Saturday, March 07, 2009

Blissful Ignorance

I just read a great article on Lewrockwell.com and wanted to share. Here is a sample to whet your appetite.
"I once spent part of a Ron Paul event drinking and smoking with some bearded kid who was dressed as a giant purple dinosaur. We leaned against the bar, he was trying to sell me on the merits of "riding out the coming storm" in Quito, Ecuador and the female bartender delivered every shot with an accompanying warning about One World Government. I couldn’t help to feel a bit like a lunatic."
Click here for the full article.

Friday, March 06, 2009

Cat Hearding

 

"Perhaps your grip on reality is not quite as firm as you might have hoped" - Todd Connelly


"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. -Learned Hand, jurist (1872-1961)

What does all of this do to the best minds among the students? Most of them endure their college years with the teeth-clenched determination of serving out a jail sentence. The psychological scars they acquire in the process are incalculable. But they struggle as best they can to preserve their capacity to think, sensing dimly that the essence of the torture is an assault on their mind. And what they feel toward their school ranges from mistrust to resentment to contempt to hatred – intertwined with a sense of exhaustion and excruciating boredom.

--Ayn Rand Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal