“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
Not true. Power, money and control are the most tangible things the physical realm has to offer. Power buys control. Money buys control. Control is the ability to dictate events in the physical realm. Control is a vector. A vector is a force with a direction. Given unlimited force and unlimited focus on direction, you can effect many things. You can also affect many things. You can certainly cultivate and maintain fantastic illusions.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." – Socrates
"Communism can be summed up in one sentence: The abolition of private property." ---Karl Marx
"Either you have the right to own property, or you are property." Wayne Hage
midnight rambler (20th November 2020)
Sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch .... If a thing is real these are the tools you have been granted to detect things that have existence. Any other concept is created in the mind. (including COVID19 or the idea that Biden is honorable)
. The illusions you speak of all require a form of energy to maintain. The more fantastic the illusion the more energy required. All illusions eventually fail because the cost of maintaining them has to be born by someone.
Reacting to an illusion is the desired work-product. Illusions are best ignored.
midnight rambler (20th November 2020),osoab (20th November 2020)
I once made an ex-girlfriend literally disappear right before my eyes, didn't even see her and she was a couple of feet in front of me face to face. It was just me and her there. Boy did that ever piss her off!Illusions are best ignored.
"A man is to be held accountable for the thoughts he chooses to entertain." --Richard Alan Miller
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?" --George Orwell
"It's not a matter of what is true (reality) that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true (reality)." --Henry Kissinger
ziero0 (20th November 2020)
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
midnight rambler (20th November 2020)
In the quantum universe things (events) don't happen by chance. They happen because some entity wills them into being.
COVID-19 was willed into being. By who? When? Who gains and who loses? Would COVID-19 have occurred had the senate voted to impeach Trump? The disease was created by a novelist in 1982 although at the time he chose Russia as the source (changed to China in 2008). Did the universe know in 2008 that it would need a disease in 2020?
And if novelists have this kind of prescience does that mean Steven King has been documenting things that are going to happen?
One horror story King has not written about is a Biden presidency. Suppose such a concept was beyond the worst horror of his imagination?
Top Canadian Dr. cuts loose, "...the biggest hoax ever perpetuated..." -
https://79days.news/watch?id=5fb94fcdd4cd4b442fcb11b2
"A man is to be held accountable for the thoughts he chooses to entertain." --Richard Alan Miller
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?" --George Orwell
"It's not a matter of what is true (reality) that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true (reality)." --Henry Kissinger