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*** "No More Lockdown" *** Van Morrison

*** "Stand and Deliver" *** Eric Clapton

A Romanian Folk Tale

I just hope I will be allowed to leave my house this summer and that by the end of the year, and will still be able to have a job so that I may put food on the table for my family and pay my taxes.

“When the people clamour to be shielded from reality, when they praise their government for keeping things from them, when they choose to conduct their lives within the limits of whatever fantasy the government supplies, then they are no longer consenting to be governed, they are begging to be ruled.” — Michael Ventura

Let's kill all the lawyers; Quote from Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2 "Let's kill all the lawyers" is a line from William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2. The full quote is "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". It is among Shakespeare's most famous lines, as well as one of his most controversial.

(1933; MGM Studios)


December 2024 - January 2025 

On “Crimestop”
The first and simplest stage of discipline, which can be taught even to young children, is called in Newspeak, Crimestop. 
Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. 
It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest 
arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of 
leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.
George Orwell, 1984