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Wisdom From Steve Jobs On The Coming System Reset
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Steve Jobs used to tell a very inspiring story about an article he read in Scientific American when he was a boy:
He said that the article measured the ‘efficiency of locomotion’ of various species– essentially how many calories different animals spend getting from Point A to Point B.
The most efficient of all? Not human beings. Not by a long shot. It was the condor. The condor expended the least amount of energy per meter or kilometer traveled. Human beings were pretty far down the list.
But as Jobs recounts, the authors had the foresight to also test the efficiency of a human being on a bicycle. And this absolutely blew all the other species away.
Jobs later said that this was incredibly influential on his thinking because he realized that human beings were fundamentally tool creators. We take our situation, however grim or rudimentary, and we make it better.
There’s undoubtedly a lot of bad news in the world these days. Some people realize it. Others refuse to believe it and stick their heads in the sand.
Our century-old monetary system is unraveling before our very eyes.
This absurd structure in which we award a tiny central banking elite with the dictatorial power to control the money supply in their sole discretion is now drowning the world in paper currency.
ALL financial markets are manipulated by central banks, predominantly the Federal Reserve. One woman– Janet Yellen– has the power to affect the prices of nearly everything on the planet, from the wholesale price of coffee in Colombia to the cost of a luxury flat in Hong Kong.
Moreover, politicians in some of the most ‘advanced’ economies in the world (Japan, the US, France, the UK, etc.) have accumulated so much debt that they have to borrow money just to pay interest on the money they have already borrowed.
They have indebted generations who will not even be born for decades.
They wage endless, costly wars. They spy on their citizens. They tell people what they can and cannot put in their bodies. They confiscate private property and wages at the point of a gun.
They abuse the population with legions of heavily armed government agents. They conjure so many codes, rules, regulations, laws, and executive orders that it becomes nearly impossible for an individual to exist without being guilty of some innocuous, victimless crime.
And they arrogantly masquerade the entire ruse as a free society.
This system is on the way out. It will reset.
Like feudalism before, our system will go the way of the historical dust bin. And future historians will look back (just as we view feudalism) and say “why did they put up with that nonsense…?
This reset is nothing to fear. Human beings are incredible creatures who have a long-term track record of growth. We rise. We progress.
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The problem with the whole system is that goods and services are no longer being priced in a fair manner.
A guy sitting in Wall St who advises people to plant money in high flying stocks like Apple makes far more dollars than the guys (engineers, technicians) who makes the iMachines at Apple.
Can someone explain to me what this "Tits and ass baby. Tits and ass." thing is that keeps appearing and getting many downvotes? It seems unpopular, yet ubiquitous. A seemingly cynical commentary that gets aggressively downvoted whenever it appears. Too cynical even for this site, I guess? Is it the casualness of the cynicism that inspires such negative response? The refusal to take the whole thing seriously, reducing it to the simple phrase, "Tits and ass baby. Tits and ass." while others work so hard to make their points? Or is it more of a dismisal, a smart-ass way of saying "THIS is what I think of your ideas, and the horse they rode in on."?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouub45fF_MQ
From the Original "About Last Night".- 1986
One of Belushi's comments when he tries to console Lowe's Character.
Jobs suffered from the illusion that all scientific discovery means 'progress'. Humans overall are still apes but with bigger brains. Unfortunately most humans are still governed by the limbic part of the brain.
Steve Jobs suffered from a condition called Magical Thinking: the notion that your thoughts can change the world around you. It ultimately brought on his own demise as he refused treatment for his cancer, since he thought he could fight the cancer with his mind. Of course, when his family finally persuaded him to get treatment it was too late...
So, not the kind of guy you want to take advice from.
About the article: yes things will change, a new system will come about. If you open your eyes you will see all the ingredients materialising. Invest in knowledge and people (and technology) and you will be fine throughout the change.
Thoughts do change the world,. Thoughts => action.
