He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates

Socrates

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Waiter…there’s a fly in my Hemlock!

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gaywrites: Warms your heart, doesn’t it?  Equality Now!
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Warms your heart, doesn’t it? 

Equality Now!

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Stephen Colberts The Word segment on The Pursuit of Angriness.

A good start, I welcome the day that the last state sees reason!
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A good start, I welcome the day that the last state sees reason!

The government is corrupt
And we’re on so many drugs
With the radio on and the curtains drawn 

We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine
And the machine is bleeding to death 

Dead Flag Blues by Godspeed You Black Emporer

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Stefan Molyneux provides a gruesomely honest analysis of the statist reaction to WikiLeaks. 

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“A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad… . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.”

Albert Camus

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill (via demons)

Those unfamiliar with the work of Mr. Mill are missing a truly illuminated view of an oft tread landscape.

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All control is predicated by the illusion of choice, let’s take the above photo for example, You walk into this empty auditorium, the man sweeping the floor says that you may sit anywhere you like but you must sit in a chair. Most people when presented with this scenario will find a chair that suits them and sit until they forget how to stand, never for a moment considering that it was the illusion of choice that allowed this man to control them. So… same scenario, only this time it is a policeman giving the order for no obvious reason i.e. no imminent danger, however rather than allowing for even the illusion of choice, he instructs you to sit in the third seat in the fourth row. Given the latter scenario I firmly believe that most among us would exercise their actual freedom to choose by either,  A. Sitting immediately on the floor, or B. Selecting a different chair.  Still more if not all of us would instantly recognize that an explicit right of freedom had been taken from us. So there it is, a man with a broom was able to accomplish what a man with a gun could not, simply by providing us with the appearance of an option, in fact, I would consider the Police Officer the more honest of the two men as he was at least forth right with his intentions. So you see, Humanity will never be free, so long as we are content to feel free, so sit down or stand up, just remember who’s holding the broom.
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All control is predicated by the illusion of choice, let’s take the above photo for example,

You walk into this empty auditorium, the man sweeping the floor says that you may sit anywhere you like but you must sit in a chair.

Most people when presented with this scenario will find a chair that suits them and sit until they forget how to stand, never for a moment considering that it was the illusion of choice that allowed this man to control them.

So… same scenario, only this time it is a policeman giving the order for no obvious reason i.e. no imminent danger, however rather than allowing for even the illusion of choice, he instructs you to sit in the third seat in the fourth row.

Given the latter scenario I firmly believe that most among us would exercise their actual freedom to choose by either,  A. Sitting immediately on the floor, or B. Selecting a different chair.  Still more if not all of us would instantly recognize that an explicit right of freedom had been taken from us.

So there it is, a man with a broom was able to accomplish what a man with a gun could not, simply by providing us with the appearance of an option, in fact, I would consider the Police Officer the more honest of the two men as he was at least forth right with his intentions.

So you see, Humanity will never be free, so long as we are content to feel free, so sit down or stand up, just remember who’s holding the broom.