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Everyone is the other, and no one is himself!. The "they", which supplies the answer to the "who" of everyday Da-sein, is the "nobody" to whom every Da-sein has always already surrendered itself, in its being-among-one-another!.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them!.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company!.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day!.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat!.

If you're in favor of freedom of speech, that means you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise!.

Stripped to its essentials, every decision in life amounts to choosing which lottery ticket to buy!. !. !. !. Most organisms don't buy lottery tickets, but they all choose between gambles every time their bodies can move in more than one way!. They should be willing to 'pay' for information---in tissue, energy, and time---if the cost is lower than the expected payoff in food, safety, mating opportunities, and other resources, all ultimately valuated in the expected number of surviving offspring!. In multicellular animals the information is gathered and translated into profitable decisions by the nervous system!.

In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair!. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party!. Both represent some range of business interests!. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices!. In the 1984 election, for example, there was actually an issue, which often there isn't!. The issue was Keynesian growth versus fiscal conservatism!. The Republicans were the party of Keynesian growth: big spending, deficits, and so on!. The Democrats were the party of fiscal conservatism: watch the money supply, worry about the deficits, et cetera!. Now, I didn't see a single comment pointing out that the two parties had completely reversed their traditional positions!. Traditionally, the Democrats are the party of Keynesian growth, and the Republicans the party of fiscal conservatism!. So doesn't it strike you that something must have happened!? Well, actually, it makes sense!. Both parties are essentially the same party!. The only question is how coalitions of investors have shifted around on tactical issues now and then!. As they do, the parties shift to opposite positions, within a narrow spectrum!.

!.!.!.capitalism is basically a system where everything is for sale, and the more money you have, the more you can get!. And, in particular, that's true of freedom!. Freedom is one of the commodities that is for sale, and if you are affluent, you can have a lot of it!. It shows up in all sorts of ways!. It shows up if you get in trouble with the law, let's say, or in any aspect of life it shows up!. And for that reason it makes a lot of sense, if you accept capitalist system, to try to accumulate property, not just because you want material welfare, but because that guarantees your freedom, it makes it possible for you to amass that commodity!. [!.!.!.] what you're going to find is that the defense of free institutions will largely be in the hands of those who benefit from them, namely the wealthy, and the powerful!. They can purchase that commodity and, therefore, they want those institutions to exist, like free press, and all that!.

If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately you internalize what you're saying, because it's too hard to believe one thing and say another!. I can see it very strikingly in my own background!. Go to any elite university and you are usually speaking to very disciplined people, people who have been selected for obedience!. And that makes sense!. If you've resisted the temptation to tell the teacher, "You're an asshole," which maybe he or she is, and if you don't say, "That's idiotic," when you get a stupid assignment, you will gradually pass through the required filters!. You will end up at a good college and eventually with a good job!.

!.!.!.sectors of the doctrinal system serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc!. The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered!. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world!. In fact, it's undesirable -- if they see too much of reality they may set themselves to change it!.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views!. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate!.

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Here are a couple of wonderful thoughts from the great writer, Hermann Hesse:

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value!."

"It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a b@st@rd!."

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George Santayana:
Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it!.

I know not with what weapons WWIII will be fought, but WWIV will be fought with sticks and stones!. --Albert Einstein

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when one door closes , another opens
patience is a virtue
i wasted time, and now time wastes me
love does not look with the eyes,, but with the mind
we know what we are, but not what we may be!.
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