Just as most people on the planet do not own a bicycle nor the know-how and materials to build one, most of the people on the planet don't have the ability to manage the fiat currency system... It is controlled and managed by the .01% and it works swimmingly well for them. It is an outstanding tool to give them the ability to make slaves of everyone else.
So I see the analogy, but I interpret it differently.
Fuck Simon Black and Fuck Steve Jobs.
The FBI called Steve Job's a compulsive liar and not a man to be trusted, FACT,... go read his FBI files that were released upon his death.
Steve is dead ( fucking the dead is a crime in California? I think ), but Fucking Simon Black, would it be mouth fucking, or anal? Have any unicorns had their way with Mr. Black?
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Steve Job's was an asshole, but that's what it take's to get rich, ... FACT.
Steve like Bob Marley got his cancer from the US Government, Steve was a hold-out to spying and NSA/CIA wanted APPLE iPhone and bad, note it wasn't until STEVE was DEAD, that the NSA took control of Apple.
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Steve hated the US Government and they hated him,... but what about Simon Black? Me thinks that the GUBMINT loves Mr. Black.
'Bath-House-Black', has a ring to it??
The reason I said "fuck Simon Black" is because I'm sick and tired of libertarian dipshits acting like feudalism was some kind of crime against humanity. Feudalism is a natural, organic, self-sustaining system that has worked for thousands of years because it comports with human and divine reality. Feudalism and monarchy are the solution, not the problem.
Well its sort of a triangulation, you got Steven Job's and Guy Kawasaki; all selling swamp gas to liberals; Job's & Kawasaki were selling fake jewelry before they discovered 'computers'; Simon Black sells' Fake Utopia to libertarians.
Feudalism would be fine, in terms of the lifestyle. Are you going to be a king or a serf? I honestly don't see much difference now.
+100 years ago, Field nigger, house nigger, plantation owner.
Today, White collar(banker), blue collar(policeman), Gold Collar (oligarch). It's all the fucking same.
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I can't really tell if Black is a "libertarian dipshit", but certainly Guy Kawasaki and Steve Jobs, were what we call 'out of town guys in K-mart suits', hustling the local's with snake-oil.
Mr. Black try's to get Morons to give dictators in Panama or Zimbabwe $50K USD to "BUY A PASSPORT", that's not much different than the Kawasaki/Job's "fake rolex".
What do these guy's really believe? WHo gives a fuck. Black is not catering to the liberal, he's catering to the 'libertarian idiot with money', who thinks he can "BUY" soveriegnty. Job's/Kawasaki were selling RELIGION, BUY-APPLE and belong to a family every bit as fucked up as scientology, but targetted to LIBERAL's.
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I like feudalism too, it would be better living on a farm, and having castle nearby for party's at night, ... sure as hell wouldn't want to be on southern slave plantation, or a 1890's 18 hour/day factory. So yes feudalism would be just fine, go back to nature,... fuck, eat, and live.
People who DISS feudalism, are metro-sexual girly-men who fear a day's work, and a romp in the hay with a wench.
Ellison called Jobs this generation's Edison. after delving into the history behind the history of both men, it seems that statement is pretty dead-on. when one traces back even further, one can see JDRock's life to have a very similar thread.
call me nutty, but i don't think any of this is coincindence. America has always been the Land of the Con Men. Twain knew this way back when, so did Melville even earlier. it's part of the foundation of what makes America "America".
there is another thread running through america however. 'tis a pity you gave up on it before making an effort to wake it from its slumber. understand why, but don't sell it short, as it might have a much longer timeline than America itself.
I'm good with that - I'll be king and lord, and you can be serf and peasant.
FU2
It must be getting bad for guys like you to show up on an article like this. Then again, it's ideas that you're opposed to. General thuggery suits your taste much more.
Great article - Thank you Simon
This is a highly destabilizing technology that will significantly contribute to the reset (decentralized civilization - live anywhere):
This clean energy technology using nickel and hydrogen will be emerging onto the market this year or next. According to Forbes.com it will energy "too cheap to meter." It is a silver bullet solution to cutting emissions, because people will switch rapidly to this clean energy technology, not because we dictate to them to cut emissions, but because the technology will save them money big-time. Here is a primer (I have much more material, but this is just an introduction for the sake of space):
Check out this third-party verification of a LENR reactor that will soon hit the market: http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.3913
"Given the deliberately conservative choices made in performing the measurement, we can reasonably state that the E-Cat HT is a non-conventional source of energy which lies between conventional chemical sources of energy and nuclear ones." (i.e. about five orders of magnitude more energy dense than gasoline, and a COP of almost 6).
This phenomenon (LENR) has been confirmed in hundreds of published scientific papers: http://lenr-canr.org/acrobat/RothwellJtallyofcol.pdf
"LENR has the demonstrated ability to produce excess amounts of energy, cleanly, without hazardous ionizing radiation, without producing nasty waste.” - Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist at NASA Langley Research Center
"Total replacement of fossil fuels for everything but synthetic organic chemistry." --Dr. Joseph M. Zawodny, NASA
By the way, here is a survey of some of the companies that are bringing LENR to commercialization: http://www.cleantechblog.com/blog/2011/08/the-new-breed-of-energy-cataly...
For those who still aren't convinced, here is a paper I wrote that contains some pretty convincing evidence: http://coldfusionnow.org/the-evidence-for-lenr
nickel and hydrogen i dont think so. that not going to produce enough energy to light a LED let alone drive a car pallladium on the other hand would most likey move a car
So how does a device, any device, solve the world debt crisis?
The invention of the printing press was supposed to do that.
the world debt crisis is a virtual construct that sustains the illusion of growth by exploiting finite resources to harvest supposedly scarce energy to do work that hopefully multiplies greater than the compounded interest charged on the debt.
the device sounds like a game changer to me (IF it's legit).
maybe Kyle was giving a clue in his stockpile nickels call?
I love the idea but I'm suspicious because of the baloney part;
"He also hired Sergio Focardi, a physicist from the University of Bologna who is an acknowledged expert in field."
So my takeaway from this article is that when TSHTF, I'd better own a bicycle to make my escape.
Or a condor.
Uh ... I think Jobs was dead months before anyone even considered Yellen for Fed chair, but if he was THAT prescient then that's the story, not the obvious ....
Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of cotton
Jump down turn around, pick a bale of hay
Tools will make your burdens less cumbersome.
You won't have to climb to the top of the apple tree if you have a long branch with a catch bag at the top of it.
If you want to figure out a way to do something other than the dreaded drudgery, you can think of a way to do it to eliminate much of the dreaded drudgery.
What can be done to make the job easier, less of a chore?
Find the jawbone of an ass and use it for a plow.
Find some iron ore, go get some coal, smelt it down to steel and make a steel plow, dammit.
Build a car and burn oil, not ride a horse and have a hay burner. Why ride in a saddle when you can ride in a heated seat in the winter and air conditioned comfort when it's too hot?
Move to town and build tools instead of sittin' out in the country trying to raise a crop and some cattle while butchering chickens for some supper.
Oh when dem cotton balls get rotten, you can't pick very much cotton, in dem ol cotton fields back home
It was down in Louisiana, just about a mile from the Texarkana, in dem ol cotton fields back home
Another day, another 88 million barrels of oil to burn.
So the more we reduce our energy expenditures (burn calories) to get from point A to point B via these ever more efficient locomotions, and the more we have convinced ourselves we have to eat either fast food, or other restaurant-produced processed, high calorie and fat laden foods the more we contribute to the GDP health care services being treated for heart disease, diabetes, etc. So I guess it's a net win for the industrial elites...
