Quote for the Day

[Nearly Sane]

Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cozy, doesn't try it on.


Billy Connolly

[Aruntraveller]

"My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species" - Joni Mitchell

[Aruntraveller]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

Carl Sagan (30 years ago)

[Nearly Sane]

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time — when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”

Carl Sagan (30 years ago)

And another from him

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

Carl Sagan

[Nearly Sane]

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[Aruntraveller]

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -

[Nearly Sane]

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[Nearly Sane]

“If you want an experienced public servant, vote for me. But if you want to believe a bunch of crazy promises about garbagemen cleaning your gutters and waxing your car, then by all means vote for this sleazy lunatic.”

The Simpsons

[Aruntraveller]

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

[Nearly Sane]

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

I cannot help be reminded of this, yet again


https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming