Blog: Plato: The perversion of the city...
The perversion of the city begins with the abuse of words.
Blog: Twain: it's easier to fool...
it's easier to fool people then to convince them that they have been fooled.
Blog: Jefferson : Tyranny vs Liberty
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.
Blog: George Orwell: All tyrannies...
All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force
Blog: Mahatma Gandhi: First they ignore you...
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Blog: Martin Kulldorff: To be a public health...
"To be a public health scientist during this pandemic is like living in a Kafka novel."
Blog: Aldous Huxley: Philosophy teaches us...
"Philosophy teaches us to feel uncertain about the things that seems to us self-evident. Propaganda, on the other hand, teaches us to accept as…
Blog: Krishnamurti: Mental Health
It is not a sign of good mental health to be well adapted to a sick society.
Blog: Martin Niemöller: « First they came... »
First the nazis came for the Kommunists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Kommunist. Then they came for the Social Democrats, and I did n…
Blog: Steve Keen: Engineers
Engineers do engineering, i.e. they build bridges. So engineering needs engineers. The economy does NOT need economists. Economists do not make…
Blog: Kipling: The first victim...
"The first victim of a war is the truth"
Blog: Geronimo: When the last tree...
When the last tree has been cut down, when the last river has been poisoned, when the last fish has been caught, then we will realize that we cannot…
Blog: Pierre Bourdieu: What is neoliberalism?
What is neoliberalism? A program of destruction of collective structures capable of hindering the logic of the pure market.
Blog: Aldous Huxley: The perfect dictatorship...
"The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls in which the prisoners would…
Blog: Noam Chomsky: Long before Georges Orwell...
It was perfectly clear, long before Georges Orwell, that memory had to be repressed. And not only memory, but also awareness of what is happening…
Blog: Gilles Deleuze: Être de gauche...
Être de gauche, c’est d’abord penser le monde, puis son pays, puis ses proches, puis soi ; Être de droite, c’est l’inverse.
Blog: George Bernard Shaw: Politicians and diapers...
Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently... for the same reasons.
Blog: Eugène Ionesco: Take a circle, caress it...
Take a circle, caress it, it will become vicious!
Blog: Absurdités: 100.000 vs 1.800 vs 535
Nous vivons dans un monde où ceux qui gagnent 100 000e par mois persuadent ceux qui en gagnent 1800 que tout va mal à cause de ceux qui vivent avec 5…
Blog: Noam Chomsky: Offensive
The ruling classes are using the current financial crisis as a pretext for the biggest offensive ever undertaken since World War II against the…
Blog: Mayer Anselm Rothschild: Permit me...
Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Blog: Article 123 of The Lisbon Treaty
1) Overdraft facilities or any other type of credit facility with the European Central Bank or with the central banks of the Member States…
Blog: Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico-philosophicus
1 . The world is everything that is the case. 2.014 The objects contain the possibility of all situations. 4. A thought is a proposition with a…
