infinitysisters
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infinitysisters ยท 1 month ago
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"I criticize elites a lot. But I have nothing against "elites" as a category. I'm not a communist (though even communist regimes had elites; funny how that works).
๐Œ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก, ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ข๐ฆ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐œ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ข๐๐ž๐š๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฆ.
๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ ๐ง๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐, ๐š๐ฌ ๐“๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ฌ ๐’๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฅ๐Ÿ-๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐›๐š๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐œ๐ฒ.๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿผ
Peter Turchin in "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and The Path of Political Disintegration" has written:
โ€œ๐‚๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฌโ€”๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐š๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌโ€”๐ญ๐จ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐–๐ž ๐๐จ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ; ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐›๐ž๐ง๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ.โ€
There's nothing wrong with elites, and every functioning (and non-functioning) society has elites and needs elites. If you tried to depose the existing elites, other elites or aspirational elites would simply replace them.
Iโ€™m not against elites. I just wish we had better elites, that's all."
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infinitysisters ยท 2 months ago
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"The truth is not simply that words originally innocent tend to acquire a bad sense. The truth is that words originally descriptive tend to become terms either of mere praise or of mere blame.
The vocabulary of flattery and insult is continually enlarged at the expense of the vocabulary of definition. As old horses go to the knacker's yard, or old ships to the breakers, so words in their last decay go to swell the enormous list of synonyms for good and bad.
๐€๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐›๐ž ๐Ÿ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐š ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐š๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ ๐ž
This process is going on very rapidly at the moment. The words 'abstract' and 'concrete' were first coined to express a distinction which is really necessary to thought: but it is only for the very highly educated that they still do so.
In popular language ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ now means something like "clearly defined and practicable"; it has become a term of praise.
๐˜ˆ๐˜ฃ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต means "vague, shadowy, unsubstantial"; it has become a term of reproach.
๐˜”๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฏ, in the mouths of many speakers, has ceased to be a chronological term ; it has "sunk into a good sense" and often means little more than "efficient" or in some contexts "kind" ;
๐˜Š๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ข๐˜ญ can no longer be used in its proper sense without explanation.
๐˜—๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ is a mere term of approval;
To save any word from the eulogistic and dyslogistic abyss is a task worth the efforts of all who love the English language. And I can think of one wordโ€”the word ๐˜Š๐˜ฉ๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏโ€”which is at this moment on the brink.
That is always the trouble about allowing words to slip into the abyss. Once turn ๐˜ด๐˜ธ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ into a mere insult, and you need a new word (pig) when you want to talk about the animal. Once let ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ฎ dwindle into a useless synonym for cruelty, and what do you do when you have to refer to the highly special perversion which actually afflicted M. de Sade?
It is important to notice that the danger to the word "Christian" comes not from its open enemies, but from its friends.
It was not egalitarians, it was officious admirers of gentility, who killed the word ๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ. The other day I had occasion to say that certain people were not Christians; a critic asked how I dared say so, being unable (as of course I am) to read their hearts. I had used the word to mean "persons who profess belief in the specific doctrines of Christianity"; my critic wanted me to use it in what he would (rightly) call "a far deeper sense"โ€”a sense so deep that no human observer can tell to whom it applies.
And is that deeper sense not more important? It is indeed ; just as it was more important to be a "real" gentleman than to have coat-armour. But the most important sense of a word is not always the most useful. ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ž๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐'๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐ž๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง?
And when, however reverently, you have killed a word you have also, as far as in you lay, blotted from the human mind the thing that word originally stood for.
๐๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐  ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐š๐ฒ."
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C.S. Lewis, ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜‹๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฉ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ž๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฅ๐˜ด
September 22, 1944
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infinitysisters ยท 5 months ago
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โ€œ๐Ž๐ง๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ข๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ž๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ž ๐ง๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ž ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐š๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ.
I mean the claim to forgive sins: any sins.
Now unless the speaker is God, this is really so preposterous as to be comic...Yet this is what Jesus did. He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured.
๐‡๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐›๐ž๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐‡๐ž ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ž๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž๐ฌ.
