Aphorisms

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“And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”  Friedrich Nietzsche

Flight or defense is instinctual in human preservation.  But preservation instincts only carry us so far, terminating at a point over an abyss.  Here, we are faced with two choices.  Exhausted, fearing our instincts futile, we may leap into the abyss, relinquishing to tyranny that has driven us hence, forsaking all now and all who come after.  Or in anger, we may find clarity and turn from fear and futility, to rage — rage against the tyranny that would sunder from us our most fundamental humanity, our desire for liberty.   

In our growing rage, we are sustained, elevated, and balanced.  Rage will be our salvation and guide.  Rage will preserve us when institutions and their tyrants ignore, threaten, and betray us.  We designate our rage for and dedicate it to the tyrant, to save the humanity he would strip from us and our children.  Controlled, carefully-harnessed, with pinpoint accuracy, to him we direct our rage.  Let it bear the tyrant to the precipice, torture him incessantly along the way, and then cast him into the abyss.

Last modified on 2010-03-30 22:26:43 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Tyranny knows only brutality.  Its imposition of power, whether through subtle coercion or threat of violence, brutally subjugates a people.  Thereby, to resist tyranny, people can only impose a harsher brutality due to their lesser position.  As the tyrant takes away what the individual cherishes most, we will dissent and defy.  But when there is nothing left to take but our lives, then we must take from the tyrant what he might individually cherish.

Last modified on 2010-02-23 04:29:06 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

Preserving individual liberty is the cause of government, an unfortunately necessary evil; it should as well be the effect, but we witness continually the opposite.   Thus, when government is no longer effectual for this preservation, it becomes merely evil, unnecessary, and should be replaced.

Last modified on 2009-08-11 22:59:59 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

The individual flees to her liberty, and the free market flees to the individual.  After the individual flees the state, what next?  After the union, what next?  What then will there be left to govern?