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Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ..John F. Kennedy Conformity is the great undiscussed disease of modern life. Epicurus would , were he alive today, be constantly warning us against it. Huge blocs of "public opinion", formed by priests, schools, so-called pundits the biased blather of the media are exploited …
What will they say of us when we are gone, When it dawns on them all that their grandparents knew (As they wrestle with flooding, starvation and storms),Of the turmoil their world would be struggling through? What will they think of us (selfishly setUpon motors and holidays, easily bought) And the choking pollution discharged in …
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"Is this the land of dear old AdamAnd beautiful Mother Eve?If so dear reader small blame to themFor sinning and having to leave." Quoted in "Farewell the Trumpets, an Imperial Retreat", by James Morris.
The Bush administration has been famously populated either by the corrupt or by incompetents who couldn’t manage a third class brothel. But the fear is that this is not just bad deciding by The Decider but a more sinister trend: the country is so dumbed down that educated and literate good people (folks!) are becoming …
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The language used by the pro-war faction in the US is implicitly attacked by an official phrasebook produced by the British Government, which seeks to reverse the impression that the British believe all Moslems are terrorists, and avoids making direct links between the Moslem religion and crimes against the innocent. . It wants civil servants …
