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and perhaps my all-time favorite quote ever:
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." (Thomas Jefferson)
those quotes are priceless too, as befits a philosopher-king.
with all the wise warnings we have had in plain sight, and the stirrings of intuition that the system is so seriously fucked up as to have made a crapshoot of some fine thing that should and could be honoured, instead of betrayed.
we just have to find our truths the hard way usually, but it's always worth trying to make it easier!
hopefully it's incremental, and we can eventually tip the scales back into balance, grain by grain.
thanks for your posts, folks, i couldn't think of what to say as a seed comment, the quotes had bereft me of words... how can we say again what has been said so elegantly already?
i keep hoping we will find a magic lever to lift off the burden of ignorance that keeps us acting against our own species' interests, how did we get so dumb?
descarte's split vision?
'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
if only... :) 'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty
And that system, along with its inevitable near genocide of the original nations of North America, is reckoned the better of the two political economies that the Louisiana Purchase helped sustain. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
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