Excerpt from Isaiah Berlin letter to George Kennan (1951)
We distinguish to this extent between factual and value judgement--that we deny the right to tamper with human beings to an unlimited extent, whatever the truth about the laws of history; we might go further and deny the notion that "history" in some mysterious way "confers" upon us "rights" to do this or that; that some men or bodies of men can morally claim a right to our obedience because they, in some sense, carry out the behests of "history," are its chosen instrument, its medicine or scourge or in some important sense "Welthistorisch"--great, irresistible, riding the waves of the future, beyond our petty, subjective, not rationally bolsterable ideas of right and wrong. Many a German and I daresay many a Russian or Mongol or Chinese today feels that it is more adult to recognise the sheer immensity of the great events that shake the world, and play a part in history worthy of men by abandoning themselves to them, than by praising or damning and indulging in bourgeois moralisings: the notion that history must be applauded as such is the horrible German way out of the burden of moral choice.
If pushed to the extreme, this doctrine would, of course, do away with all education, since when we send children to school or influence them in other ways without obtaining their approval for what we are doing, are we not "tampering" with them, "moulding" them like pieces of clay with no purpose of their own? Our answer has to be that certainly all "moulding" is evil, and that if human beings at birth had the power of choice and the means of understanding the world, it would be criminal; since they have not, we temporarily enslave them, for fear that, otherwise, they will suffer worse misfortunes from nature and from men, and this "temporary enslavement" is a necessary evil until such time as they are able to choose for themselves--the "enslavement" having as its purpose not an inculcation of obedience but its contrary, the development of power of free judgement and choice; still, evil it remains, even if necessary.
Communists and Fascists maintain that this kind of "education" is needed not only for children but for entire nations for long periods, the slow withering away of the State corresponding to immaturity in the lives of individuals. The analogy is specious because peoples, nations are not individuals and still less children; moreover in promising maturity their practice belies their professions; that is to say, they are lying, and for the most part know that they are. From a necessary evil in the case of the education of helpless children, this kind of practice becomes an evil on a much larger scale, and quite gratuitous, based either on utilitarianism, which misrepresents our moral values, or again on metaphors which misdescribe both what we call good and bad, and the nature of the world, the facts themselves. For we, i.e. those who join with us, are more concerned with making people free than making them happy; we would rather that they chose badly than not at all; because we believe that unless they choose they cannot be either happy or unhappy in any sense in which these conditions are worth having; the very notion of "worth having" presupposes the choice of ends, a system of free preferences; and an undermining of them is what strikes us with such cold terror, worse than the most unjust sufferings, which nevertheless leave the possibility of knowing them for what they are--of free judgement, which makes it possible to condemn them--still open.
What have you done to me?
You drain the life out of me 'til I don't know myself
When all your faith in reality fades away
Who will you follow?
Are we alone now?
I can't find the way out
I keep waking in the same fever dream
A cure for desire
We're playing with fire
We're drawn to light
We're broken and blinded by it
We're dying for release
If all this fear was born in my mind
I gave you everything you'll ever be
What have you done to me?
You drain the life out of me 'til I don't know myself
When all your faith in reality fades away
Who will you follow then?
I feel the changes, a crack in the matrix
Break through the lies like an axe through the screen
You can't stop desire (can't stop desire)
We are the fire (fire)
Wake up to the madness
The rats in the wall are already coming through
Lift this twisted veil from our eyes
Forever and ever
What have you done to me?
You drain the life out of me 'til I don't know myself
When all your faith in reality fades away
Who will you follow then?
Ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ah, ah-ah-ah (ah-ah, ah-ah-ah)
What have you done to me?
You drain the life out of me 'til I don't know myself
When all your faith in reality fades away
Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
(Ah-ah-ah-ah, ah-ah)
Who will you follow?
Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
30 comments:
FrameGame is angry that the right of wealthy rightturds to rape kids is being called out?
Rightturds = we must protect the rapers.
Can You even Imagine Kamala Harris, or even Joe Biden going to China and sitting with XI to negotiate?
Neither of those two Idiots couldn’t even get one sentance across without making a Fool out of themselves. And to just Think that those dummy leftist’s want to put either one of those Idiots in charge of running our country is a Nightmare!
They aren't just being called out. They're being given the tools to silence all YOUR complaints about it. And that should concern you. But since you're stupid, you're fine with that.
Voltaire - “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
We must protect even the raper's speech, and give it a fair trial in a court of law. Not JUST the prosecutions speech.
The myth of the so called "Democrats" or as I call them “The Loony Left”
Yes, the wonderful lesson of whenever these blowhards on the left repeat marxist cliches and utter BS about the Democrats, listen to the truth and counter it with facts.
Or whenever Dingbats such as the Lefty Dave “D” uses his EXTREMELY LIMITED Vocabulary and calls Our President “Hitler” and “Dictator”, or a “Criminal”, you know DAMB WELLthat he’s completly off the wall, or he didn’t take is Med that day, and that he’s Full om Crap from being Brainwashed! Woops, I almost forgot, How could he be “Brainwashed, if he Lacks a Brain.
