where they should have begun: may they reject all systems, and try liberty; for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”
― Frédéric Bastiat, The Law (1850)
https://youtu.be/d2uyH6cMNb4?si=ZsXEUc8I1b6bxVx0

2024-05-02 14:34:21

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2024-05-02 14:27:42

“Most of the people in our foreign policy conversation... are violence worshippers; they get off on war; they get off on hurting people; and on the power that that imbues them with... The more broken they are inside the more focused they are on war and foreign policy because it gives them a feeling of power and strength and success; like, ‘I can’t get my wife to respect me, I can’t get my kids to listen to me, I can’t pass any meaningful domestic agenda, but what I can do is bomb the living shit out of a foreign country.’”
— Tucker Carlson
https://youtu.be/0pwlFWtfX10?si=hhkdHcaIcBsn_qGz

2024-05-01 15:03:12

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https://youtu.be/coDW4GKL0yc?si=M7mcgPCyUzNGNw_V

2024-05-01 14:59:29

“Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. In war it serves that we may poison and mutilate each other. In peace it has made our lives hurried and uncertain. Instead of freeing us in great measure from spiritually exhausting labor, it has made men into slaves of machinery, who for the most part complete their monotonous long day’s work with disgust and must continually tremble for their poor rations... [And] it is not enough that you should understand about applied science in order that your work may increase man’s blessings. Concern for the man himself and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavours... in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind.”
— Albert Einstein
https://youtu.be/DfTU5LA_kw8?si=SSPm0EorspLy3L8E

2024-04-30 14:13:49

“With neocons I always feel like their slogan is: ‘I forgot the question but the answer is war.’”
— Cenk Uygur
https://youtu.be/r50SNwrvhLU?si=3-JcYPYIW4hzZujZ

2024-04-29 15:30:16

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https://youtu.be/ZtgXWbmczGM?si=8yS7aIylgV_izWEw

2024-04-26 14:50:10

“The Anarchists are right in everything... They are mistaken only in thinking that anarchy can be instituted by a violent revolution... Dynamite and the dagger, as experience has already shown, only cause reaction, and destroy the most valuable power, the only one at our command, that of public opinion.”
— Leo Tolstoy, On Anarchy (1900)
https://youtu.be/aqnDvhI6kg4?si=6QPz_3FR2DQh-A93

2024-04-26 14:40:02

“Anthropologists may get killed; but anthropology goes on; and in the long run it can’t fail to succeed. Whereas your entomological approach... It may succeed at the beginning; you can generally frighten and overawe people into submission. That’s to say that, by treating them as bugs, you can generally make them behave like bugs — crawl and scuttle to cover. But the moment they have the opportunity, they’ll turn on you. The anthropologist may get killed while establishing his first contacts; but after that, he’s safe; he’s a man among men. The entomologist may start by being safe; but he’s a bug-hunter among bugs — among bugs, what’s more, who resent being treated as bugs, who know they aren’t bugs. His bad quarter of an hour comes later on. It’s the old story: you can do everything with bayonets except sit on them.”
— Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
https://youtu.be/8eyuHdINM68?si=cNwCIGE-0HQ4U5kn

2024-04-25 14:31:14

“The Anarchists are right in everything.”
— Leo Tolstoy, On Anarchy (1900)
https://youtu.be/oiiRtyzJnMw?si=wQozjSdIFCbFWIvx

2024-04-22 15:23:44

“[How do you get rid of Hamas?] Get rid of the reasons that created Hamas.”
— Bassem Youssef
https://rumble.com/v4q1iv2-watch-the-israel-iran-and-palestine-debate.html

2024-04-19 15:02:09

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https://youtu.be/c45e2bFmyYo?si=U5cAvwLVw6Ws3Kj9

2024-04-19 14:49:06

“We do not defend Christ. It is Christ who defends us.”
— Mar Mari Emmanuel
https://youtu.be/8YjBw-th_Vs?si=gnUVMrWlb9yadR7F

2024-04-19 14:46:41

“When you go to Heaven and you meet Jesus face-to-face... [and then] you come back to Earth — who cares about a president, about Anthony Fauci, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, and the likes; who cares?”
— Mar Mari Emmanuel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGISqbiVfBY&t=4754s

2024-04-18 15:16:59

“But can you picture Jesus, with a machine-gun in his hand, blowing someone’s stomach out? Of course not.”
— Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
https://youtu.be/K4xQaDDKY7k?si=uWieHdAle7_3AeTc

2024-04-18 14:47:26

“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
— Milton Friedman
https://youtu.be/hnE79Arhf1A?si=fRiM1r55r9yqSDIE

2024-04-17 14:54:36

“If the Church stays silent in the face of what is happening, what difference would it make if no church were ever opened again?”
— Franz Jägerstätter
https://youtu.be/eHayOkXe5ig?si=mH0pUvvjnEdQ_jbE

2024-04-16 16:34:27

“‘You can only be independent of God while you’ve got youth and prosperity; independence won’t take you safely to the end.’ Well, we’ve now got youth and prosperity right up to the end. What follows? Evidently, that we can be independent of God. ‘The religious sentiment will compensate us for all our losses.’ But there aren’t any losses for us to compensate; religious sentiment is superfluous. And why should we go hunting for a substitute for youthful desires, when youthful desires never fail? A substitute for distractions, when we go on enjoying all the old fooleries to the very last? What need have we of repose when our minds and bodies continue to delight in activity? of consolation, when we have soma? of something immovable, when there is the social order?”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
https://youtu.be/gr4E0jEjQMM?si=Z2r_1kGwIsrVEKAs

2024-04-12 15:48:46

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https://youtu.be/eF-YDUa13VA?si=AVaF_kKzKJnZBh7N

2024-04-12 14:22:11

“The young people who now think so poorly of [liberty] may grow up to become fighters for freedom. The cry of ‘Give me television and hamburgers, but don’t bother me with the responsibilities of liberty,’ may give place, under altered circumstances, to the cry of ‘Give me liberty or give me death.’”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited (1958)
https://youtu.be/Pjh6L0BU5BU?si=Xek5E2RvhhJO2Hpf

2024-04-12 14:09:43

“I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.”
— Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
https://youtu.be/a7HUpc-jIiY?si=597gD3tpAUVmUeIE

2024-04-11 14:34:25

“The fundamental problem is practical — to work out systems of psychological exercises for all types of men and women. Catholicism has many systems of mental prayer — Ignatian, Franciscan, Liguorian, Carmelite and so on. Hinduism, Northern, Southern and Zen Buddhism also have a variety of practices. There is a great work to be done here. Collecting and collating information from all these sources. Consulting books and, more important, people who have actually practised what is in the books, have had experience of teaching novices. In time, it might be possible to establish a complete and definitive Ars Contemplativa. A series of techniques, adapted to every type of mind. Techniques for meditating on, communicating with and contemplating goodness. Ends in themselves and at the same time means for realizing some of that goodness in practice.”
— Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza (1936)
https://youtu.be/39gqXUNYmag?si=fNCg6yVhjk52SCRR