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"To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it."
~ Plato
~ Plato
“The really hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. “Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.” They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.
These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish “the illusion of individuality,” but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But “uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed.” – Aldous Huxley
These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted, still cherish “the illusion of individuality,” but in fact they have been to a great extent deindividualized. Their conformity is developing into something like uniformity. But “uniformity and freedom are incompatible. Uniformity and mental health are incompatible too. Man is not made to be an automaton, and if he becomes one, the basis for mental health is destroyed.” – Aldous Huxley
Leges bonae malis ex moribus procreantur.
Good laws are produced by bad customs.
-Macrobius.
Good laws are produced by bad customs.
-Macrobius.
Reminds me very much of this quote by Nicolas Gomez Davila: “Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies.”
Out of all the Jack Burton quotes this is what you pick!? Are you crazy? Is that your problem? ?
Some of my favorite Chesterton quotes.
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." 1930
“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” 1931
“My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.” 1923
"Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." 1930
“We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.” 1931
“My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday.” 1923
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” -- Frank Zappa
It's both. The smart people are putting us on by using imbeciles as their front men.
"Masculine Republics give way to feminine Democracies, and feminine Democracies give way to Tyranny."
-Aristotle
-Aristotle
