“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"We discover that the fortunes realized by our manufacturers are no longer solely the reward of sturdy industry and enlightened foresight, but that they result from the discriminating favor of the Government and are largely built upon undue exactions from the masses of our people. The gulf between employers and the employed is constantly widening, and classes are rapidly forming, one comprising the very rich and powerful, while in another are found the toiling poor. As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters."
President Grover Cleveland, State of the Union, December 3, 1888
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"But, outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.
I know nothing that I may say can influence you. You have no souls to be influenced. You are spineless, flaccid things. You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-spittles and panderers, the creatures of the plutocracy.”
Jack London, The Iron Heel
"Easy the descent into hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the path; to come out again to the sweet air of Heaven - there is the task, there is the burden."
Virgil, The Aeneid
Hate the game, not the player.
The institutions may provide the opportunity, but it is the person who acts on it. And it is people who warp and corrupt the institutions to make their lawlessness easier, their wickedness seem more acceptable if not fashionable. They cover their darkness with the fig leaf of a corrupt legality.
And there are also those who say that things have always been and always will be laced with corruption. It does not excuse one from their participation in it, even if it is passive compliance. There will always be corruption and evil in the world as long as there are those who are willing to risk damnation for the short term gains from it.
They comfort themselves with the thought that all the finest people are doing it, and they will not be judged for their crimes. Surely God, if he even exists, will not harshly judge such an accomplished person as me. Listen here, don't you know who I am and who I know?
What a sad and shocking experience their eventual reckoning in the judgement of nations will be. As always they will not believe it, or accept it. They will rail and cry against it. And that eternal refusal to accept their just judgement will be their hell, and the hell especially for those who followed and enabled them and their own families into the pit.
Stocks limped along lower today, as the reality of the composure of the markets continues seeming through.
Gold and silver were higher again.
The Dollar slid a little lower.
A little more gold bullion leaked out of the warehouses in Hong Kong.
The lies that pave the way for the ascension of the unspeakable continues.
Need little, want less, love more. Hide yourself with Christ in his humility.
Have a pleasant evening.
