“Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction.... We regain the world by withdrawing from it just a little by stepping back from the noise.”
― David L. Ulin
“Perfection is insane. The entire tyranny of the perfect body, the perfect family, the perfect life is literally a commercial narrative. It has nothing to do with being human.”
— Guillermo del Toro
“Human nature is violent and predatory and can be held in check only by three forces, the Grace of God, the fear of the gallows, and the pressure of a social tradition, subtly and unconsciously operating as a brake on human instinct.”
T.E. Utley
"He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activities in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they'd have no heart to start at all."
~ Cormac McCarthy
.@diykitaponia. The anti-Russian idiocy was well under way in Ukraine in 2010. PETER HITCHENS: One glorious day in Sevastopol, I saw what was coming https://t.co/CmQLaQM4j9 via @MailOnline
This will be in textbooks.
Ukraine secretly delivered FPV drones and wooden mobile cabins into Russia. The drones were hidden under the roofs of the cabins, which were later mounted on trucks.
At the signal, the roofs opened remotely. Dozens of drones launched directly from the trucks, striking strategic bomber aircraft.
And — Russia can’t produce these bombers anymore. The loss is massive.
Nothing like this has ever been done before.
🇷🇺 Oliver Stone: “The last three years have been harrowing for me in the West. I’ve learned, among other things, that the propaganda state in the West is an incredible empire—far bigger and stronger than I ever imagined. We are unable to see, from inside the matrix, the lies that have enveloped us—that Russia and China and Iran and so forth are our mortal enemies. This isn’t true. But we have succumbed to that because our media—the networks and the elitist media—have told us repeatedly, inventing lies about our enemies.
The worst of it was George Orwell. It’s George Orwell time. Imbecilic accusations against Mr. Putin and his Russia. In the old days, even in the worst of the Cold War, we never referred to Russia as ‘Khrushchev’ or ‘Brezhnev.’ That’s what we’re doing now. We call Russia ‘Putin,’ because Putin, for whatever reason, has been personalized. This isn’t policy. This is a tragic—this is a tragic substitution of hatred for intelligence.”
@PeterLBrandt People need you, like oxygen or religion. Because in these dark times when information & data can be misinterpreted while influencers are thirsty to consume our brain&time, we need someone of knowledge, wisdom& experience to guide people to light. Can you kindly consider staying?