God’s not unjust, he doesn’t actually exist. We’ve been deceived. If God existed, he’d have made the world more just. – Joseph Stalin

A-level people want to work with A-level people. B-level people want to work with C-level people. … and C-level people do not care whom they work with so long as it’s hard to get fired.

We can change any environment to suit ourselves… so we better start thinking about the long term consequences of those changes. Bill Moyers & Jane Goodall: What Chimps Reveal About Human Brutality, Violence, Compassion and Hope Don’t be so hard on yourself, human – it’s in your nature to take – and react – disproportionately.

We’re slow, dumb, ape-like creatures, and we like to screw. We like to spawn. Even if it kills us all. – Outta Space by Paul Baines  

Nobody in power appears to know how the Customer-Friendly system really works. – The Customer-Friendly System [comments] Nonsense. I’m keeping tabs on everything as we speak. (Proactively, I might add)

Now if you think you do have rights, one last assignment for you. Next time you’re at the computer, get on the Internet, go to Wikipedia. When you get to Wikipedia, in the search field for Wikipedia, I want you to type in “Japanese Americans 1942″ and you’ll find out all about your precious fucking [...]

So why are we so enthusiastically supportive of the myth of The Thing That Will Change Everything? Simple. It’s the Age of Hysteria. Keeping our clients in a state of anxiety is just plain good business. – Bob Hoffman for AdWeek What’s good for the government is good for the advertiser.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann With about 2.0 million civilian employees, the Federal Government, excluding the Postal Service, is the Nation’s largest employer. – Career Guide to Industries, 2010-11 EditionUnited States Department of LaborBureau [...]

Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim’rous beastie,O, what panic’s in thy breastie!Thou need na start awa sae hasty,Wi’ bickering brattle!I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,Wi’ murd’ring pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominionHas broken Nature’s social union,An’ justifies that ill opinion,Which makes thee startle,At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,An’ fellow-mortal! I doubt na, whyles, but [...]

At least once every human should have to run for his life, to teach him that milk does not come from supermarkets, that safety does not come from policemen, that “news” is not something that happens to other people. He might learn how his ancestors lived and that he himself is no different – in [...]