A true initiation never ends.
Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.
By denying death, you guarantee that you will meet him finally in his most hideous form.
Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.
Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.
Each mans spills the drink he loves.
Groups are grammatical fictions; only individuals exist, and each individual is different.
Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
I don't believe anything, but I have many suspicions.
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
I think government should be treated like religion, everyone should be able to pick the kind they like. Only it should be contractual not obligatory.
I'm a libertarian because I don't trust the people as much as anarchists do. I want to see government limited as much as possible; I would like to see it reduced back to where it was in Jefferson's time, or even smaller. But I would not like to see it abolished. I think the average American, if left totally free, would act exactly like Idi Amin. I don't trust the people any more than I trust the government.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
It's important to abolish the unconscious dogmatism that makes people think their way of looking at reality is the only sane way of viewing the world.
Most animals, including most domesticated primates (humans) show a truly staggering ability to 'ignore' certain kinds of information- that which does not 'fit' their imprinted/conditioned reality-tunnel. We generally call this 'conservatism' or 'stupidity,' but it appears in all parts of the political spectrum, and in learned societies as well as in the Ku Klux Klan.
Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.
Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong.
Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence.
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.
There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
Well I sometimes call myself a libertarian but that's only because most people don't know what anarchist means. Most people hear you're an anarchist and they think you're getting ready to throw a bomb at a building.
Without faith we might relapse into scientific or rational thinking, which leads by a slippery slope toward constitutional democracy.
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.
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