On 06/18/2015 10:49 PM, Lodewijk andré de la porte wrote: > > supposedly when the west militarily controls a nation we give them > democratic choice. When Putin's personal army controls a nation and a > choice is made to join it to Russia, well, we call that a forced choice. > > It's hard to say which one actually happens. Somehow it wouldn't > surprise me if "the west" was far more ethical than others. That > either proves good propaganda, or it's just true. >
> > "He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, > characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this > time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the > complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had > long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which > only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. > > He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that > ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, > unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the > National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the > burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent > with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm > in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. > > He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling > twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was > somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to > keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment > sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his > innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he > was much like the rulers of Russia and China." ..... > > "He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, > characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this > time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the > complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had > long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which > only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. > > He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that > ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, > unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the > National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the > burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent > with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm > in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. > > He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling > twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was > somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to > keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment > sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his > innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he > was much like the rulers of the United States and China." .... > > "He was harassed, but still he spoke with authority. He was, in fact, > characteristic of the best type of dominant male in the world at this > time. He was fifty-five years old, tough, shrewd, unburdened by the > complicated ethical ambiguities which puzzle intellectuals, and had > long ago decided that the world was a mean son-of-a-bitch in which > only the most cunning and ruthless can survive. > > He was also as kind as was possible for one holding that > ultra-Darwinian philosophy; and he genuinely loved children and dogs, > unless they were on the site of something that had to be bombed in the > National Interest. He still retained some sense of humor, despite the > burdens of his almost godly office, and, although he had been impotent > with his wife for nearly ten years now, he generally achieved orgasm > in the mouth of a skilled prostitute within 1.5 minutes. > > He took amphetamine pep pills to keep going on his grueling > twenty-hour day, with the result that his vision of the world was > somewhat skewed in a paranoid direction, and he took tranquilizers to > keep from worrying too much, with the result that his detachment > sometimes bordered on the schizophrenic; but most of the time his > innate shrewdness gave him a fingernail grip on reality. In short, he > was much like the rulers of Rusia and the United States." Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus Trilogy http://www.american-buddha.com/illuminatus!.toc.htm
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