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QUOTES OF THE DAY
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.”
Arnold Toynbee
“There is no difference in principle… between the economic philosophy of Nazism, socialism, communism, and fascism and that of the American welfare state and regulated economy.”
Jacob G. Hornberger
“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. ‘I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.’ ‘I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.’ ‘Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy holding out both puppets!'”
Bill Hicks
“What governments call international monetary cooperation is concerted action for the sake of credit expansion.”
Ludwig von Mises
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“You have failed in your management. You have made a shambles of civilization. You have been blind and greedy. You have risen shamelessly in our legislative halls and declared that profits were impossible without the toil of children. It is in the records against you. You lulled your conscience to sleep with prattle of sweet ideals and dear moralities. You are fat with power and possession, drunken with success. You have failed in your management of society.”
Jack London, The Iron Heel
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”
Thomas Pynchon
“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. ‘I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.’ ‘I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.’ ‘Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy holding out both puppets!'”
Bill Hicks
“It is a dangerous notion that we need a government to protect us from ourselves.”
Ron Paul
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“Truth and news are not the same thing.”
Katharine Graham
“Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving.”
Bill Hicks
“When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.”
Thomas Paine
“We shouldn’t be fearful of freedom, we shouldn’t be fearful of individual liberty.”
Rand Paul
US vs. THEM (PART II)
In Part I of this article I discussed why the “Us versus Them” mindset permeates society and how Trump has become a lightning rod for hate. Now I will assess his progress in fighting the Deep State and try to peer into a murky future.
In addition to not being Hillary, the main reasons I voted for Trump was he promised to build the wall, he promised to repeal and replace Obamacare, he promised to end our foreign military interventions, he said he would bring fiscal sanity to the budget, he said the Federal Reserve had blown an immense stock market bubble, he questioned the fake economic data spouted by government drones, and he called out the fake news bullshit media. When I regularly assess his progress on these issues, the standard response from Trump acolytes is “Would you rather have Hillary?”. No, I would not. But that doesn’t get Trump off the hook for his failures in my book.
QUOTES OF THE DAY
“This is where we are at right now, as a whole. No one is left out of the loop. We are experiencing a reality based on a thin veneer of lies and illusions. A world where greed is our God and wisdom is sin, where division is key and unity is fantasy, where the ego-driven cleverness of the mind is praised, rather than the intelligence of the heart.”
Bill Hicks
“Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here’s American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here are 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”
Bill Hicks
US vs. THEM
“I’ll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. “I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.” “I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.” “Hey, wait a minute, there’s one guy holding out both puppets!”” – Bill Hicks
Anyone who frequents Twitter, Facebook, political blogs, economic blogs, or fake news mainstream media channels knows our world is driven by the “Us versus Them” narrative. It’s almost as if “they” are forcing us to choose sides and believe the other side is evil. Bill Hicks died in 1994, but his above quote is truer today then it was then. As the American Empire continues its long-term decline, the proles are manipulated through Bernaysian propaganda techniques, honed over the course of decades by the ruling oligarchs, to root for their assigned puppets.
Most people can’t discern they are being manipulated and duped by the Deep State controllers. The most terrifying outcome for these Deep State controllers would be for the masses to realize it is us versus them. But they don’t believe there is a chance in hell of this happening. Their arrogance is palatable.