“The stupidity and blindness of American power, which, in its own terms is perfectly ‘logical’—and yet its terms are fantastically arbitrary and respond only to the ‘reality’ of a thinking that goes on within an artificial and closed system. To defend your own reality and then impose it forcefully on the outside world is paranoia.”
Thomas Merton
more infosource: October 25, 1967 journal entry in The Other Side of the Mountain: The End of the Journey (New York: HarperCollins, 2010), 5.
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category: delusion, government, paranoia, politics, reality, war
medium: Journal
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress. It’s time for our government to get serious about shared sacrifice.”
Warren Buffett
more infosource: “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” The New York Times, August 14, 2011.
category: congress, government, money, politics
medium: Op-Ed
“The end of an Empire is messy at best
And this Empire is ending
Like all the rest”
Randy Newman
more infosource: “A Few Words in Defense of Our Country,” Harps and Angels (Nonesuch, August, 2008).
category: alpha, change, civilization, empire, government, greed, history, power
medium: lyrics
government