You Dembots just can’t take responsibly for any of your failures, can you!
For example, It's the liberals who are calling Clarence Thomas the “N” word now. And yet it’s the same Liberals that call the Republicans “Racists”?
It ‘s the Democrats that did not help themselves by canonizing Saint George of Floyd, and by sympathizing with the "madness”, but that called it peaceful protests," that cost an estimated two billion dollars in damage.
It ‘s the Democrats who errected a Bronze Statue of the Druggy and who wanted to make a Holiday after his Death. In fact they named a street after him. .
I myself, Personally care about the store owners whose stores were looted and burned, and their employees who lost their jobs because of the George Floyd riots.
If George Floyd, listened to the police, he would be alive today. Also he robbed a pregnant woman at gun point holding the gun to her pregnant stomach. While his buddies robbed her. He should've been in jail, but instead he’s dead.
And it’s amazing how these Democraps are still defending the likes of George Floyed, Willie Horton, Angela Davis, Louis Farrakhan, and their Co-horts.
The minions of Marxist malignancy that comprise the ENEMEDIA and the FACT CHECKERS will claim that all the "EVIDENCE" is a mere contrivance of "Vicious Right Wing Fanatics.
Have you not noticed how all the well-known :Fact Checking organizations NEVER seem to go after the NYT, the WaPo, the BoGlob, the LAT, The New orker, The Nation, The Daily Kos, BuzzFeed, The Progressive, Mother Jones, The Common Dreams, the DOJ, People's World:, the UN, and every other piece of Democrat Piece of Excrement
As Pilate famously asked, "What Is Truth?"
It's hard to know when you have these so called news outlets spreading their BS, isn't it? Just DON’T rely on what you read on Dave Dubya’s Rag, or on other Progressive Blogs.
Let's get it heard around that Obama, Rice, Holder, Lerner, Debbie Wasserman blabbermouth, and every other piece of democrat piece of excrement are planning to testify against the Trump Administration so that they could Cheat and Win the Elections in November.
Because when I looked at the headlnes, then listened to CNN for a few minutes, and my head started to ache, and my senses to reel. I felt nauseated, unbalanced, hopelessly overwhelmed with the sheer VICIOUSNESS of the LIES and DISTORTIONS we are fed by these Loony tune Lefties constantly. I am close to despair, because i can't see how our country or for that matter ANY Western Nation who believes in the Good Health of the Republican Party will ever be able to extricate itself from grip of the Leftist Fiends who hold us in thrall to the Matrix Morons
You have to Win, in order to keep being elected and as president, Trump’s been chalking up his Wins at an impressive pace, Win. After Win, etc. and etc, And when it comes to righting the wrongs of the previous party , correcting errors, solving problems and making REAL progress there is NO WAY anyone could possibly even come close to the Job that President Trump has been doing.
And so far the Chinese Summit, with Chinese President XI has been a very BIG success. So far s good, but it's only talk,. Let's wait a year or so and see-if-any real action has taken place.
Nobody knew. None of us saw it coming. Even though I am one ot Trump’s biggest supporters, maybe a handful suspected it. Many of us expected the economic renewal of the US to happen. Many of us foresaw a significant roll back of Saint Barrack’s, followed by Joe Biden’s horrid,and destructive agenda. A lot of us hoped for a major push back from the left. All of which we have gotten. None of us, no one I have read, no one I know, expected Donald Trump to be a Giant in Foreign Policy. No one expected him to reshape the world. Yet Donald Trump, in a short time, is doing so. That was supposed to be one of the reasons to vote against him. He had no foreign policy experience.
As this has become the biggest economic revival following an economic downturn by the Biden administration , characterized by a sustained period of improving business activity, rising Gross Domestic Product, and making our Military become the best, and strongest in the entire world.
Dave Dubya Said another Stupid and UN-TRUE Satatment.
"JC is a liar. Obama never pardoned or pre-pardoned family members and loyal apparatchiks."
If anyone is a LIAR it's the Moron that wrote this Piece Of Crap!
Sen. John Fetterman said that his political views have remained largely unchanged over the years, arguing instead that the Democratic Party has moved in a more radical and "anti-American" directio
No, I am not "fine" with donald trump protecting pedophiles! Why the fVck would you think I was?? You're the one who is fine with it. You said so on this blog.
I have no idea what the Hell you are talking about. That isn't the issue. The issue is that nobody is going on trial. Because Turd-2 is protecting the rapers. Pam Bondi protected Jeff Epstein when she was the AG of Florida.
And I was talking about republicans protecting the rapers, not the rapers themselves. republicans have the "free speech" right to defend rapers, but they are supposed to be doing what the people who elected them want. Most people want anyone involved in the Epstein pedophile ring arrested and put on trial. donald trump and Congressional republicans are standing in the way of that happening.
donald trump and his sycophantic republican lickspittles not doing their jobs is the issue, NOT the free speech of pedophile rapers.
Also, I (or any Democrat) didn't give the rapers any tools to silence complaints. What an idiotic claim. Is that FrameGame's moronic argument? I didn't watch the video. FrameGame is a lying tinfoil hat wearing Turd. I don't take all your assignments re watching videos put out by liars.
John Fetterman's brain got scrambled by his stroke. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, because what happened to him isn't typical. But his political views have obviously changed. That claim is objectively false. He should resign to concentrate on his health and his family, instead of backstabbing Democrats and thwarting their efforts to hold Turd-2 accountable.
The Colonel: No one expected him to reshape the world. Yet Donald Trump, in a short time, is doing so.
Indeed he is. He is diminishing the economic power of the United States on the world stage bigly. You'll be happy when the dollar isn't the reserve currency of the world and the economic power of the United States is destroyed?
The Colonel: As this has become the biggest economic revival following an economic downturn by the Biden administration , characterized by a sustained period of improving business activity, rising Gross Domestic Product, and making our Military become the best, and strongest in the entire world.
Everything you wrote is objectively false. Except that GDP has gone up, but that is completely normal and not happening due to the policies of Turd-2. Unless in recession, the GDP does go up do to population growth. But the Turd-2 recession is coming. donald trump is working hard to push the US economy into recession. The "big beautiful bill" is taking away people's healthcare insurance and doing lots of other bad things. Also, donald is supporting AI and crypto bigly. It is going to be bad when the AI bubble bursts and cryptocurrency crashes.
"I didn't watch the video"...says it all.
I seem to have said that even before his election, Epimetheus.
How come you were never against brain addled Democrats like Joe Biden and John Fetterman before now, Derv? Rhetorical question. The answer is obvious.
Minus: "I didn't watch the video"...says it all.
Right. It says I don't want to watch every single video you post. What do you think it says? That I'm fearful of watching and being convinced by FrameGame's tinfoil hat nuttery? You put "children" in quotes. That says it all. YES, there were children that were raped. But you clearly don't care. Why you suggest the victims aren't even children. I bet that, in your sick perverted delusions, there were no victims at all, but only consenting adults, right?
It is very obvious. The reason is that Joe Biden was never brain addled. Only John Fetterman is. And you don't think it's great that he stands with donald trump now? You were full of sh!t when you said what you did. Because nobody knew at the time what the results of his stroke would be. You NEVER speculated that he would side with donald trump against his own party, so that's a lie.
And when the tools you advocate for are used to censor your own paedophile complaints, don't come whining to me back here...
Biden had 4 years to go after rapers. Why didn't he? LOL!
Too busy naked showering with the grandkids, I suppose...
You knew Fetterman was brain addled from a stroke even before his PA Senate primary vote.
...and for months after the primary the results were obvious. He was displayed like Joe Biden. He couldn't even talk. Oh wait, that must have been a "stutter".... @@
It helps to read the teleprompter though...
Minus: Biden had 4 years to go after rapers. Why didn't he? LOL!
Via g00gle ai: The Biden administration did not unilaterally release the sealed Jeffrey Epstein documents because of longstanding legal restrictions and ongoing judicial proceedings. The case remained an active criminal investigation throughout Biden's presidency, as the Department of Justice pursued potential co-conspirators. Additionally, these materials were protected by court-ordered seals and privacy rights. The primary factors that kept these files under seal during Biden's term include: Ongoing Litigation and Appeals: The Epstein case and related legal proceedings against his associates, including Ghislaine Maxwell, were active and under appeal. Law enforcement generally does not release unredacted case files or evidence while an appeal is in progress. Independent Department of Justice Norms: Administration officials, including former Vice President Kamala Harris, cited the need to maintain an absolute separation between White House interests and the independent decisions of the DOJ. The administration avoided interfering in Justice Department prosecutorial decisions. Victim Privacy and Redaction Laws: Federal law and privacy restrictions prevented the government from releasing unvetted digital evidence, grand jury testimony, or materials depicting illegal acts involving minors.Judicial Jurisdiction: Many of the files were held by the Epstein estate, state courts in Florida, or were locked behind federal court-ordered seals that the executive branch could not unilaterally overturn.While some lawmakers, such as Representatives Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie, pushed for more transparency from the DOJ, the aforementioned legal constraints were consistently cited by the Biden administration.🛑
Turd-2 could be pursuing justice for the Epstein victims now, but aren't. Congress delivered the legislation to release ALL the files, but a large portion of the files are being censored and held back. In order to protect the perps, including donald trump himself. He's guilty, yet you fling baseless allegations at Joe Biden and tell lies about him showering with grandchildren. You "suppose" that because you're a lying Turd covering for the real pedophile, donald trump. Among others. As confirmed by MTG, going after the perps would harm donald trump's "friends".
Minus: You knew Fetterman was brain addled from a stroke even before his PA Senate primary vote.
So what? Being "brain addled" can mean a variety of things. In his case it was typical stroke related things. I didn't know a personality change would be one of the effects, and neither did you. According to Mystere, John Fetterman "came to his senses" by becoming a traitor and switching his allegiance to donald trump, betraying everything he previously supported. But the answer surely was not to elect the quack Dr. Oz instead.
I don't advocate for any tools used to "censor your own paedophile complaints". You're referring to FrameGame induced delusions.
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