If you go along with the crowd, you’ll be . . . one of the crowd. And that’s it. From Paul Rosenberg at freemansperspective.com:
Years ago I engaged in a long usenet discussion with another gentleman on immigration, life in the third world, etc. After some back-and-forths, the gentleman proposed a scenario:
What would happen if the two of us were dropped, naked and with absolutely no way of calling for help, into the poorest and most desperate spot in India?
Would we stay there, living the rest of our lives as the locals do? And if not, why should we be able to extract ourselves while they could not?
We decided, quite quickly, that the first day or days would be unpleasant, but that we’d make our ways out of the situation in short order. The question then became, “What was it that would empower our self-extraction?”
More discussions ensued but it wasn’t hard to see that is wasn’t our better education that would ultimately stand behind it. In the end, we agreed that it came down to two things:
- We believed that we could and should live better than that.
- We had zero belief that this situation was in any way “ours.”
One of my favorite Electric Wizard tracks, the bass sounds likes a prop plane with pedal effects.
Greasy haired and hive borg strong with enemedia Bolshevik agitprop teleprompter reader at 1800hrs?
Oh hell NO.