“There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.” Mahatma Gandhi #gandhi #happybirthday #nonviolence #greathumans
Month: October 2013
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters Collection, 1954. The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux. Paris, c.1324-1328
And the other leading propaganda theme – and I don’t mean by that, you know, like, just what you hear in the newspapers- read in the newspapers and so on, like the entertainment industry and television and everything else – is anti-politics. Meaning, setting up a picture – it’s called anti-politics – the picture – but a very specific kind of anti-politics – you have to establish the image, you know, get into people’s heads, that the Government is the enemy- the Federal Government. State Governments are okay, because they can be sort of controlled by business anyway, so it doesn’t matter. But the Federal Government is sometimes a little too big to be pushed around, so it’s the enemy. And it cannot be, nobody can dream of the possibility, that the Government is of, by, and for the people. That’s impossible. It’s an enemy to be hated and feared.
Not that there aren’t a lot of things wrong with it, but that’s not – what’s wrong with it, from their point of view, is it has a big defect: it’s potentially influenceable by the population, and big enough to stand up against private power. And that’s the defect.
So, you have to regard it as the enemy. It cannot be of, by, and for the people. It’s a kind of a, Them versus Us business. “Them” is the Government which is the enemy. “Us” is all of us nice people, you know, sober working man, his loyal wife – maybe, extra job these days – the hard-working executive toiling twenty hours a day, you know, for the benefit of all, the friendly banker who’s out there trying to find – to give you money. That’s “Us.” And then there’s “Them.” “Them” is the outsiders, the un-Americans, you know, the agitators, the union organizers, big government, and so on. And it’s sort of, Us versus Them. That’s the picture.
– Noam Chomsky
First, my apologies to those who reblogged this with good intention. I just see this from another point of view.
Also – never believe what a “businessman” is trying to sell you. If it were up to Ron Paul businesses could freely sell you poison and call it candy. There would be no social services because that would interfere with their lord and master – the market. Guys like Paul are shitting themselves right now with the government shut down. They’re glad that WIC is no longer providing food for kids.
THANK YOU!
A huge thanks everyone who helped me out and told Amazon to make my book free. Special thanks to theharlequinfromutopia, the winner of a print copy of My Babylon Compete. Your book is on the way.
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On October 13th, I’ll pick one person at random to mail a print copy of My Babylon Complete.
Thanks again for helping my dreams of being a successful writer come true.
DAFAQ!
So I just got around to watching season 8 episode 13. How come no one told me Sam and Dean’s grandfather was a member of the Ordo Templi Orientis? And they have all the supernatural secrets of the universe?
Makes sense
Ave Babalon
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