Helmuth James Graf von Moltke, Executed in Plötzensee Prison, Berlin, 23 January 1945
"If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World
"They defended him, verbally and physically, every time he committed one of his criminal acts. They went blithely on past the suffering of all the bombing victims, the prisoners in the concentration camps, and the religious persecutors, because a different regime would have meant the end of their power. You forget our hatred is a deadly poison. In our hatred, we are like bees who must pay with their lives for the use of their stingers."
Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen, Diary of a Man in Despair, 1947
“Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, or even a duty."
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace, 1947
"As though you could use violent, unjust means and achieve peace and justice. Means determine ends; and must be like the ends proposed. Means intrinsically different from the ends proposed achieve ends like themselves, not like those they were meant to achieve."
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza, 1936
"The safest road to Hell is the gradual one— the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, 1942
Stocks continued to wallow in weakness.
The Dollar chopped sideways.
Gold and silver continued to drift lower.
VIX crept higher to the 50 DMA.
Tomorrow is the Non-Farm Payrolls report with all its attendant hoopla.
This may likely set the direction of the markets.
The Great Beast incites the leaders of other nations into madness.
The innocent are sacrificed to the dark gods of money and power.
We persecute those who reveal the truth, and encourage the madness of whole nations, who follow that madness into hell.
Perhaps it is not too late to stop, and consider what it is we are doing, and whom it is we serve.
Have a pleasant evening.
