The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assualt on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This has often been the ignornant approach of those who call themselves scientists and technologists.

Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work towards them. A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that it tends to punish mistakes instead of rewarding brilliance.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly towards aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empire, or ( Read more... )

"Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvments always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?"

"Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can be directed for our purposes, but only with in limits that experience reveals. Here is the secret meaning of Free Will."

"Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronoucements made in search of personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question!"

"Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement of power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?"

Thoughts?

"All organized religions face a common problem, a tender stop through which we may enter and shift them to our designs: How do they distinguish hubris from revelation?"

The demonic hellhole from whence I levy out judgement and castigation, the sole source of my infallible might, the one place where I could revel in the pain and suffering of others has at long last lost it's allure. Its nothing more than a played out record, the type which if played again will cause you to hurl yourself off a cliff in search of ( Read more... )

I just popped my cherry, enjoy.