“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Friday, January 24, 2020
Why Civilizations Collapse...Nature's Cure for Social Inequality
Civiliztions collapse because once a certain level of ease and prosperity is attained the moronic, immoral majority become besotted with CARNALITY, BANALITY, VENALITY, and MILITANT TRIVIALITY,
A communist experiences himself as simply an instrument whose function is to actualise a historical necessity. The people, the mythic people, whose instrument the totalitarian leader is, are never simply the actually existing individuals, groups of people and so on. It’s some kind of imagined idealised point of reference which works even when, for example in rebellions against the communist rule, like in Hungary 1956, when the large majority of actually resisting people raises up, is opposed to the regime. They can still say no, these are just individuals, they are not the true people. When you are accused of ‘My God, how could you have been doing all of these horrible things?’ You could have said and this is the standard Stalinist excuse, ‘Of course my heart bleeds for all the innocent victims, I am not responsible for it, I was only acting on behalf of the Big Other… As for myself, I like cats, small children, whatever’....
The way to undermine Stalinism is not simply to make fun of the leader. This can be, up to a point even tolerated. It is to undermine this very reference, mythic reference, which legitimises the Stalinist leader: the people. "Pervert's Guide to Ideology"
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When governments try to expand their mandate beyond combatting unjustifiable violence and fraud, they end up perpetuating and participating in both.
Government is a bad idea. Period.
Ozzy Osbourne, Nature's response to classical...
My GOD, Beamish! I believe that's the first SENSIBLE thing I've ever heard you say.
WOW! Good on ya, man.
Neverthelewss, I have to sa, GOVERNMENT is NOT the problem –– PEOPLE are.
Get rid of the people, and the probllems end will perish aolng with them.
It's just COMMON SENSE!
Civiliztions collapse because once a certain level of ease and prosperity is attained the moronic, immoral majority become besotted with CARNALITY, BANALITY, VENALITY, and MILITANT TRIVIALITY,
...and THAT's just their Governments.
The "Myth" of the "good people"...
A communist experiences himself as simply an instrument whose function is to actualise a historical necessity. The people, the mythic people, whose instrument the totalitarian leader is, are never simply the actually existing individuals, groups of people and so on. It’s some kind of imagined idealised point of reference which works even when, for example in rebellions against the communist rule, like in Hungary 1956, when the large majority of actually resisting people raises up, is opposed to the regime. They can still say no, these are just individuals, they are not the true people. When you are accused of ‘My God, how could you have been doing all of these horrible things?’ You could have said and this is the standard Stalinist excuse, ‘Of course my heart bleeds for all the innocent victims, I am not responsible for it, I was only acting on behalf of the Big Other… As for myself, I like cats, small children, whatever’....
The way to undermine Stalinism is not simply to make fun of the leader. This can be, up to a point even tolerated. It is to undermine this very reference, mythic reference, which legitimises the Stalinist leader: the people. "Pervert's Guide to Ideology"
Government is a bad idea. Period.
Dixit Ronnie Raygun.
Yawn, yawn and yawn.
If an incomeless billionaire (US 1 bn) was forced to speed $1,000 a day, it would take nearly 3 millennia to spend his fortune.
The Phoenix Fly that can be swatted, butcan't be killed, Alas! Returns to befoul the premises with his inmprehensible gibberish yet again.
PFUI!
Someone need to take that JOKER
and DISEMBOEL him with a red hot poker!
Looking at that Creepy Clown
Is really starting to get me down.
Ain't it past time to make a change,
And drive that creep far out of range?
The Phoenix Fly that can be swatted, butcan't be killed, [...]
It's Psi squared, you fool. A well-known symbol of quantum mechanics.
Do you get a bit of a hard-on thinking about killing me? I'd seek help if I were you, in that case.
o/t - Hope Brexit hasn't caused you any residency heart-burn.
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