Monday, November 30, 2020

Exclusive

 "[E]ducation and schooling are, as we all have experienced, mutually exclusive terms."
--John Taylor Gatto,
"Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling"


Sunday, November 29, 2020

Weeds II

"... these two words [birth control] sum up our whole philosophy... It means the release and cultivation of the better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extinction, of defective stocks -- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization."
--Margaret Sanger,
"High Lights in the History of Birth Control," October, 1923.

Saturday, November 28, 2020

Sunny

 "Benito was notoriously good-natured. People said of him that he could have got through life without ever touching soma. The malice and bad tempers from which other people had to take holidays never afflicted him. Reality for Benito was always sunny."
--Aldous Huxley,
"Brave New World"

Friday, November 27, 2020

Mermaid

"I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living."
--Anaïs Nin,
"The Four-Chambered Heart"

Thursday, November 26, 2020

Outlook

 "If you are awaiting a finding of 'clear and present danger,' then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.

It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed."

--John F. Kennedy,
Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association, April 27, 1961
 

Saturday, November 07, 2020

"Won"

 To say that ShortEyes has "won" is like saying, on April 12, 1861, that the South had "won" the Civil War.

--TLC