Behold Bentham’s Panopticon. Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher and social theorist in the mid-1700s, invented a social control mechanism that would become a comprehensive symbol for modern authority and discipline in the western world: a prison system called the Panopticon. The basic principle for the design, which Bentham first completed in 1785, was to monitor the...Read More
“Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?” ― Thomas Love Peacock View this email in your browser I’ve a brand new subscription channel. A new platform. A new paid subscription membership. It’s not on any social media...Read More
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton View this email in your browser “Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself...Read More
“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” ― Aldous...Read More
“You cant handle the truth!” — Col. Nathan R. Jessep Let me ask you one question Is your money that good Will it buy you forgiveness Do you think that it could I think you will find When your death takes its toll All the money you made Will never buy back your soul — Bob Dylan, “Masters...Read More
Build a better mousetrap. Our national motto has become “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” Dr. Thompson spake. Americans are seeing that everything our Conspiratorium has been talking and warning about for decades is now happening at warp speed. They want to know more about it. Why? Americans have been slapped in the...Read More
“Only the small secrets need to be protected. The big ones are kept secret by public incredulity.” —Marshall McLuhan They stole it fair and square. If Trump has no success in the courts, that is. You know and I know that the [DS] shadow government had every inch of media and vote-tallying and recording and counting...Read More
“In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.” — Mark Twain What now? It’s going to work like this. At some point some court, official, someone will sound the alarm and say that’s it. It’s over. It’s official....Read More
For lionelmedia.com subscribers, I posted a video and written disquisition on why law-abiding citizens must be allowed to possess and purchase passive defense vests and how confiscation of such is patently unconstitutional. See what they're doing? lionelmedia.com/2021/01/16/in…
“Never believe an editor or publisher who urges you to go against the grain. Eventually, the publisher will cave to the mob, the editor will get fired or reassigned, and you’ll be hung out to dry.” — George Orwell
American public opinion is like the starling flock murmuration. Moving in swaths and configurations en masse. No identifiable leader, no independence. Just the Rule of Seven. pic.twitter.com/OPv6T4Chtg
