Awolfuncaged

those living in the darkness of their imagination can and will be used. led to the proverbial slaughter house... only the strong shall survive... or in other words only those who live by truth... who love the truth... with all their heart, soul and might... will prevail...

The Highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. Baruch Spinoza

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasure but the foolish to be a slave to them. Epictetus

Everyone around you. will appreciate you if your words match your actions... Mahatma Gandhi

“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.” ~ Otto von Bismarck

Some things in the world are up to us, while others are not. Up to us are our faculties of judgment, *motivation, *desire, and *aversion- in short, everything that is our own doing. Not up to us are our body and property, our reputations, and our official positions... in short, everything that is not our own doing. Moreover, the things up to us are naturally free, unimpeded, and unconstrained while the things not up to us are powerless, servile, impeded, and not our own.

“I will keep constant watch over myself and most usefully... will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil... that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which we are about to do. And yet our plans for the future descend from the past.” —SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 83.2

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. An excerpt from Edward Bernay's 1928 book Propaganda

So we need to hurry. Not just because we move daily closer to death but also because our understanding...our grasp of the world may be gone before we get there.