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2020-12-10 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by 746 2020-12-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 So I click on the link to arrive at the Sawgrass Park and what do I see? A quote running along the length of the banner, from a famous anti-Communist:
"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Is this author telling us to "shut up"?

If not, then why is he arguing against the need to speak and "write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth"?

If we stop speaking the truth, we will sooner or later begin mouthing lies.

At some point we will either come to believe in those lies, or else we will be forced to lead double lives, as people in the old Warsaw Pact countries did. One truth for the world inside the four walls of your tiny little state-issued apartment; another truth for everywhere and everyone else.

Only someone who never went through communism could possibly think that this 2nd outcome is going to lead to anything but depression, despair and eventual madness.

Posted by Gleregum Dribble1710 2020-12-10 01:05|| 2020-12-10 01:05|| Front Page Top

#2 some people are teetering on the brink of craziness Join the real world, pal. It has always been this way. And there have always been many who are just plain nuts. US society is being deformed to the point of no longer being conducive to its founding principles. For the rest of us, this too will pass, perhaps taking many of us with it.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2020-12-10 04:30|| 2020-12-10 04:30|| Front Page Top

#3 So basically this means:

'So your democracy is gone, so what! Deal with it. But don't go nuts.'

If there ever was a time or thing to go nuts over, it is now and this is it.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-10 05:46|| 2020-12-10 05:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Me, I've settled with functional insanity long ago.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-12-10 08:28|| 2020-12-10 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Male pattern paranoid schizophrenia and memory loss, but I eat my broccoli and drink lots of water.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-12-10 08:33|| 2020-12-10 08:33|| Front Page Top

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