how comprehensive do we need to be

....once we render unto God what is God's
there's never much left for Ceasar






                             Hilary of Poitiers
















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as fate would have it

Today Americans are overcome
      not by the sense of endless possibility
              but by the banality of the social order
                    they have erected against it —









                                                                                     Christopher Lasch
















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please pass the Haldol

The purpose and design of Studies in Prejudice

 dictated the conclusion

that prejudice,

a psychological disorder rooted in ‘authoritarian’ personality structure,

could be eradicated only by subjecting the American people

to what amounted to collective psychotherapy—

by treating them as inmates of an.......

...........................................insane asylum.






                                               Christopher Lasch


































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faith and fecundity

But if the faith communicated by the Church to Christian humanity is a living faith,
 and if the grace of the sacraments is an effectual grace,
the resultant union of the divine and the human
cannot be limited to the special domain of religion,
but must extend to all Man's common relationships
and must regenerate and transform his social and political life










                                                                               Vladimir Soloviev




























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a painter's perception

George Catlin’s Creed                                                              

• I love a people that have always made me welcome to the very best that they had.
• I love a people who are honest without laws, who have no jails and no poorhouses.
• I love a people who keep the commandments without ever having read or heard them preached from the pulpit.
• I love a people who never swear or take the name of God in vain.
• I love a people “who love their neighbors as they love themselves”
• I love a people who worship God without a Bible, for I believe that God loves them also.
• I love a people whose religion is all the same, and who are free from religious animosities.
• I love a people who have never raised a hand against me, or stolen my property, when there was no law to punish either.
• I love and don’t fear mankind where God has made and left them, for they are his children.
• I love a people who have never fought a battle with the white man, except on their own ground.
• I love a people who live and keep what is their own without lock and keys.
• I love a people who do the best they can.
• And oh how I love a people who don’t live for the love of money.

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memories of torture

Sometimes I walk,
     and I walk,
           and I forget,
 I forget everything,
          I forget prison,
           The Darkness,
            everything.
But it is always there.
The Darkness comes.




                         Suleiman Abdullah Salim


















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to put it most succinctly

Liberal capitalism is not at all
     the Good of humanity.
 Quite the contrary;
    it is the vehicle of savage,
          destructive nihilism.



                                                   Alan Badiou







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feminist demonstration poster

we'Re  taKing


     SLUT


      back










               ....have at it girls






















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sometimes it's the effort that counts

FIVE RULES FOR MEN TO FOLLOW FOR A HAPPY LIFE






gravestone marking in Logan, Utah










1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home,
       who cooks from time to time,
               cleans up and has a job.


2. It's important to have a woman who can make you laugh.


3. It's important to have a woman who you can trust
            and who doesn't lie to you.


4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed
                      and who likes to be with you.


5. It's very, very important
       that these four women don't know each other
          or you could end up dead like me




                                            Russell J. Larsen




                              ...a cowboy's post-mortem advice
























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shared solitary confinement

when the countryside is far away
the city becomes a prison




                     




                       Christopher Alexander
                         A Pattern Language












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