Category: Inspiration

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On Governments and Slavery

Governments are mightily jealous of anyone else having force or power. They want their citizens disarmed and powerless, their neighbours similarly disenfranchised and all unable to resist their every whim and wish.
The end result of this jealously is tyranny and slavery.
Which would be OK if slaves were treated well and the society prospered but that is not what history teaches us happens to slave societies.
When you take their assets, initiative, responsibility and freedom away from the individual and concentrate power in the hands of the few, as can be observed by even the most casual student of history, that society fails and is present only after in the history books or in archeological digs and museums.
How do you make a slave? Give him things. Look at the actions of most present day governments and they are very busy taking from the producers and giving to the indigent. A time tested formula for producing slave societies.
If you want to remain a free man/woman, turn your back on handouts and look anywhere and everywhere for opportunities to do something you love by which to earn your daily bread.
You will be strengthening your survival potential and that of those around you by your example.
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On Censorship – JFK

“A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” – JFK

“And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.” – JFK

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George Orwell on Spring

How many a time have I stood watching the toads mating, or a pair of hares having a boxing match in the young corn, and thought of all the important persons who would stop me enjoying this if they could. But luckily they can’t. So long as you are not actually ill, hungry, frightened or immured in a prison or a holiday camp, spring is still spring. The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it. — George Orwell