#attraction

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A quotation from La Bruyere

If it is usual to be strongly impressed with things rare and extraordinary, how comes it then that Virtue is taken so little notice of?

[S’il est ordinaire d’être vivement touché des choses rares, pourquoi le sommes-nous si peu de la vertu?]

Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) French essayist, moralist
The Characters [Les Caractères], ch. 2 “Of Personal Merit [Du Mérite Personnel],” § 20 (2.20) (1688) [Browne ed. (1752)]

#quote #quotes #quotation #attraction #extraordinary #impress #rare #unusual #virtue
Sourcing / notes: https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/65213/

theaitetos@diaspora.psyco.fr

The War on Clown World

One side bans #wickedness. The other side bans any insufficient enthusiasm for wickedness. It’s not really that hard to determine who the #good guys are, and who the #evil servants of #Satan are:

Russian media watchdog Roskomnadzor officially approved on Wednesday an expanded set of criteria for what is to be considered ‘#LGBTQ #propaganda’, which can be grounds to #block access to #websites.

This comes after the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications issued an order to broaden and specify the definitions of #LGBTQ #propaganda and #pedophilia online.

The new set of norms will come into effect on September 1, and will be valid for the next six years, according to the document, which was published on #Russia’s official internet portal of legal information.

Under the order, Roskomnadzor will be authorized to block access to websites that feature content depicting children imitating or taking part in sexual activities, child genitalia in a sexual context, information about obtaining, creating, or sharing #child #pornography, as well as content aimed at #provoking #sexual #attraction towards #children or #justifying #sexual #relations with #minors.

In case you don’t understand why I am very, very pleased to be among the #Unauthorized, all I can say is that if you’re not persona non grata among the #wicked of #ClownWorld, you really need to contemplate whether you are truly on the side of the Good, the Beautiful, and the True or not.

Because Clown World is at war with everything good, everything beautiful, and everything true.

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A quotation by Twain, Mark

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]

Mark Twain’s Notebook [ed. Paine (1935)]

#quotation #quote #attraction #desire #forbidden #forbidden-fruit

More notes and sourcing on WIST: https://wist.info/twain-mark/48190/