"If you get rid of the government, then the costs of violence are imposed directly upon the person who wants to use the violence." - "Intellectualism is a defence against inflicted falsehoods as a child." - "People get that morality has been used to control them as children, and as soon as they try to treat morality as morality and make it universal to their society as a whole, they're attacked as immoral, as uncaring, as brutish and wrong... It's crazy. People's brains are fried... they have been crippled, mentally." -- How many fingers, Winston?

"We demand global democracy. Global governance for the people and by the people. Today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity: the G7,000,000,000." -- What have you bought into; what will it cost to buy you out?

"Everybody gets this."

'It's the greatest, most intimidating and most condemnatory phrase they can ever utter against you. The context for this phrase is, "You won't do what I want. You won't do this for me. You're selfish. How awful you are!" But if selfishness is so bad, then why is it acceptable for the person accusing you of it to want you to do something? Nobody calls you selfish unless they want something from you, something they consider the better option. This elevates the other person’s evaluation, want or need above your own. It’s selfish of them to not want you to be selfish, according to their own definition and standards. The moment somebody says you're selfish, and therefore bad or wrong, is the moment the person making this accusation contradicts him- or herself. This should discredit the complaint upon arrival. -- The number one flaw among human beings is an unhealthy and improper desire to control others. The primary means of controlling others ... is through unearned guilt.'

'In order to seal you in slavery, your government must pretend that you were never free. It must shatter your true history into facile propaganda, into fairy tales that endlessly repeat the fantasy that your political leaders rescued you from the scary chaos of liberty. The murder of memory is the first crime of the State – and the source and sustenance of all its other crimes. Why do we believe this propaganda, these fairy tales? I submit that it is to avoid the knowledge of our own enslavement. Most people's beliefs are ex post facto justifications for the after-effects of brute power... We must abandon our illusions of Statist benevolence – not to save ourselves from the State, but from each other – from the festering resentments and predations that inevitably grow among citizens clawing and biting for crumbs from the political table.'

'The IMF's prescriptions are always the same – and never work. Taxes are raised, services are cut and national assets are sold off to favored (Anglo-American) bidders. If leaders don't go along, their countries are bullied. If countries remove themselves from the IMF's prophylactic measures, they may end up like Argentina once did, with its entire middle class metaphorically (if not actually) picking through dumpsters to find a meal. If only the Anglosphere elite would simply take a vacation, stop printing fiat money, stop passing nonsensical laws that put millions of innocent people in prison and ruin their families, and stop fomenting wars that murder and poison millions to keep in power! This would actually be a service to the world – were the elites to stop "helping" it. But that is not likely to happen anytime soon. Instead we will likely be subjected to more media spin and more articles like the one in the New York Times bemoaning the fate of Irreplaceable Men.'

'"Marriages like that—built on empathy, a rock-solid belief system, and undying devotion—simply can't last. There's just nothing there." Cafferty added that he thinks the Stocktons are only staying together for their kids, who went away to college years ago, have recently gotten married, and now use their parents' relationship as a model for their own.'

'...the subjectivist’s worst fear is social disapproval. There’s a pattern to what you face when making any objective statements of truth around a subjectivist. The first is that your statement is reduced to mere opinion... They’ll accept it as cool, quirky, or “interesting” for a while. Then, should you stand on any universal principal, they’ll become angry. They can never admit to being angry though (anger was not allowed), instead they’ll project that anger onto you and say that you’re the one who’s angry. They’ll say that (or act as if) you’re being aggressive, that you’re trying to be a controlling dictator who won’t allow anyone to believe what they want. The subjectivist has concluded that certainty or absolutism itself is the problem, rather than irrationality. They are quite absolute and certain that nothing is or should be absolute or certain. Though when you point out this performative contradiction all you’ll get is a seat shifting blank stare...'

