To: faithhopecharity
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. ― Frank Zappa
24 posted on
04/18/2016 11:35:26 AM PDT by
Lazamataz
(When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.)
To: Lazamataz
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: You liberate a city by destroying it. Words are used to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.”
Gore Vidal, Imperial America, 2004
31 posted on
04/18/2016 12:17:47 PM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
To: Lazamataz
one more I like...
“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
describes the current election very accurately, imho
33 posted on
04/18/2016 12:22:39 PM PDT by
faithhopecharity
("Politicians are not born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 -- 43 BCE))
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