04-01-2022, 11:21 AM
ÔÇ£Shorter hours for the working man, & a minimum wage for both skilled & unskilled labour, which will guarantee every man over the age of 21 a salary that will enable him to live decently. ÔÇÿCharlie Chaplin interview with New York World, 1931.
Charlie Chaplin, his life & art. David Robinson
ÔÇ£The point is that all the things we used to let society hold over us ÔÇô my god, he got drunk in public; good lord, she actually has sex; wow, heÔÇÖs experimented with drugs; gee whiz, sometimes she doesnÔÇÖt look perfect; holy crap, heÔÇÖs had a few minor run-ins with the law - none of that garbage matters, & Caitlin & most of her generations are saying so. They just donÔÇÖt care about it; they donÔÇÖt care about it now, & they wonÔÇÖt care about it when theyÔÇÖre the ones in power, either.ÔÇØ
Robert J Sawyer, Wonder
ÔÇ£It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honour, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.ÔÇØ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
ÔÇ£Evil is not just a theory of paradox, but an actual entity that exists only for itself. .....it must hide within the shroud of lies and deceit it spins to manipulate the weak-minded as well as those who choose to ally themselves with it for their own personal gain......
For evil must rely on the self-serving interests of the arrogant, the lustful, the power-hungry, the hateful, and the greedy to feed and proliferate...... once all that was good has been extinguished by corruption or annihilation, evil will then turn upon and consume what remains: particularly its immoral servants who have assisted its purpose so well  along with itself."
R.G. Risch, Beyond Mars: Crimson Fleet
'The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter & that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, Images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."
La condition humaine, (manÔÇÖs fate) Andre Malraux.
Charlie Chaplin, his life & art. David Robinson
ÔÇ£The point is that all the things we used to let society hold over us ÔÇô my god, he got drunk in public; good lord, she actually has sex; wow, heÔÇÖs experimented with drugs; gee whiz, sometimes she doesnÔÇÖt look perfect; holy crap, heÔÇÖs had a few minor run-ins with the law - none of that garbage matters, & Caitlin & most of her generations are saying so. They just donÔÇÖt care about it; they donÔÇÖt care about it now, & they wonÔÇÖt care about it when theyÔÇÖre the ones in power, either.ÔÇØ
Robert J Sawyer, Wonder
ÔÇ£It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honour, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.ÔÇØ Joseph Heller, Catch-22
ÔÇ£Evil is not just a theory of paradox, but an actual entity that exists only for itself. .....it must hide within the shroud of lies and deceit it spins to manipulate the weak-minded as well as those who choose to ally themselves with it for their own personal gain......
For evil must rely on the self-serving interests of the arrogant, the lustful, the power-hungry, the hateful, and the greedy to feed and proliferate...... once all that was good has been extinguished by corruption or annihilation, evil will then turn upon and consume what remains: particularly its immoral servants who have assisted its purpose so well  along with itself."
R.G. Risch, Beyond Mars: Crimson Fleet
'The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter & that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, Images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."
La condition humaine, (manÔÇÖs fate) Andre Malraux.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)