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[The Consul]

"Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet."
- Chuck Palahniuk

[MinM]

rigorousintuition.ca - View topic - 16th Term Obama's New Betrayals/Old Old Hat

We all knew by the end of WWII that the US had Big Swinging Dick Syndrome, but it only went feral when the shadow players blew JFK's brains out.

It was a real-life coup d'etat, in the most powerful nation the world has ever seen.

JFK stood ready to correct some - just some - of the most flagrant excesses of the burgeoning US juggernaut, so they killed him. It is just plain wrong to include his among the 16 terms Floyd refers to. It is a gross oversight not to recognise that Kennedy's curtailed presidency was the odd one out among the 16...

rigorousintuition.ca - View topic - Hypnotist to put nation in trance thru Twitter, Facebook

I'd be impressed if he'd wake them from their existing trance instead.

[Laodicean]

"Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night."

- Philip K. Dick, What the Dead Men Say

[compared2what?]

"And think children, what does it all mean?" -- Fiorello LaGuardia

[Allegro]

^^

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

—

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening. [Refer.] [Gertrude Stein]

[Simulist]

"The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer."

— Ken Kesey

[Montag]

"What you talkin' about Willis?" - the late Gary Coleman

[Jeff]

"Even without knowing it, you're being prepared for a new age. Many of you already understand better than my generation ever will, the possibilities of computers. In some of your homes, the computer is as available as the television set. And I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The Air Force believes these kids will be outstanding pilots should they fly our jets. The computerized radar screen in the cockpit is not unlike the computerized video screen. Watch a 12-year old take evasive action and score multiple hits while playing Space Invaders, and you will appreciate the skills of tomorrow's pilot. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't want the youth of this country to run home and tell their parents that the president of the United States says it's all right for them to go ahead and play video games all the time. Homework, sports, and friends still come first. What I'm saying is that right now you're being prepared for tomorrow in many ways, and in ways that many of us who are older cannot fully comprehend."

- Ronald Reagan, Disney's EPCOT Center, March 8, 1983 (from Ed Halter's From Sun Tzu to XBox: War and Video Games)

[barracuda]

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.
- Bertrand Russell

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
-Groucho Marx

[Allegro]

It has always seemed strange to me… The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second. [Refer Cannery Row.]

—

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. [Refer East of Eden.]

[barracuda]

Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time -- and they're not always happy with me -- they talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true.
- President Obama

They talk about me like a dog,
Talkin about the clothes I wear.
But they don't realize they're the ones who's square.
- Jimi Hendrix

[jingofever]

“What if, on a crowded street, you look up and see something appear that should not, given what we know, be there. You either shake your head and dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than we think. Perhaps it really is a doorway to another place. If you choose to go inside you may find many unexpected things....”
—Shigeru Miyamoto

[Allegro]

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. [Refer.]

[Jeff]

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

[Jeff]

"susceptibility to fascism is explicable in terms of the economic degradation of large sections of the middle classes"

Klaus Theweleit (1978)