In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
- Mortimer J. Adler
The fool wonders, the wise man asks - Benjamin Disraeli
The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises
these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives
to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.
As much as I value Rand and her insights, I part company when she rejects God as the source and progenitor of our moral codes
and laws. I don't find any fundamental conflict between the individual and the teachings in the gospel. Those aspects that
may be explained as socialistic influences should be viewed as the responsibilities of the individual to God himself and His
plan for our proper conduct to our neighbors. Rand was not touched by Faith. A true shame. For how much more valid would
her message have been if she was touched by the Spirit . . . .
SARTRE
The West is dying. Collapsing birth rates in Europe and the U.S., coupled with population explosions in Asia, Africa and
Latin America, are set to cause cataclysmic shifts in world power, as unchecked immigration swamps and polarizes every Western
society and nation.
"The Death of the West," former presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan outlines his belief that Western culture is
dying out with the European population. Drawing on U.N. population projections, recent U.S. census figures and expert policy
studies, Buchanan takes a cold, hard look at the decay of Europe and America and the decline of Western culture.
Wendy McElroy:Ifeminists.com fills a void for information on individualist feminism. It offers a database of over two thousand URLs that lead to news items,
commentary, organizations, etc. It provides a nexus where a community can grow on the Bulletin Board and the email lists,
as well as a place for people to "drop by" every morning for the daily news on the front page. Moreover, the "information"
section gives the fundamentals of ifeminism. It fills a need.
We are, as George the Younger tells us, "at war," and having
unpopular opinions during times of war is likely to get one shouted down, or worse.
Fortunately, the War on Terror isn't a real war; it is
a "new kind of war," otherwise its critics might find themselves in jail, as did critics of Lincoln's and Wilson's wars, never
mind that pesky First Amendment.
Yet the chilling effect is real, so real that when Gore
Vidal, America's greatest living man of letters, weighed in on the War on Terror, not even his friends at The Nation would
publish him.
A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus
T. Cicero
Government by Deception
by Jan Lamprecht
Prince Charles once said that political correctness is "intellectual communism." He is right.
Indeed, I believe that political correctness is the creation of the communist psychological warriors as they try to play mind-games
with Westerners. Political correctness is a way of slowly driving people towards communism. Part of the game is aimed at discrediting
the true anti-communist elements in society so that nobody listens to them...
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and
consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books
are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and
attention.
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and adjacent townships in Western New York.