Also very prevalent is how youth, since especially the 90's and 2000's have traded in their brain cells so they can use Steve Job's tools. No longer are the younger set exercising their minds by researching, determining solutions, composing and producing argumentative results to demonstrate their findings. Rather, a quick google, copy-n-paste and voila! assignment done. Plenty of time to jump in the car, expend few calories getting to the Frat Party or the closest B-dubs, consume massive quantities of chicken wings and beer and afterwords cruise back in their so-called green cars, plop down and surf some porn, expend a few calories 'enjoying' the porn, then off to pass out in bed. Net result is more dead brain cells, more cholesterol, and a few steps closer to becoming addicted to Obamacare and other federal handouts...
and another useful idiot.
That ape in "2001: A Space Odessey" learned how to use tools.
Now we have rail guns.
Fuck Jobs. Can't he stay dead.
Thousands of years ago, the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burned at the stake he had taught his brothers to light. He was considered an evildoer who had dealt with a demon mankind dreaded. But thereafter men had fire to keep them warm, to cook their food, to light their caves. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had lifted darkness off the earth. Centuries later, the first man invented the wheel. He was probably torn on the rack he had taught his brothers to build. He was considered a transgressor who ventured into forbidden territory. But thereafter, men could travel past any horizon. He had left them a gift they had not conceived and he had opened the roads of the world.
That man, the unsubmissive and first, stands in the opening chapter of every legend mankind has recorded about its beginning. Prometheus was chained to a rock and torn by vultures - because he had stolen the fire of the gods. Adam was condemned to suffer - because he had eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge. Whatever the legend, somewhere in the shadows of its memory mankind knew that its glory began with one and that that one paid for his courage.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received - hatred. The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.
No creator was prompted by a desire to serve his brothers, for his brothers rejected the gift he offered and that gift destroyed the slothful routine of their lives. His truth was his only motive. His own truth, and his own work to achieve it in his own way. A symphony, a book, an engine, a philosophy, an airplane or a building - that was his goal and his life. Not those who heard, read, operated, believed, flew or inhabited the thing he had created. The creation, not its users. The creation, not the benefits others derived from it. The creation which gave form to his truth. He held his truth above all things and against all men.
His vision, his strength, his courage came from his own spirit. A man's spirit, however, is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego.
The creators were not selfless. It is the whole secret of their power - that it was self-sufficient, self-motivated, self-generated. A first cause, a fount of energy, a life force, a Prime Mover.
The creator served nothing and no one. He had lived for himself.
And only by living for himself was he able to achieve the things which are the glory of mankind. Such is the nature of achievement.
Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. Man has no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons, and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from a single attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
But the mind is an attribute of the individual. There is no such thing as a collective brain. There is no such thing as a collective thought. An agreement reached by a group of men is only a compromise or an average drawn upon many individual thoughts. It is a secondary consequence. The primary act - the process of reason - must be performed by each man alone. We can divide a meal among many men. We cannot digest it in a collective stomach. No man can use his lungs to breathe for another man. No man can use his brain to think for another. All the functions of body and spirit are private. They cannot be shared or transferred.
We inherit the products of the thought of other men. We inherit the wheel. We make a cart. The cart becomes an automobile. The automobile becomes an airplane. But all through the process what we receive from others is only the end product of their thinking. The moving force is the creative faculty which takes this product as material, uses it and originates the next step. This creative faculty cannot be given or received, shared or borrowed. It belongs to single, individual men. That which it creates is the property of the creator. Men learn from one another. But all learning is only the exchange of material. No man can give another the capacity to think. Yet that capacity is our only means of survival.
Nothing is given to man on earth. Everything he needs has to be produced. And here man faces his basic alternative: he can survive in only one of two ways - by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows. The creator faces nature alone. The parasite faces nature through an intermediary.The creator's concern is the conquest of nature. The parasite's concern is the conquest of men.
The creator lives for his work. He needs no other men. His primary goal is within himself. The parasite lives second-hand. He needs others. Others become his prime motive.The basic need of the creator is independence. The reasoning mind cannot work under any form of compulsion. It cannot be curbed, sacrificed or subordinated to any consideration whatsoever. It demands total independence in function and in motive. To a creator, all relations with men are secondary.
