The rulers, the ruled, and the theoreticians of rule alike always interest themselves more in who shall rule than how.
Nov 012018
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?
Oct 302018
Orthodoxy’s palace guard paints and probably sees itself as an embattled and powerless minority, defending unpopular truths without fear or favor.
Oct 182018
There are always things you can’t say. Repression is measured by how many obviously true things you can’t say.
Oct 162018
Fascism is often confused with a shave, haircut, and shoeshine.
Oct 082018
“Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out” would be a fine description of communism except that it is atheistic, and thus the dead go unsorted.
Oct 052018
High civilizations are lost not in battle but by forfeit.
Sep 202018
Modern democracy has nearly perfected itself; that the people can still occasionally make their wishes known remains its one flaw.
Sep 102018
Once memory has been centralized it can be destroyed.
Aug 302018
When you hear a proposed law or policy described as “common sense,” run for your life. Common sense doesn’t scale.
Aug 282018
If you must be the victim of a grotesque law or policy, be first, or photogenic, and it may pay you back in fame. The rest go unnoticed.