sayings

The Aim of Practical Politics Is to Keep The Populace Alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety)...

“Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. Wars are no longer waged by the will of superior men, capable of judging dispassionately and intelligently the causes behind them and the effects flowing out of them. The are now begun by first throwing a mob into a panic; they are ended only when it has spent its ferine fury.” H.L.

Have We Already Slid Into A Tyranny of Good Intentions?

This is an older editorial from 2010- The title is the question: Are we sliding into a tyranny of good intentions?While reading this piece, I realized we're already in that tyranny. We slid right into it with nary a bump impeding our ride. The saying “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” comes to mind. Our society, today, is that hell. It's absurd to the nth degree. The enforced political correctness, for some, so obvious in it's hypocrisy.