Thinking Outside The Agora
be there or be in the square
Sunday, 6 October 2013
Free Market
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty,
which are embodied in one maxim:
The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
— Bertrand Russell
Saturday, 5 October 2013
Political Respectability
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable,
and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
— George Orwell
Thursday, 3 October 2013
The Internut
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Psychology
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
I'll Buy That
War against a foreign country only happens
when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
— George Orwell
Monday, 30 September 2013
Politer
When childhood dies,
its corpses are called adults
and they enter society,
one of the politer names of hell.
— Brian Aldiss
Sunday, 29 September 2013
The Two Types Of Person
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Under New Managerialese
Friday, 27 September 2013
BWV 988
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Adolthood
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
— George Orwell
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Vacuum Tube
Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Made In His Image
God has no religion.
― Mahatma Gandhi
Monday, 23 September 2013
Marginal Utility
The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little —
or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature
than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
— Anthony Trollope
Sunday, 22 September 2013
The Function Of Teachers
Those who know how to think need no teachers.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Laughter Is The Best Religion
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Friday, 20 September 2013
Revolving
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution;
one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
— George Orwell
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Grave New World
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
— Aldous Huxley
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
Proselytising Zeal
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytising zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas.
— Aldous Huxley
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Socialisation
Monday, 16 September 2013
Convergent Devolution
Sunday, 15 September 2013
Evidence Vs Ideology
Saturday, 14 September 2013
Idiots
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics
is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
— Plato
Friday, 13 September 2013
Demanding With Menaces
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
— HL Mencken
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Wurst Case Scenario
Wednesday, 11 September 2013
The Last Laugh
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Definitional Anagram
Monday, 9 September 2013
Overkill
Sunday, 8 September 2013
Empiricism
Saturday, 7 September 2013
Macromanaging The Micromanager
Friday, 6 September 2013
Charismatic Ignorance
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Aspidermanism
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