“Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom” – Friedrich August Hayek “It makes no difference who you vote for – the two parties are really one party representing four percent of the people” Gore Vidal “The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their ‘vital interests’ are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the ‘sanctity’ of human life, or the ‘conscience’ of the civilized world. ” James Baldwin [From chapter one of “The Devil Finds Work” (orig. pub. 1976), page 489 of Collected Essays | ========= ========= ========= ========= ========= | |





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