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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).
๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก, ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ฆ.
๐๐ผ๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ ๐ง๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฌ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐-๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ง๐, ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ, ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐-๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ฒ.๐๐ผ
Peter Turchin in "End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and The Path of Political Disintegration" has written:
โ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฑ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ฌ ๐ง๐๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฌโ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ซ๐ฌโ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ. ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐งโ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ; ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ค ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ญ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ข๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ.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.
Iโm not against elites. I just wish we had better elites, that's all."
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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.
๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฑ๐ข๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ฌ๐๐ซ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ข๐ง ๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐
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 ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฆ now means something like "clearly defined and practicable"; it has become a term of praise.
๐๐ฃ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต means "vague, shadowy, unsubstantial"; it has become a term of reproach.
๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ, 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" ;
๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ can no longer be used in its proper sense without explanation.
๐๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ญ 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 wordโthe word ๐๐ฉ๐ณ๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ฏโwhich is at this moment on the brink.
That is always the trouble about allowing words to slip into the abyss. Once turn ๐ด๐ธ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ into a mere insult, and you need a new word (pig) when you want to talk about the animal. Once let ๐ด๐ข๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ 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 ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ. 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"โa 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. ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐'๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง?
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.
๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ฎ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ค ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ."
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C.S. Lewis, ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ด
September 22, 1944
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โ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ข๐ฆ ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฌ๐จ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ง๐จ ๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ.
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.
๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ฏ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐๐๐๐ง๐๐๐ฌ.
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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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 ใใผใใฃใผ 13 Booka Shade - Body Language (Adrian Funk Remix) 14 Cute lilโ French girl - a story (reprise)
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โMy 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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Yuri Pimenov - Spring Window (1948)
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โThe life of man is a story; an adventure story; and in our vision the same is true even of the story of God.
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๐๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ญ๐ก ๐จ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ.
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 philosophiesโ๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ฉ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐. The Faith is the justification of that popular instinct; ๐๐ผthe finding of a philosophy for it or the analysis of the philosophy in it.๐๐ผ
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 ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐ง; 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; ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ; ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ.
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.
๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ง๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฏ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐; ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐๐ฅ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง.
Each of them starves the story-telling instinct, so to speak, and does something to spoil ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐๐ซ๐๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐; 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.
๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ก ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ; ๐๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐ก ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐๐ก ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ ๐ก๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ; 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.
๐Every short story does truly begin with creation and end with a last judgement.๐โ
G.K. Chesterton,
The Everlasting Man (1925)
#gk chesterton#reality is a story#get with the program#be the best character you can be#be a good character#reality#truth#mythology#multidimensional narrative of being#time#faith#story#philosophy#being#God is an author#Chesterton#inklings#follow the breadcrumbs#abre los ojos#free yo mind and yo ass will follow#Christ#the faith#self revelation of the creator#time is a story
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โBLAKE 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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โGovernment 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 โlittle 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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โWhen I met him on the set for the very first timeโฆa couple of hours before we were going to shoot our first scene together, the director says (to Matthau) โthis is Kevin Pollak, heโs going to play your sonโ, and I foolishly decided to make small talk with Walter Matthau, and I said, โSo, Walter, uh, uh, the scriptโs pretty good huh?โ, and he says, โthe script sucks kid, I owe my bookie 2 million.โโ
โ Kevin Pollak, Grumpy Old Men (1993)
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โ๐๐ก๐๐ซ๐'๐ฌ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ก-๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐จ๐ซ "๐๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฒ."
๐๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐'๐ฌ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฒ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ง "๐๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ" ๐๐ฌ ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ ๐จ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ข๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ'๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐๐ญ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ.โ
โ ๐๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฆรฉ ๐๐ข๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ฑ
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โ๐๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ข๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐๐จ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ญ๐ข๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐๐ ๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ฉ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ
Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฌ๐ฒ๐๐ก๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ฆ๐๐๐ซ ๐จ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐จ๐จ๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐๐ง ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ค๐๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐ค.
Various results will soon be arrived at.
First, ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ข๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐.
Second, ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐๐ก ๐๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ฎ๐ง๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐ง๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐๐๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐๐ง.
Third, that ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐จ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐.
Fourth, ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐ก๐๐ฅ๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ข๐ ๐ญ๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ. (aka โcrackpot 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, ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ. ๐๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐๐.
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 policemenโฆ
Some of these effects depend upon the political and economic character of the country concerned; others are inevitable, whatever this character may be.โ
โBertrand Russell
๐๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ค๐ช๐ฆ๐ต๐บ (1954)
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