This makes sense only if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin.โ€
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C.S. Lewis
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infinitysisters ยท 5 months ago
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This was a good one from back in the day.
https://soundcloud.com/tefonik/break-yoself-foo-mix
Repostinโ€™ dat funk. :-) 1 Cute little French girl - a story 2 Anna Caragnano & Donato Dozzy - Parola 3 Peter Kruder - Law of Return 4 Childish Gambino - Sober (Oliver Nelson Remix) 5 Angel D & Daniele Petronelli - Iko Iko (Min & Mal Remix) 6 Blackstreet - No Diggity (The Polish Ambassador Remix) 7 Bassbin Twins - Zapped 8 Krafty Kuts vs.La Roux - Bulletproof (Tepr mix/Krafty Kuts re-rub) 9 Madeon - Pay No Mind feat. Passion Pit (Lemaitre Remix) 10 Meat Beat Manifesto - God OD (Jonah Sharp mix) 11 Kerri Chandler - Planet Sonic 12 Tokyo Machine - PARTY ใƒ‘ใƒผใƒ†ใ‚ฃใƒผ 13 Booka Shade - Body Language (Adrian Funk Remix) 14 Cute lilโ€™ French girl - a story (reprise)
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infinitysisters ยท 5 months ago
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โ€œMy case is not that the nation state is the only answer to the problems of modern government, but that it is the only answer that has proved itself.
We may feel tempted to experiment with other forms of political order. But experiments on this scale are dangerous, since nobody knows how to predict or to reverse their results.
The French, Russian, and Nazi Revolutions were bold experiments; but in each case they led to the collapse of legal order, to mass murder at home, and to belligerence abroad.
The wise policy is to accept the arrangements, however imperfect, that have evolved through custom and inheritance, to improve them by small adjustments, but not to jeopardize them by large-scale alterations the consequences of which nobody can really envisage.
The case for this approach was unanswerably set before us by Burke in his Reflections on the French Revolution, and subsequent history has repeatedly confirmed his view of things.
The lesson that we should draw, therefore, is that since the nation state has proved to be a stable foundation of democratic government and a secular jurisdiction, we ought to improve it, to adjust it, even to dilute it, but not to throw it away."
โ€” Roger Scruton
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infinitysisters ยท 6 months ago
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Yuri Pimenov - Spring Window (1948)
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infinitysisters ยท 8 months ago
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โ€œThe life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.
โ€ฆ๐…๐š๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ.
It is a story and in that sense one of a hundred stories; only it is a true story.
It is a philosophy and in that sense one of a hundred philosophies; only it is a philosophy that is like life.
But above all, it is a reconciliation because it is something that can only be called the philosophy of stories.
That normal narrative instinct which produced all the fairy tales is something that is neglected by all the philosophiesโ€”๐ž๐ฑ๐œ๐ž๐ฉ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ž. The Faith is the justification of that popular instinct; ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผthe finding of a philosophy for it or the analysis of the philosophy in it.๐Ÿ‘ˆ๐Ÿผ
Exactly as a man in an adventure story has to pass various tests to save his life, so the man in this philosophy has to pass several tests and save his soul.
In both there is an idea of ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐ž๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง; in other words, there is an aim and it is the business of a man to aim at it; we therefore watch to see whether he will hit it.
Now this deep and democratic and dramatic instinct is derided and dismissed in all the other philosophies. For all the other philosophies avowedly end where they begin; ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ž๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ; ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐š๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ.
From Buddha and his wheel to Akhen Aten and his disc, from Pythagoras with his abstraction of number to Confucius with his religion of routine, there is not one of them that does not in some way sin against the soul of a story.
๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ซ๐š๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ž, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž; ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ž๐š๐ฅ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ง.
Each of them starves the story-telling instinct, so to speak, and does something to spoil ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž; either by fatalism (pessimist or optimist) and that destiny that is the death of adventure; or by indifference and that detachment that is the death of drama; or by a fundamental scepticism that dissolves the actors into atoms; or by a materialistic limitation blocking the vista of moral consequences; or a mechanical recurrence making even moral tests monotonous; or a bottomless relativity making even practical tests insecure.
๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ; ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐š ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐œ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐š ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ; but there is no such thing as a Hegelian story or a Monist story or a relativist story or a determinist story; for every story, yes, even a penny dreadful or a cheap novelette, has something in it that belongs to our universe and not theirs.
๐Ÿ”‘Every short story does truly begin with creation and end with a last judgement.๐Ÿ”‘โ€
G.K. Chesterton,
The Everlasting Man (1925)
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โ€œBLAKE WROTE the Marriage of Heaven and Hell. If I have written of their Divorce, this is not because I think myself a fit antagonist for so great a genius, nor even because I feel at all sure that I know what he meant. But in some sense or other the attempt to make that marriage is perennial.
The attempt is based on the belief that reality never presents us with an absolutely unavoidable "either-or"; that, granted skill and patience and (above all) time enough, some way of embracing both alternatives can always be found; that mere development or adjustment or refinement will somehow turn evil into good without our being called on for a final and total rejection of anything we should like to retain.
This belief I take to be a disastrous error. You cannot take all luggage with you on all journeys; on one journey even your right hand and your right eye may be among the things you have to leave behind.
We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision.
Even on the biological level life is not like a pool but like a tree. It does not move towards unity but away from it and the creatures grow further apart as they increase in perfection. Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A wrong sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
Evil can be undone, but it cannot "develop" into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, "with backward mutters of dissevering power"-or else not. It is still "either-or." If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) was precisely nothing: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in "the High Countries."
In that sense it will be true for those who have completed the journey (and for no others) to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere. But we, at this end of the road, must not try to anticipate that retrospective vision. If we do, we are likely to embrace the false and disastrous converse and fancy that everything is good and everywhere is Heaven.
But what, you ask, of earth? Earth, I think, will not be found by anyone to be in the end a very distinct place. I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.โ€
C.S. Lewis, preface to The Great Divorce
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โ€œGovernment is a search for order, and for power only in so far as power is required by order.
It is present in the family, in the free associations of neighbours, and in the โ€˜little platoonsโ€™ extolled by Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the French Revolution and by Alexis de Tocqueville, in Democracy in America.
It is there in the first movement of affection and good will, from which the bonds of society grow. For it is simply the other side of freedom, and the thing that makes freedom possible.โ€
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โ€œWhen I met him on the set for the very first timeโ€ฆa couple of hours before we were going to shoot our first scene together, the director says (to Matthau) โ€œthis is Kevin Pollak, heโ€™s going to play your sonโ€, and I foolishly decided to make small talk with Walter Matthau, and I said, โ€˜So, Walter, uh, uh, the scriptโ€™s pretty good huh?โ€™, and he says, โ€˜the script sucks kid, I owe my bookie 2 million.โ€™โ€
โ€” Kevin Pollak, Grumpy Old Men (1993)
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โ€œ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐š๐ง ๐ž๐ฉ๐ข๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ข๐œ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก-๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ "๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ˆ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ."
๐Œ๐š๐ง๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž'๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฒ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง "๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ" ๐š๐ฌ ๐š ๐ฌ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐š๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ'๐ซ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ.โ€
โ€” ๐’๐š๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆรฉ ๐’๐ข๐›๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฑ
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โ€œ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐ž๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐š๐๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐›๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฒ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ
Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐จ๐œ๐ข๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ž ๐š ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฌ๐œ๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ž๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐œ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ค๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐›๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค.
Various results will soon be arrived at.
First, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ง๐Ÿ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐›๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž.
Second, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐›๐ž ๐๐จ๐ง๐ž ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐œ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐›๐ž๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ž๐ง.
Third, that ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐œ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ž๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž.
Fourth, ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐ก๐ž๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐š ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐›๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐š๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ž๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ. (aka โ€œcrackpot conspirarcy theoriesโ€)
But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray.
Although this science will be diligently studied, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐›๐ž ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐Ÿ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐œ๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐›๐ž ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐š๐ญ๐ž๐.
When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemenโ€ฆ
Some of these effects depend upon the political and economic character of the country concerned; others are inevitable, whatever this character may be.โ€
โ€”Bertrand Russell
๐˜๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜š๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜š๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜บ (1954)
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