Quotes

If you’re interested in terror, you should look at its causes. Now from the point of view of apologists for state-terror, you’re not allowed to look at the causes because that’s considered rationalization or justification. So if you try to look at the causes, like every sane person does, it’s rationalization and what you’re supposed to do is throw tantrums and scream about Islamic fascism and blame it on the bad genes of the Arabs or something. But you’re not allowed to look at the causes and there’s a good reason for that; soon as you look at the causes you start looking in the mirror.

Having recieved initiation into the most august of western esotericism’s linneages on my birthday at full moon in the year of my second saturn return, I feel imbued with sufficient MacGregorian zeal and fire to avenge the theft of Liber 777 by bringing the middlebrow victorian misogynist neo-satanism of the aeon of the crowned and conquering spoilt brat to a belated close in its 108th year. The TW belief has never given good results in my view, and I have opposed it throughout my career. Later in the year I shall take the opportunity afforded by a visit to Loch Ness to close the relevant demon gate, doing my bit to make 2012 a year of seminal changes, hopefully for the better.

‎Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.

Now, of course, it’s extremely easy to say, “The heck with it – I’m just going to adapt myself to the structures of power and authority, and do the best I can within them.” Sure, you can do that. But that’s not acting like a decent person. Look, if you’re walking down the street and you see a kid eating an ice-cream cone, and you notice there’s no cop around and you’re hungry, you can take the ice-cream cone because you’re bigger and just walk away. You can do that – probably there are people who do. But we call them pathological. On the other hand, if they do it within existing social structures, we call them normal – but it’s just as pathological, it’s just the pathology of the general society.

Things happen in the world because of the efforts of dedicated and courageous people
whose names no one has heard, and who disappear from history.

One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is ‘Libertarian.’ People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it’s just one more bullshit political philosophy.

I’ve got an idea about homelessness. Do you know what they ought to do? Change the name of it. It’s not “homelessness”, it’s “houselessness”. It’s houses these people need. A home is an abstract idea, a home is a setting, it’s a state of mind. These people need houses; physical, tangible structures. They need low-cost housing. But where are you going to put it? Nobody wants you to build low-cost housing near their house. People don’t want it near them. We’ve got something in this country, it’s called NIMBY. N-I-M-B-Y; ‘Not In My BackYard’! People don’t want anything, any kind of social help located anywhere near them! You try to open up a halfway house, try to open up a drug or alcohol rehab center, try to do a homeless shelter somewhere, try to open up a little home for some retarded people who want to work their way back into the community. People say “Not in my backyard!” People don’t want anything near them. Especially if it might help somebody else. Part of that great American spirit of generosity we hear about.

‘America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: ‘If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?’ There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.