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I sometimes think that Dostoevsky had a time machine and witnessed our time:

 

Then we shall give them the quiet humble happiness of weak creatures such as they are by nature. Oh, we shall persuade them at last not to be proud, for Thou didst lift them up and thereby taught them to be proud. We shall show them that they are weak, that they are only pitiful children, but that childlike happiness is the sweetest of all. They will become timid and will look to us and huddle close to us in fear, as chicks to the hen. They will marvel at us and will be awe-stricken before us, and will be proud at our being so powerful and clever that we have been able to subdue such a turbulent flock of thousands of millions. They will tremble impotently before our wrath, their minds will grow fearful, they will be quick to shed tears like women and children, but they will be just as ready at a sign from us to pass to laughter and rejoicing, to happy mirth and childish song. Yes, we shall set them to work, but in their leisure hours we shall make their life like a child’s game, with children’s songs and innocent dance. Oh, we shall allow them even sin, they are weak and helpless, and they will love us like children because we allow them to sin. We shall tell them that every sin will be expiated, if it is done with our permission, that we allow them to sin because we love them, and the punishment for these sins we take upon ourselves. And we shall take it upon ourselves, and they will adore us as their saviours who have taken on themselves their sins before God. And they will have no secrets from us. We shall allow or forbid them to live with their wives and mistresses, to have or not to have children according to whether they have been obedient or disobedient- and they will submit to us gladly and cheerfully. The most painful secrets of their conscience, all, all they will bring to us, and we shall have an answer for all. And they will be glad to believe our answer, for it will save them from the great anxiety and terrible agony they endure at present in making a free decision for themselves.

The Grand Inquisitor, The Brothers Karamozov

The flight from freedom is the core event of the current century.

 

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Philip Nachazel
Philip Nachazel
Monday, August 16, AD 2021 1:12pm

So many are listening to the counsel of the great spirit in our days too.
Told that sinning is ok.
Children snuffed out in Christ’s name.
What a clip.
What a timeless clip.

WoW.

“Go. Don’t come to us anymore.”

How timely.
Great pick Don.
Great and terrible.

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Monday, August 16, AD 2021 1:34pm

In the last video that could have been just about any Cardinal now in the Vatican.

Jeremiah 23:1-4
Ezekiel 34:1-10

Art Deco
Monday, August 16, AD 2021 2:05pm

https://jonathanturley.org/2021/08/16/unconstitutional-but-legal-court-agrees-cdc-does-not-have-the-authority-for-moratorium-before-upholding-moratorium/comment-page-1/#comment-2113877

Did you catch this? Note, the authors of this absurdity (in two sets of judicial opinions) include John Roberts (Bush the Younger appointee), Brett Kavanaugh (Trump appointee), and Dabney Friedrich (Trump appointee).

Art Deco
Monday, August 16, AD 2021 2:08pm

Can someone explain to me how the eviction moratorium is supposed to work? Since when do state judges or local sheriffs take orders from the Centers for Disease Control?

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, August 16, AD 2021 2:58pm

Art,

Public safety/security is the “go-to” alibi of tyrants.

Like much else since say March or April 2020, the so-called eviction moratorium is illegal, totalitarian, and unconstitutional..

Two take-aways.

One, everything that they said and did about the china virus that wasn’t an outright lie meant to steal our freedom was completely wrong. Evidently, they don’t know [expletive-deleted] from shinola about the China virus. We have the lying blind [expletive-deleted] with unlimited power leading us into a deep national ditch.

Two, if they can take [without due process] landlords’ revenues, they also can take your assets. My youngest son is convinced that his generation will have whatever they own over a certain level confiscated by the state. See the academic economist/idiot swine constantly squealing about ‘income inequality’ – the next big lie based on imaginary metrics.

Briefly, in 2020 and early 2021, each American under a certain income level received $3,200 [March 2020: $1,200; December 2020: $600; January 2021 $1,400]; plus $300 weekly [many taking home more $$$ than when they were working] added unemployment insurance payments; plus financial assistance in paying for ACA; plus now they’re getting $300 a month per child; plus etc. Why didn’t they pay their rents? Rib-Eye Steaks instead of chuck chopped? AMC and Robin Hood stocks on sale??? .

Former FDIC Chair Sheila Bair has an article in this week’s Barron’s stating that only $3(?) billion of $34 or $38 (?) billion renters’ China virus lockout hush rent money ever got out to renters that likely really didn’t need anyhow.

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