“The idea of a good society is something you do not need a religion and eternal punishment to buttress; you need a religion if you are terrified of death.”
What far too many don't know or realize. Or accept.
"You can't have a war on terrorism because that's not a actual enemy, it's an abstract. It's like having a war on dandruff. That war will be eternal and pointless. It's idiotic. That's not a war, it's a slogan. it's a lie. It's advertising, which is the only art form we ever invented in America. And we use it to sell soap, wars and presidential candidates in the same fashion."
"The great unmentionable evil at the center of our culture is monotheism. From a barbaric Bronze Age text known as the Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved — Judaism, Christianity, Islam. These are sky-god religions. They are, literally, patriarchal — God is the Omnipotent Father — hence the loathing of women for 2,000 years in those countries afflicted by the sky-god and his earthly male delegates. The sky-god is a jealous god, of course. He requires total obedience from everyone on earth, as he is in place not for just one tribe but for all creation. Those who would reject him must be converted or killed for their own good. Ultimately, totalitarianism is the only sort of politics that can truly serve the sky-god's purpose."
Yesterday, September 17, 2012, with exactly 50 days to go before the November presidential election, Mitt Romney imploded:
Mr. Romney's honesty in this video, above, that came out yesterday from Mother Jones, reminds me so immediately and clearly of the rather famous quote from Gore Vidal:
"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country." --On the Media
I also ran across this quote yesterday, by accident:
"The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people." --Woodrow Wilson
For Mittens, it doesn't. He doesn't have the ear, clearly. He's tone deaf. He's tone deaf to the people, anyway. It may be a golden ear but it's deaf.
"Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die." --Gore Vidal, 1925-2012
"Any individual who is able to raise [enough money] to be considered presidential is not going to be much use to the people at large. He will represent...whatever moneyed entities are paying for him.... Hence, the sense of despair throughout the land as incomes fall, businesses fail and there is no redress." --Gore Vidal, "The Decline and Fall of the American Empire"; 1992.
"You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country." --Gore Vidal, in an interview with Paul Jay, The Real News, July 5, 2009.
"We are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing." -Gore Vidal, "The State of the Union," The Nation, September 13, 2004.
(What I've said for some years. I didn't know there was a famous quote on it).
Gore Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012, rest in peace.
"We only have one political party in the U.S., and that is the property party, which essentially is corporate America, which has two right wings, one called Republican and one called Democrat. I can't say I like either of them." --Gore Vidal
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