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Happiness
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and everything you do, is for yourself – and there isn’t one.” Wei Wu Wei
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Pet Peeve 224
Seeing someone claim the unrequested opinion they just wrote as “IMHO” drives me crazy. Dude, when you’re spouting something no one asked your thoughts on, there is absolutely nothing humble about it. If you were truly humble you’d shut up … Continue reading
SPEAKING FREELY
The actions the Trump regime has taken against people who express opinions differing from the official party line reminds me of these words from the Clash tune “Know Your Rights.” You have the right to free speech as long as … Continue reading
POINT
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.” Aldous Huxley (1935)
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, civilization, politics, propaganda, society
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POLICY FAILURE
“Forty years of tax cuts for the super-rich have shown that a rising tide doesn’t lift all ships—just the superyachts.” — Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International.
Dreamtime
Once upon a time, there was a thing called The American Dream. If you grew up in the United States you were told all you had to do was work hard and you’d attain a level of affluence, comfort and … Continue reading
Control
“Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell
No Change
“It wasn’t that we were on the wrong side. We were the wrong side.” Daniel Ellsberg (talking about the Vietnam War)
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Tagged Kissinger was an ass, so was Nixon, superiority complex, Vietnam, war
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