Revolutionary thought of the day: Pick up Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front or James Jones’s From Here to Eternity. Read Henry IV. Turn to the Iliad. The allure of combat is a trap, a ploy, an old, dirty game of deception in which the powerful, who
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mark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Orthodoxy is unconsciousness
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?… Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive … Continue reading →
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BOOKS: PAPAL SIN AND LORD ACTON: “The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks” – Lord Acton I thought that the above quote from Lord Acton was the most appropriate for our times, even
Continue readingwmtc: "you must fearlessly accept the challenge and aggressively spread the idea of war resistance."
Those who think that the danger of war is past are living in a fool’s paradise. We are faced today with militarism more powerful and more dangerous than that which brought on the World War. That is what the governments have accomplished! But among the peoples of the world the
Continue readingwmtc: howard zinn on not predicting the future
There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people’s thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion …
Continue readingWritings of J. Todd Ring: The schizoid nature of the Western world: Overcoming the root paradox of Western civilization – and our own minds
The Western world is still trapped in a paradox and a self-contradiction of our own making: we are schizoid with regards to the body, the material world and to our physicality. On the one hand, we have, as people of the modern world, embraced our physi…
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The result of an unfortunate seating arrangement. In October 1789 the Paris mob,led by women walked to Versailles,stormed the palace and dragged the king back to town with them.The assembly had no choice but to follow.Louis was put in his gilded cage,the Tuileries Palace. The nearest building capable of seating
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“Can anyone on Capital [sic] Hill read?” demanded a sign held by a protester at one of the first Tea Party rallies, back in February of 2009.”If so read the ConstitutionAs Americans we do not have the right:To a houseTo a carTo an educationAmericans …
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CANADIAN POLITICS: STRAIGHT FROM THE OTHER END OF THE HORSE-HARPER QUOTES: To the tune of ‘Those Were The Days’…things the Conservative leader would like forgotten. For the original sources of these quotes see this link. Stephen Harper in his own wo…
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