"There are children of God and the children of the devil. Those who do not do what is right and who do not love their brothers and sisters are not the children of God."
1 John 3:10
"The never ending alarms, the never ending phrases, it all produces apathy. There is so much lethargy in the German people, and so much immorality, and above all so much stupidity."
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1933-41
“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. Power is not a means; it is an end.”
George Orwell, 1984
"He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the foolish person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers From Prison
"What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. 'The weak and the flawed shall perish' is the first principle of our charity. And one should help them to perish. What is more harmful than any vice? Christian love."
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
"Why take a government by force when you can delude the public, energize a vocal minority, eliminate a few key leaders of any effective opposition thereby setting an example for any others, and through coercion and soft bribery simply buy it?"
Jesse, A Corporatist Coup d'Etat, 2 August 2012
Stocks were rallying in celebration of the liberation of Venezuela's oil reserves for the friends of crony capitalism.
Gold and silver rose sharply, buoyed by the increasing risks of lawlessness, rising like a phoenix from the decaying corpse of vanity.
VIX is mesmerized by the wizards of finance.
The dollar took a nose dive, but retains its seat of power.
Bitcoin is bouncing around the upper bound of its recent trading range.
We will be seeing more serious economic news on Wednesday.
The rich man replied, ‘No, Father Abraham! But if someone is sent to them from the dead, then they will repent of their sins and turn to God.’ But Abraham said, ‘If they won’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded, even if someone rises from the dead.’” Luke 16:19-31
What a man sows, so shall he reap.
And they never see it coming.
Have a pleasant evening.
