21-10-2015, 04:13 AM
R.K. Locke Wrote:I've recommended it on here before but it bears repeating: Guido Preparata's book The Ideology of Tyranny is an excellent analysis of the philosophical roots of both neoconservatism and postmodernism. Here is a relevant excerpt:
http://guidopreparata.com/chpg/TIOT-8.pdf
An excellent book indeed! A trifle more complex than many care to deal with...but essential reading to understand where we are and how we got 'here'!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass