“America's economy is a war economy. Deep inside we love war. We want war. We thrive on war. War is in our genes, deep in our DNA. War excites our economic brain. War drives our entrepreneurial spirit. War thrills the American soul. We have a love affair with war.” ~ author unknown

*Arrogance and inertia have taken over the U.S. Empire. Empires never believe they are declining while it’s actively happening. The Corporate States of AmeriKKKa is the modern-day Roman Empire, Trump is Caligula, and Congress is the Roman Senate version of feckless elites.*

“The human species is behaving frighteningly like a sort of disease of the biosphere — a wild, malignant growth — and if we manage to destroy the system, we shall also very likely destroy ourselves.” ~ Marston Bates (‘Biology for the Future Citizen and the Future Biologist’ 1962)

#DolorEtMorsInevitables #PainAndDeathAreUnavoidable

#WeAreTheBest #AtBeingTheWorst #GoUSA

*Which of Dante’s nine circles of hell is this?*

#TheMegatechnicBribe #LewisMumford

#TheOuroboros #BirthDecayDeathRebirth #CycleOfFutility

“Sleep and everything which induces sleep […] is in itself pleasurable. […] There is no greater pleasure (nor greater happiness) in life, than not to feel life.” ~ Giacomo Leopardi (‘Zibaldone’ written between 1817 and 1832)

#Big$$$ForTheMerchantsOfDeath #ProfitingOffHumanMisery

#ClimateUpdate #NotLookingGreat

“Life has been thrown into the world, light into darkness, the soul into the body. It expresses the original violence done to me in making me be where I am and what I am, the passivity of my choice-less emergence into an existing world which I did not make and whose law is not mine.”

"The problem of meaning: We work in order to live. And we live in order to work. But the question of meaning of the quote 'work-life totality:' Of...why am I working? I who am living. Why am I living? If it is in order just to work." ~ Jean-Paul Sartre ('Being and Nothingness' 1943)

"...the universe itself—and the Mind behind it—is insane." -- Philip K. Dick ('VALIS' 1981)

"This world is the world of error, and it is the place of confusion. It is not the place of truth, but a shadow of the truth." -- attributed to Valentinus (2nd century Gnostic theologian) ('Gospel Of Truth' est. 140-180)

“Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting...By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.” -- Marilynne Robinson ('Housekeeping' 1980)

"It is impossible to contemplate without terror the extent of the evil which [we are] capable of causing and undergoing. [...] It is right to ponder on this evil with horror and without any consolation at all." -- Simone Weil ('The Notebooks of Simone Weil' 1956)

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"The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. [We are] subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear, subject to the rule of what the Buddhists call 𝒹𝓊𝓀𝒽𝒶, the endless unsatisfied anguish of a being who passionately desires only illusory goods."

Birth, 𝘯. The first and direst of all disasters. -- Ambrose Bierce ('The Devil's Dictionary' 1911)

"'Tis not that dying hurts us so - / 'Tis living - hurts us more -" -- Emily Dickinson (‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so' 19th century, exact date unknown)

"[T]o give birth to those / Who can but suffer many years, and die - / [I Think] is merely propagating Death and multiplying murder." -- Lord Byron ('Cain: A Mystery' 1821)

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." -- Oscar Wilde ('The Soul Of Man Under Socialism' 1891)

"The good things of this life are less good, than the evil things are an evil." -- Pierre Bayle ('Historical and Critical Dictionary' 1697)

"Everything exists to cease to exist." -- Phillip Mainländer ('Die Philosophie Der Erlösung' 1875)

“The young can no longer save the world, the world can no longer be saved. The idea of salvation is nothing but a false idea, and we shall pay for our countless errors. It is too late to redeem anything. The time of redemptions is expired and the time of reformations is over.”