“People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.“

- George Orwell

YOU ARE A FOOL WHENEVER YOU START SOMETHING NEW. IF YOU’RE NOT WILLING TO BE A FOOL THEN YOU’LL NEVER START ANYTHING NEW. IF YOU DON’T START ANYTHING NEW THEN YOU’LL NEVER DEVELOP.

THE WILLINGNESS TO BE A FOOL IS THE PRECURSOR TO TRANSFORMATION.

- DR. JORDAN B. PETERSON

“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split.”

Robert E. Howard

Socialism doesn’t work.

Socialism rests on compulsion, its defining ethic is coercion, not equality. Both socialism and capitalism are matrices in that they are economic systems in which one can be generous or greedy, selfish or altruistic. What is unique about socialism is the readiness of the state to deploy coercive force. Of course there are some cases, even under the ethical constructs of classical liberalism, in which the use of such force is deemed as necessary. The state’s use of coercive force and ultimately lethal force is both its most awesome and awful power; for this reason we should dedicate a great deal of effort to tilt the balance as far as we can to limiting it.

The desire for material improvement is a fundamental in human nature and it existed under all systems, communist and feudalist regimes alike. What is unique about capitalism is that it harnesses that ambition to a socially useful end. Under every other system devised by human intelligence, socioeconomic and political hierarchies have been extremely steep and the only way to get to the top was to suck up to those in power, whether they were kings, bishops, or Soviet commissars.

The Western, Anglo-Saxon world uniquely came up with a system that satisfied your ambition by serving your community; allowing you to channel that desire for self-improvement in a socially productive way. That is why socialist countries are not just less wealthy but also less free. That’s the categorical difference between East and West Germany, North and South Korea. It’s not just that socialism doesn’t work in the sense that it fails to provide material advance. It also doesn’t work in that it takes away human dignity and civil rights; above all, our freedom to make choices as autonomous individuals.

sciencevswonder-blog:

““Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.””

— ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (via egosolus)

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We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions.

Bernie Sanders…nah jk that was actually Hitler

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