Literacy makes possible the state, and universal literacy the omnipotent state.
Jul 292020
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?
Jul 062020
Democracy encourages would-be rulers to act like the people in an abject effort to gain the power to act for them.
Jun 302020
Overrated: State violence
Underrated: Personal violence
Jun 222020
It is difficult to get people you hate to vote for you.
Jun 092020
Until it has the appearance of liberty the prison is not complete.
May 212020
To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs; to make a bigger one you have to break a few more; and to make an enormous, imperishable, world-historical omelet, millions of broken eggs are required.
May 192020
The free stuff is a nice perk of communism, but the real point was always the free love.
May 082020
The speech-censors make their presence known; the thought-censors censor first the thought that they exist.
May 072020
Those who believe that society can be reengineered rarely have much engineering experience.
May 012020
Voting, like tattoos, diverts the urge toward self-expression from more noisome forms like speech.