"You can't fix human civilization or human society without fixing human nature."
I replied: Human nature is governed by culture, and for most human societies it became dysfunctional with the abrupt change to settled agriculture and its associated accumulation. IMO, a great effort is now underway to alter human culture that's headed by China and Russia. I've articulated some of the major points as they relate to political-economy and the "new" (which is actually old) philosophy and culture pathways associated to it. It already has several billion adherents globally. One great advantage is we know how the current dysfunctional culture arose, was modified and perpetuated, which means we know how it can be undone.
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a colour photograph of God Almighty — and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable.
What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, Bennington College Address (1970)
Alexander Dugin: The situation is becoming more and more sinister. Already, billions of people on the planet are convinced that the collective West and its allies are absolute evil and the civilization of the Antichrist. Democrats, globalists and neoconservatives are leading humanity straight into the abyss. Which, strictly speaking, is what demons are supposed to do.
https://twitter.com/Agdchan/status/1711820872619528591
It is a kind of surgical slavery, where parts of you are free ... your free to get a tattoo, you can curse, you are free in many ways, but you're not free in the ways that matter.
That's what happens when you design weapons to make money instead of win wars.
"Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker." - CS Lewis
“The American ruling class is devoid of morality, it has no more religion, all that remains with it is an obsession with money and war and a kind of enjoyment at creating a mess all over the world.” - Emmanuel Todd
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong” - Socrates
“America… is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.” - David Foster Wallace
The president stated that over the past few centuries, the so-called “golden billion” has grown accustomed to being able to “fill their bellies with human flesh and their pockets with money” as they have been “parasitizing” other peoples in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. ”But they must understand that the vampire ball is ending,” Putin said.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them, but protect them against you. . . you may know that your society is doomed.” - Ayn Rand
“…Fascism is just Imperialism trying to save itself…” -Joti Brar
Savor the fruit of life, my young friends. It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine. But don't live too long. The taste turns bitter... after a time. - Kor
USA has long claimed to be a meritocracy, but the measure of merit has always been wealth. Maybe we can make ethical merit the primary consideration. - Honzo(MOA)
“Dr. King’s policy was, if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. That’s very good. He only made one fallacious assumption. In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none." — Kwame Ture aka Stokely Carmichael
Happpiness is an escape. -- Jacob Winograd (Undone)
My wish is, there is no wish. -- Totem (2023)
The white conservatives aren’t friends of the Negro either, but they at least don’t try to hide it. They are like wolves; they show their teeth in a snarl that keeps the Negro always aware of where he stands with them. But the white liberals are foxes, who also show their teeth to the Negro but pretend that they are smiling. The white liberals are more dangerous than the conservatives; they lure the Negro, and as the Negro runs from the growling wolf, he flees into the open jaws of the “smiling” fox. One is a wolf, the other is a fox. No matter what, they’ll both eat you. -- Malcolm X
“Today, I am planning to engage in an extreme act of protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people... Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?’ The answer is, you’re doing it. Right now." -- Aaron Bushnell, February 25 2024
