Tag: personal responsibility

Muck’s Minute #26

There isn’t any equality in anything

I’d like to tell everyone -the world if I could – that is no equality in anything short of extreme scientific comparisons of like atoms to a very fine scale.

Beyond that, we’re screwed as far as “equality” is concerned.  It’s a myth.  A human construct. A concept that is totally fucked up by unequal intellectual cognition and mumbling that passes for thought and a sorry and destructive (and political) effort to mash every living being with two legs, two arms, a head and the questionable ability to perhaps scratch his ass – excluding those of us who didn’t make the cut out of the tree yet –  into the same “equal” bucket…..

The what-used-to-be useful U.S.Constitution made a big semantic mistake with that phrase, “All men are created equal.”  They could not foresee in 240 years that there would be a thing called “political correctness” or that large numbers of citizens would turn into drones, neither understanding what they meant or care about it and our government would evolve into a politically correct group that throws common sense and human sensibilities in the trash.

It is readily ascertainable that no one is created equal.. Even identical twins are not “equal” in all respects.  I’m white, he’s brown, she’s red, he’s black and even a slight shade of yellow is present here and there and growing fast.  There are people of all those different colors with I.Q.’s from near zip-squat to 150 or more – scattered out it a bell curve with some races enjoying a better shape of the bell curve than others.  Some are tall, others short, some broad and muscular, some skinny, some are male and some are female and some don’t have a clue what they are or are of some odd, in between, sexual status.

But “equal” it’s not.  Never. Ever. No how. No way.

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THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA – 2011

Written in September 2011 when I still believed the country could be saved. My passion has dimmed considerably over the last five years. Libertarianism does not work during a Fourth Turning. Maybe after the death and destruction wrought by those in control, people will come to their senses. And maybe not.

 

 

“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Though the Federal Reserve policy harms the average American, it benefits those in a position to take advantage of the cycles in monetary policy. The main beneficiaries are those who receive access to artificially inflated money and/or credit before the inflationary effects of the policy impact the entire economy. Federal Reserve policies also benefit big spending politicians who use the inflated currency created by the Fed to hide the true costs of the welfare-warfare state.” – Ron Paul

Ernest Hemingway and Ron Paul never met. Ron Paul was completing medical school in 1961 when Hemingway committed suicide at his home in Idaho. I think they would have hit it off. I stumbled across the quote from Hemingway above. Those words could have come directly out of the mouth of Ron Paul. Both men spent their whole lives seeking the truth and presenting their ideas in a blunt straightforward manner. Hemingway is one of the most renowned writers in American history, with classics such as A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Sun Also Rises to his credit.

He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He constructed a new literary style characterized by lean, hard, sparse dialogue. He influenced literature and young authors for decades. As a teenager I was immediately drawn to his gritty realistic novels. There was no nonsense to his novels. They always involved man’s struggle against death and hardship. Most of his best work was done in the 1920s and 1930s, but he produced one of his finest works in 1951 towards the end of his life. Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for his story about an epic battle between an old man and a great marlin.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

“To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society”.”

Thomas Sowell

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”

Anne Frank

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

Ronald Reagan

“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”

Steve Maraboli

 

 

 


QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”

Anne Frank

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

Stanisław Jerzy Lec

“This isn’t just ‘the way things are.’ This is the way you made them. This is the result of your choices, your actions. Yours.”

Andrew Klavan, Empire of Lies

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”

J.K. Rowling

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

Confucius

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

Ronald Reagan

“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”

Steve Maraboli

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
― Anne Frank

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
― Stanisław Jerzy Lec

“There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
― Confucius

“…the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.”
“…a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”
― Steve Maraboli

“As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation