"if a fundamental element of human nature is the need for creative work without the arbitrary limiting effects of coercive institutions, then it follows that a decent society should maximize the possibilities for this need to be realized."

in a system where a tree is worth more, dead than alive, we will continue destroying trees. since we are worth more when we are spending time staring at certain things, rather than others, we will continue to be manipulated, in effect diverting our attention from our goals&lives

shame

À propos de la suspension des comptes de #Trump sur les réseaux sociaux, Mme Merkel a raison : «Il est possible d'interférer dans la liberté d'expression, mais selon les limites définies par le législateur, et non par la décision d'une direction d'entreprise».

There are over 50,000 Cuban doctors in almost 70 countries around the world. Cuba is a state sponsor of health.

What's so tragic about what's happening is that the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s grew out of left wing politics. Many of the key 1st Amendment decisions were from leftists jurists. Nobody embodies the Left and Free Speech better than Chomsky. Just listen to him:

Anyone who posts accurate info about countries targeted by US imperialism is going to be completely muzzled by this

❗️❗️❗️Сегодня люди должны понимать: вся беда - в системе олигархического капитализма. Однако подчеркну: от замены одного жулья на другое - еще более предательское - будет только хуже. России нужна именно смена системы!

a fake democracy is better than insolent despotism, as it is in becoming, an unenforced law is better than not having the law at all, as it is easier to apply the law than making, an unexamined life is still worth living, since one never knows whether the wind will start blowing

“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you”

Aliens told me that the meek will inherit the earth..after the rich destroy it and colonize another planet

"Deos fortioribus adesse" a roman proverb meaning the gods are on the side of the stronger

"a text is only brought into being when it comes into contact with its readers and therefore depending on who those readers are and the surrounding cultural context, it comes to mean something."

i get surprised therefore you are