The fool has an absolute right to life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness; but they have no right to rule over the wise & the just; for if allowed to do so; they will almost certainly eradicate those Three Precious Freedoms; not only for themselves; but for everyone else.
@SouthieGirl06@PeteHegseth The so-called "normal" person is not normal in any absolute sense; but only in their relationship to a profoundly abnormal world...
@IMPERATORAUS A good liberal judge gives little weight to precedents that aren't liberal; but a good conservative judge gives great weight to all precedents; liberal & conservative. So the law grows more liberal over time even if the number of conservative & liberal judges is equal.
___Posner
@IMPERATORAUS Nietzsche and Gibbon both agreed that the Catholic Church being made the official religion was the *sine qua non* for the fall of Rome. Christianized in 313 A.D.; Salarian Gate breeched in 410 A.D.
@IMPERATORAUS In The Golden Bough by Frazer; he says something to the effect that man is an incredibly savage entity; varnished over with a very thin veneer of paint called “civilization”; and it takes precious little to strip that thin coat of paint and reveal him for what he actually is.
“Do not be afraid of your difficulties. Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.”
___Madame Blavatsky
@IMPERATORAUS With regards to the second part, “success being the 1st step on the path to failure”…success breeds complacency, complacency is the brother of inertia…lack of movement breeds stagnation…stagnation devolves to atrophy & the entity ultimately collapses under its own dead weight.
@IMPERATORAUS 2. money...more money means expansion and “spreading of the word”...until an eventual whirlwind encompasses the land and the change enacted far exceeds the original goals sought by the pioneers of the movement.
@IMPERATORAUS 1. The failures breed resentment, the resentment breeds discontent…but animates agents of the movement into all types of activism…marches, recruitments, protests, fundraising, lawsuits…these actions draw additional followers into the movement…additional members mean (cont.)