The basic need of the second-hander is to secure his ties with men in order to be fed. He places relations first. He declares that man exists in order to serve others. He preaches altruism.
Altruism is the doctrine which demands that man live for others and place others above self.No man can live for another. He cannot share his spirit just as he cannot share his body. But the second-hander has used altruism as a weapon of exploitation and reversed the base of mankind's moral principles. Men have been taught every precept that destroys the creator. Men have been taught dependence as a virtue.
The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves. The relationship produces nothing but mutual corruption. It is impossible in concept. The nearest approach to it in reality - the man who lives to serve others - is the slave. If physical slavery is repulsive, how much more repulsive is the concept of servility of the spirit? The conquered slave has a vestige of honor. He has the merit of having resisted and of considering his condition evil. But the man who enslaves himself voluntarily in the name of love is the basest of creatures. He degrades the dignity of man and he degrades the conception of love. But this is the essence of altruism.
Men have been taught that the highest virtue is not to achieve, but to give. Yet one cannot give that which has not been created. Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of any possible beneficiary. Yet we are taught to admire the second-hander who dispenses gifts he has not produced above the man who made the gifts possible. We praise an act of charity. We shrug at an act of achievement.
Men have been taught that their first concern is to relieve the suffering of others. But suffering is a disease. Should one come upon it, one tries to give relief and assistance. To make that the highest test of virtue is to make suffering the most important part of life. Then man must wish to see others suffer - in order that he may be virtuous. Such is the nature of altruism. The creator is not concerned with disease, but with life. Yet the work of the creators has eliminated one form of disease after another, in man's body and spirit, and brought more relief from suffering than any altruist could ever conceive.
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal of virtue. But the creator is the egotist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge, or act. These are functions of the self.
Here the basic reversal is most deadly. The issue has been perverted and man has been left no alternative - and no freedom. As poles of good and evil, he was offered two conceptions: egotism and altruism. Egotism was held to mean the sacrifice of others to self. Altruism - the sacrifice of self to others. This tied man irrevocably to other men and left him nothing but a choice of pain: his own pain borne for the sake of others or pain inflicted upon others for the sake of self. When it was added that man must find joy in self-immolation, the trap was closed. Man was forced to accept masochism as his ideal - under the threat that sadism was his only alternative. This was the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.
This was the device by which dependence and suffering were perpetuated as fundamentals of life.
The choice is not self-sacrifice or domination. The choice is independence or dependence. The code of the creator or the code of the second-hander. This is the basic issue. It rests upon the alternative of life or death. The code of the creator is built on the needs of the reasoning mind which allows man to survive. The code of the second-hander is built on the needs of a mind incapable of survival. All that which proceeds from man's independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man's dependence upon men is evil.
The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man - and he asks no other man to exist for him. This is the only form of brotherhood and mutual respect possible between men.
Degrees of ability vary, but the basic principle remains the same: the degree of a man's independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man. Independence is the only gauge of human virtue and value. What a man is and makes of himself; not what he has or hasn't done for others. There is no substitute for personal dignity. There is no standard of personal dignity except independence.
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him a commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange. If they do not desire it, they are not forced to deal with each other. They seek further. This is the only possible form of relationship between equals. Anything else is a relation of slave to master, or victim to executioner.
No work is ever done collectively, by a majority decision. Every creative job is achieved under the guidance of a single individual thought. An architect requires a great many men to erect his building. But he does not ask them to vote on his design. They work together by free agreement and each is free in his proper function. An architect uses steel, glass, concrete, produced by others. But the materials remain just so much steel, glass and concrete until he touches them. What he does with them is his individual product and his individual property. This is the only pattern for proper co-operation among men.
The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men. This includes the whole sphere of his creative faculty, his thinking, his work. But it does not include the sphere of the gangster, the altruist and the dictator.
