Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.
If we have a bitcoin universe, you don't get to print money for war. You don't get to have money for a prison/industrial complex. You don't get money for a war on drugs. You have to ask the people.
Anger is the immune system of the soul.
The only freedom is freedom from illusion.
Appeasers will always try to get the least dangerous person to bend to the most dangerous person. This is one of the main problems in dysfunctional relationships. The more mature and rational you are the more you are victimized because, they are aware that you're not going to be as aggressive, destructive, or possibly as abusive and so you are the one who has to bend. You're the one who has to change and this constant rapping of rational people's souls around the prickly irrationalities of other people are what appeasers are constantly doing.
The best way to look at countries on a map is like a chalk outline drawn by the police when someone dies what you are seeing with the borders are just outlines of historical crimes past warlords empires its nothing to be loyal to. Have loyalty to reason, to evidence, to ideals not to lines drawn up mostly by criminals.
The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.
The idea that the State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism - which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.
Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.
We can only avoid the traps we can see.
The war on drugs is really the war on people who buy drugs from people who don't lobby the government.
Do Libertarians care about the poor? Well, we're not ladening them down with debt, we're not sending them off to God damned wars, we're not creating a permanent underclass, we're not trapping them in shitty schools where they graduate unable to read, WE DO CARE ABOUT THE POOR, and that's why we want the State out of their way!!
There is no key to open the heart of another - except curiosity.
We raise predators by treating children as prey.
Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.
There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership into the hands of a small, political elite and their minions.
All money does with an empty heart is allow you to be miserable in style.
Don't try to sail your ship now by how the wind is going to be in three days. You have to sail with the winds are they are now.
Politicians are propaganda, the people with guns are the enforcers and the media is the enthusiastic lapdog who enables the entire behavior and acts as the verbal abuser against those who deviate from nodding their heads at the vast statues of evil that we inherited.
Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
I refuse to let the standards of evil people chip away at my capacity for integrity.
The moment I realised that my history was an excuse for nothing, was the moment I was freed from my history. The great danger of history is that we use it as an excuse and remain trapped in it. I cannot blame my history for anything, and therefore I have to have high standards for myself.
If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing.
Pulse proximity is not intimacy.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
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