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A Freethinkers’ Harvest/Récolte des Libres Penseurs/Raccolta dei Liberi Pensatori

by Pier Marton | Apr 14, 2011 | Books, Care, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, KeyText, Politics, Quotes, Teach, Time, Wars, Women

Panarchy.Org
with an excerpt of G. B. Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists:

THE GOLDEN RULE

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
…The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

IDOLATRY

The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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RELIGION

Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus