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November 13, 2019 - January 13, 2020
Bakunin, Nietzsche, Mao, Bookchin—these people’s comprehensible thoughts lay like unexpected pebbles on a long beach of gibberish.
Max Planck once said that a new paradigm takes over not when it convinces its opponents, but when its opponents eventually die.�
colonialism had never died, he used to declare, it just changed names and hired local cops. We’re all colonies of the transnats.
What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one’s options, and reduce one’s freedom. One became a servant of one’s wealth or power, constrained to spend all one’s time protecting it. So that properly seen, the freedom of a scientist with a lab at his command was the highest freedom possible. Any more wealth and power only interfered with that.
