It turns out that unexplained positivity lasts longer than positivity we analyze until we fully understand it.
I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist. "
I love the example of Jefferson because he's willing to murder his government and then he becomes a president and then his face is in a mountain. Just because he exercised his power.
I actually think the common anarchist position is that people are fundamentally good, blah blah blah. I don't believe that.
When people access the use of force for the threat of violence they have, by definition, a new political power. An unwanted political power.
It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our government. It's like, come on, why is this scary? Jesus, every generation before you was willing to kick ass.
Power belongs to the intelligence of evil. It's totally unreflective, like Donald Trump. It belongs there.
Only an ethical movement can rescue us from barbarism, and the ethical comes into existence only in individuals.
Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.
The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless.
Don't mistake activity with achievement.