A man thinks and works alone. A man cannot rob, exploit or rule - alone. Robbery, exploitation and ruling presuppose victims. They imply dependence. They are the province of the second-hander.
Rulers of men are not egotists. They create nothing. They exist entirely through the persons of others. Their goal is in their subjects, in the activity of enslaving. They are as dependent as the beggar, the social worker and the bandit. The form of dependence does not matter.But men were taught to regard second-handers - tyrants, emperors, dictators - as exponents of egotism. By this fraud they were made to destroy the ego, themselves and others. The purpose of the fraud was to destroy the creators. Or to harness them. Which is a synonym.From the beginning of history, the two antagonists have stood face to face: the creator and the second-hander. When the first creator invented the wheel, the first second-hander responded. He invented altruism.
The creator - denied, opposed, persecuted, exploited - went on, moved forward and carried all humanity along on his energy. The second-hander contributed nothing to the process except the impediments. The contest has another name: the individual against the collective.The 'common good' of a collective - a race, a class, a state - was the claim and justification of every tyranny ever established over men. Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equaled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism? Does the fault lie in men's hypocrisy or in the nature of the principle?
The most dreadful butchers were the most sincere. They believed in the perfect society reached through the guillotine and the firing squad. Nobody questioned their right to murder since they were murdering for an altruistic purpose. It was accepted that man must be sacrificed for other men. Actors change, but the course of the tragedy remains the same. A humanitarian who starts with declarations of love for mankind and ends with a sea of blood. It goes on and will go on so long as men believe that an action is good if it is unselfish. That permits the altruist to act and forces his victims to bear it. The leaders of collectivist movements ask nothing for themselves. But observe the results.
The only good which men can do to one another and the only statement of their proper relationship is - Hands off!
Now observe the results of a society built on the principle of individualism. This, our country. The noblest country in the history of men. The country of greatest achievement, greatest prosperity, greatest freedom. This country was not based on selfless service, sacrifice, renunciation or any precept of altruism. It was based on a man's right to the pursuit of happiness. His own happiness. Not anyone else's. A private, personal, selfish motive. Look at the results. Look into your own conscience.
It is an ancient conflict. Men have come close to the truth, but it was destroyed each time and one civilization fell after another. Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
Now, in our age, collectivism, the rule of the second-hander and second-rater, the ancient monster, has broken loose and is running amuck. It has brought men to a level of intellectual indecency never equaled on earth. It has reached a scale of horror without precedent. It has poisoned every mind. It has swallowed most of Europe. It is engulfing our country.
It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.
I know what is to come by the principle on which it is built. We are approaching a world in which I cannot permit myself to live. No one can be held to account. Such is the nature of all collective action. Those who were concerned with the poor had to come to me, who have never been concerned, in order to help the poor. It is believed that the poverty of the future tenants gave them a right to my work. That their need constituted a claim on my life. That it was my duty to contribute anything demanded of me. This is the second-hander's credo now swallowing the world. I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. The integrity of a man's creative work is of greater importance than any charitable endeavor. Those of you who do not understand this are the men who're destroying the world.
I am a man who does not exist for others. These are my my terms. I do not care to exist on any others. I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society.
- Ein Rand 1938
Post a link you annoying fuck.
Suck it up and scroll you whiny pussy.
"They have indebted generations who will not even be born for decades."
Not if there is mass default.
and all your money won't another minute buy
Classic!
This piece should be titled "Learning the Wrong Lessons from Misappropriated History".
Zero Hedge, this article is hand picked for you and only you. Steve Jobs paraded out on a bicycle leading a parade of clowns railing against evil Central Banking and their army of Spies and Police State actors.
Come on. I'm against the police state. I'm against the violations of the 4th Amendment which I view very broadly. I'm even for Bicycles!
But what is the connection between all these disparate elements? The connection is the Circus Tent in the author's mind.