'The mistreated and neglected child is completely alone in the darkness of confusion and fear. Surrounded by arrogance and hatred, robbed of its rights and its speech, deceived in its love and its trust, disregarded, humiliated, mocked in its pain, such a child is blind, lost, and pitilessly exposed to the power of ignorant adults. It is without orientation and completely defenseless. Its whole being would like to shout out its anger, give voice to its feeling of outrage, call for help. But that is exactly what it may not do. All its normal reactions, the reactions with which nature has endowed it to help it survive, remain blocked. Thus, the healthy impulse to protest against inhumanity has to be suppressed. Some therapists fear this truth. By refusing to forgive, I give up my illusions. A mistreated child cannot live without them. But a grown-up therapist must be able to manage it. His or her patients should be able to ask: "Why should I forgive, when no one is asking me to?"'

'Much of what passes for valid knowledge becomes simply the individual’s unconscious acceptance of the dominant view. Knowledge generated and indoctrinated into each individual now becomes the moral compass that guides their actions. In the age prior to the time of ubiquitous internet communication, the gate was tightly governed. It was like the eye of a needle that very few could get through to participate in unfolding perception. What those in power absolutely fear is a collapse of the projections that guard the system of expert knowledge, which has replaced individual capacity to listen to ones own conscience. They are afraid of people marching side by side with those individuals who refuse to carry the given script and instead create their own and walk through the gate of the future on their own terms. What WikiLeaks has done is lifted up the perception of the masses that up to now has been governed by illegitimate authority of ‘expert’ knowledge.'

"When you criticize people who just assert stuff, you expose the rage that is their violated true-self. This was a child who was attacked for being rational, who has not processed the agony of that, and as an adult, works to undermine the certainty of others in contradictory ways. People just make up anything to explain away their negative feelings. When people respond with subjectivity towards objective arguments it is because objective arguments make them anxious. This is what human beings do; it is what we are trained to do and it is desperately unhealthy. It leaves us crippled in the face of power. If you can't get angry, if you can't be objective, if you can't judge, if you can't stand on principle – then you are sheep. You are perfect fodder for whatever people with power want to do to you. That's exactly what they want; for you not to have access to objective principles other than this pseudo-principle that rejects all principles: subjectivity."

'"My whole life I've made a concerted effort to give people a fair shake and understand different points of view because I felt that everyone had something valuable to offer, but it turns out most of what they had to offer was complete bullshit." "Seriously," Richman added, "what have I gained from treating everyone's opinion with respect? Nothing. Absolutely nothing."' By his estimates, Richman's receptiveness has resulted in 160 irreplaceable hours of listening to grossly uninformed political opinions, 300 hours of carefully hearing out both sides of pointless arguments, and at least a month of listening to his parents' bullshit about how important it is to be open-minded.'

"Once you've got enough cattle dependent on the farmer, you can't get rid of the farm. It is not the farmer who attacks me for talking about freedom, it's all my fellow livestock who attack me. Once you get enough people dependent on the government, anyone who starts talking about freedom gets set upon..."

"Women are raised as slaves. They have to oppose everyone's emotions: you can't feel too much of this, you can't feel too much of that. The constant desire of the slave is to oppose any strong emotions, to monitor the master's moods and to head off trouble before it comes, to manipulate and to reframe slavery as morality. And this slave morality is so common in women. The only morality is don't confront because a slave can't confront anyone. Slaves have to make forgiveness a virtue. Why? Because all a slave can do is forgive. A slave has to swallow all insults and if a slave is struck, they must slink away, beaten. And so what is a slave going to do? The slave is either going to fight or redefine all of the subjugation and insults and battering and humiliation and contempt they experience into virtue. If women are slaves, we're ALL slaves. The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. If women make slavery and the effects of slavery a virtue, then we shall never be free."

'Projective identification ... designates a psychological process in which a person engages in the ego defense mechanism projection in such a way that their behavior towards the object of projection invokes in that person precisely the thoughts, feelings or behaviors projected. Projective identification differs from simple projection in that projective identification is a self-fulfilling prophecy, whereby a person, believing something false about another, relates to that other person in such a way that the other person alters their behavior to make the belief true. The second person is influenced by the projection and begins to behave as though he or she is in fact actually characterized by the projected thoughts or beliefs. This is a process that generally happens outside the awareness of both parties involved, though this has been debated.' -- Predations upon those of a guilty conscience. Hence the grifters motto: You can't cheat an honest man.

