If you think the bad actors are doing ok :
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.”
― William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 3
If someone gives you something or helps you , it is a natural human instinct to feel obligated to them. Psychopaths consist of roughly 4% of the population, but this can vary its time and place. They do not have this instinct, but they have learnt how to exploit it by lying to, and cheating, non- psychopaths.
“Government” is essentially psychopaths controlling non-psychopaths.
This is why there is no “correct” form of government/political system. Politics is a vicious game played by psychopaths with each other.
Societies change/collapse when non-psychopaths become aware of their exploitation by some means. Politicians try to slow this down by censorship and even imprisoning people who facilitate this awareness. i.e “Hate speech “
Political theories are based on the idea that people are NOT divided into psychopaths and non-psychopaths. Hence : “Equity” “Equal rights” “Human rights” “each according to his ability “
“Societal values” .
It is laughable that Political Science does not discuss psychopathy.
In the past people lived in small groups/villages. By means of gossip, it was very difficult for psychopaths to operate without being discovered. When they were discovered they were made to leave the group, which effectively meant death.
I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over.
Kurt Vonnegut
Do you sincerely want to be rich ?
If you have an open mind, and are a bit sceptical, you can make money by reading things on the internet and acting accordingly .
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“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [OS 7 September] – 13 December 1784), often called Dr Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography calls him "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history"
Samuel Johnson satirist :
Satire uses exaggeration, irony, humor, and sharp ridicule to critique a society, members of a society, and/or social institutions and point out vice, stupidity, and corruption. Samuel Johnson's "London" is a fine example of satire. Let's look at some examples of satire within the poem.
Johnson uses his poem to paint a stark and somewhat exaggerated picture of London. The main speaker is a man who cannot wait to get out of the city. It is filled with violence and corruption, and people are not even safe in their own beds behind locked doors.
Notice the list of horrors presented in the second stanza. The speaker is going to escape all of them, but he cannot help noting that in the city, "the fell Attorney prowls for Prey" and the "female Atheist talks you dead." Here is satire indeed, directed at lawyers and activists.
Greed is rampant in the city, as are theft and perjury. No one can speak the truth without consequence, and the speaker wants to pluck the wings of all the so-called poets and fall asleep over one of London's newspapers. The speaker is denounced for speaking what is right and correcting the wrong. He is "Spurn'd as a Beggar, dreaded as a Spy" for simply being honest. That is how corrupt London has become.
Great men have fallen very low, the speaker continues. "Behold the Warriour dwindled to a Beau," he declares. All virtues have been "refin'd away," and England, represented by London, is not what it once was. It is now "Of France the Mimic, and of Spain the Prey." Even the heights of the theater have taken a turn for the worse. It is vulgar now, and it glorifies lies and vices and criticizes virtue. This is dreadfully ironic, for theater is supposed to do the opposite.
London is simply horrible, according to the speaker, and that is why he is leaving it. But he will not leave it without this satire, which through its exaggeration, ridicule, irony, and even a bit of humor, provides a masterful portrait of the city.
The “dark ages” were dark because supposedly Roman, Greek and Egyptian culture was forgotten/ lost. This has been called into question by many including Isaac Newton, Anatoly Fomenko and Gary Kasparov .
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
William Faulkner
Grass pollen size is 25 micrometers
Coronavirus size 0.1 micrometers
Pollen 250 times bigger.
Masks don’t work for hay fever
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In Italy during WW2 ,18 year old boys were conscripted. Some of them hid in the countryside to avoid it. In order to deter this the authorities started shooting their mothers.
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honest, sincere, and telling the truth, even when this might be awkward or make other people uncomfortable:
a full and frank discussion
There followed a frank exchange of views.
The magazine, which gives frank advice about sex and romance, is aimed at the teenage market.
to be perfectly frank To be perfectly frank with you, I don't think she's the person for the job.
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