To be represented is the smallest aspiration.
Jan 302019
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Jan 282019
Progressive mores, which in the name of equality must be preached to and adopted by all, are mildly toxic to about a tenth of the population, crippling to two-thirds, and potentially fatal to the rest. For a few grifters they make a lucrative career.
Jan 172019
The savage’s hatred of the civilized man does little harm, unless abetted by the civilized man’s hatred of himself.
Jan 082019
Leninism is not communist any more than Catholicism is Christian: they are programs for the respective containment of communism and Christianity.
Jan 032019
Dullness is so prevalent in high places that it has come to be regarded as an obligation.
Dec 212018
There are worse ways to judge a government than if the trains run on time.
Dec 072018
Written history is mostly war, and the surest way to be remembered is to start one.
Nov 152018
Democracy dies at scale.
Nov 022018
State terror denotes resistance: eventually it can be dispensed with.
Nov 012018
The rulers, the ruled, and the theoreticians of rule alike always interest themselves more in who shall rule than how.