Cui Bono

"Every society consists of an organized minority controlling an unorganized majority."

                                                             -Dick Eastman

When one has the ability to manipulate people like chess pieces, it doesn't really matter who appears to be in power. Despite clever rhetoric and deceptive social engineering tactics, it is difficult to disguise the more blatant aspects of "cause and effect". Regardless of their ingenuity level, most people eventually reveal their true intentions.

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The Meaning of Life

Achieving happiness

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 The Lunatic Fringe

But then I sigh and, with a piece of scripture,
Tell them that God bids us do good for evil;
And thus I clothe my naked villiany
With odd old ends stol'n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint when most I play the devil.
                                                     
 -Shakespeare
 Richard III


Throughout the years, lunatic-fringe Christians have lied about me, stalked me, threatened me, stoled from me, sabotaged me, (attributing it to either "the devil" or, worse yet, to "God's will"), attempted to bribe me and have invaded my privacy.These very same terrorists have then had the audacity to question why I refrain from attending their churches. Some people have very strange recruitment techniques.

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Guilt

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted-and you create a nation of law-breakers-and then you cash in on guilt."

"I mean that there is no way to disarm any man," said Dr. Ferris, "except through guilt. Through that which he himself has accepted as guilt. If a man has ever stolen a dime, you can impose on him the punishment intended for a bank robber and he will take it. He'll bear any form of misery, he'll feel that he deserved no better. If there is not enough guilt in the world, we must create it. If we teach a man that it's evil to look at spring flowers and he believes us and then does it-we'll be able to do whatever we please with him. He won't defend himself. He won't feel he's worth it. He won't fight. But save us from the man who lives up to his own standards. save us from the man of clean conscience. He's the man who'll beat us."

                                                                                                                                                                   -Ayn Rand
 Atlas Shrugged

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Isolation

“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

— William Gibson

 

Sometimes isolation can be a good thing.

 

 

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