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“The rulers are generally actuated by love of power; …. Their principal attachment is to pride, with which are often associated cruelty and avarice. The ruled, for the most part, quietly accept their subordinate position and even actual hardship and injustice.”
Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937.
Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937.
August 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
“The rulers are generally actuated by love of power; …. Their principal attachment is to pride, with which are often associated cruelty and avarice. The ruled, for the most part, quietly accept their subordinate position and even actual hardship and injustice.”
Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937.
Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means, 1937.
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Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...
April 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Remember the 6 men who forcibly removed Dr. Teresa Borrenphol from the Coeur d'Alene town hall? They’ve been arrested and charged! www.kivitv.com/news/six-men...
“In the social sphere, our pattern-finders easily see the ways in which people differ… But when we embrace the proposition that all humans are created equal…we can sequester these impressions from our legal and moral decision making, and treat all people equally.”
April 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
“In the social sphere, our pattern-finders easily see the ways in which people differ… But when we embrace the proposition that all humans are created equal…we can sequester these impressions from our legal and moral decision making, and treat all people equally.”
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Amidst all the angst, calm your soul by looking on this thing of beauty.
Karen LaMonte (American, born 1967)
Ojigi Bowing
2010
Cast glass
Karen LaMonte (American, born 1967)
Ojigi Bowing
2010
Cast glass
April 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Amidst all the angst, calm your soul by looking on this thing of beauty.
Karen LaMonte (American, born 1967)
Ojigi Bowing
2010
Cast glass
Karen LaMonte (American, born 1967)
Ojigi Bowing
2010
Cast glass
Planes, trains and automobiles.
April 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Planes, trains and automobiles.
Honestly 😏
April 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Honestly 😏
“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
April 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.”
— Aldous Huxley
— Aldous Huxley
Blue skies ahead…
March 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Blue skies ahead…
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The Future Soldier warfighting structure stands as an impediment to the British Army attaining mass, with reservist unit training withering. That is the view of Professor Vincent Connelly in the latest RUSI Commentary.
Delivering 'Mass' for the British Army: Defence Reviews and Second Echelon Choices
The Future Soldier warfighting structure stands as an impediment to the British Army attaining mass, with reservist unit training withering.
www.rusi.org
March 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Future Soldier warfighting structure stands as an impediment to the British Army attaining mass, with reservist unit training withering. That is the view of Professor Vincent Connelly in the latest RUSI Commentary.
“But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave?”
- David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries , Faber & Faber 2009.
- David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries , Faber & Faber 2009.
March 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“But doesn't any collective belief eventually become a kind of truth? If enough people act as if something is true, isn't it indeed "true," not objectively, but in the sense that it will determine how they will behave?”
- David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries , Faber & Faber 2009.
- David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries , Faber & Faber 2009.
Harbinger of Spring: Crocuses pushing up through the leaves 🍂
March 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Harbinger of Spring: Crocuses pushing up through the leaves 🍂
He has a point.
February 23, 2025 at 7:19 PM
He has a point.
February 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Capitalism is the best of a bad lot, but its benefits could be better distributed.
February 18, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Capitalism is the best of a bad lot, but its benefits could be better distributed.
February 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM