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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
“Greatness,” Letters and Social Aims (1876)
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It sometimes baffles me how the global ruling class, whose core is tiny, manages to hold 99.9% of humankind under its domination.
The criminocrats use every weapon in the book to achieve this, from propaganda to police violence, from bribery to blackmail, from dishonesty to debt.
But one of their main ways of keeping us under control is to split us up into competing sects and camps so that we spend our lives attacking each other rather than focusing on our real enemies, the people at the top of the global pyramid of power.
The leading lights of political, social and religious organisations have all been corrupted and so large numbers of their followers are also corrupted, albeit indirectly and provisionally.
But many people in these various currents are there out of honest conviction.
Their hearts are pure.
They are the uncorrupted.
A long article, and of course there are points I or you will disagree with, but the article is worth reading and considering.
You can say what every you want, as long as you do not say too much negative about the establishment.
Someone dared to speak out his ideas about present times. Well, he pointed the finger in the wrong direction, got imprisoned, tortured, paraded in front of the media, released and put into prison again.
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A quotation by Cicero, Marcus Tullius
All things are tolerable which others have borne and are bearing.
[Sed significat tolerabilia esse, quae et tulerint et ferant ceteri.]
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 3, ch. 23 / sec. 57 (45 BC) [tr. Yonge (1853)]
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