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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.
“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.”
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…
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
February 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Maybe, just maybe… #billionaires #gullible
February 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Maybe, just maybe… #billionaires #gullible
February 13, 2025 at 8:18 PM
February 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
February 13, 2025 at 12:27 AM