'Anne Burdick, Systems Analyst: "If you don't want a bunch of strangers looking at you naked, then what the hell are you doing flying on an airplane?"'

"If you really love someone, you owe it them to correct their crazy... You owe them an intervention if you want to continue to claim you love them."

'Why are the neocons going insane with bloodlust? It's not about the past - it's about the future...' -- Bank of America balance sheet implosion scenario

"Uncorking the volcano."

'The genesis and evolution of humiliation.'

'The result of always being subject to infanticidal, incestuous abandoning maternal memories is that schizoid tribal personalities cannot tolerate separation or rejection in their daily life. "Rejection is unendurable … families cluster together in an encampment ‘often touching against their neighbors’ [because] separation and loneliness are unendurable to them. [They] cannot bear the sense of rejection that even mild disapproval makes them feel." What is misnamed "egalitarianism" is really mistrust and fear of being called "selfish" for owning. Hoarding and self-aggrandizement are simply not tolerated—people were often killed for trying to keep more than their share of goods—ambition was stopped by overwhelming schizoid envy, change was feared and the surpluses and savings which were necessary for future innovation were nowhere to be found. In tribal societies "the mother is an eternal threat to self-individuation, a frustrater of urges, and a swallower of emergent identity" of men.'

'No, Mom, listen. He's really bugging me. Don't you understand that I need to develop this antagonistic sibling dynamic in order to define my role as an individual within the family, specifically with regard to how my dominance over him in some way strengthens or validates my nascent sense of self? C'mon, please? I promise I won't in any way undermine the psychological damage you and Dad have already inflicted upon Jeremy by using him as a conduit for your respective fears, frustrations, and anxieties. And I swear I'll be careful not to menace him in such a manner that he reflexively fights back, becomes prone to violence and quick aggression, and eventually begins to exhibit traits of an anger disorder or sociopathy. I just want to engender in him a lifelong sense of insecurity and diminished confidence, honest! So will you tell Jeremy to let me create an atmosphere of sustained menace, please? You will? Thanks, Mom!'

'Shelham, who spends 10 hours every day consuming news updates on various entertainers and then commenting on their activities on an entertainment website, has reportedly shown no signs of humiliation or self-hatred over the way she spends the bulk of her time, and is also apparently not disgusted by the fact that this is actually what she does with her life. "Basically, I like to look at what's going on in pop culture and comment on it with a sort of fresh, wry voice," said Shelham, who by all accounts still possesses the ability to look at herself in the mirror every morning. "I try to find things that I think are really lame and vacuous and then just tear them apart."'

'...there is the question of what happens when you stop providing a reward, which is referred to as "extinction." As a general rule, extinction involves a lot of frustration and anger on the part of the subject. We expect the universe to make sense, to be consistent, and when the contingencies change we get testy. Interestingly, this is not unique to humans. In one experiment, two pigeons were placed in a cage. One of them was tethered to the back of the cage while the other was free to run about as it wished. Every 30 seconds, a hopper would provide a small amount of food. The free pigeon could reach the food but the tethered one could not, and the free pigeon happily ate all the food every time. After an hour or so of this, the hopper stops providing food. The free pigeon continues to check the hopper every 30 seconds for a while, but when it's clear that the food isn't coming, it will go to the back of the cage and beat up the other pigeon.'

“Everyone wants to leap over the personal. Philosophy starts with self-knowledge.”

Gisted/Quoted -- The degree to which you need to invent scare stories to keep yourself in an existing relationship, is exactly the degree to which you really hate that relationship. Everybody who is not enlightened will always try to put you in a master/slave relationship. Slaves attempt to master each other by mimicking the state in every interaction. That's how deep it goes. The state replicates all the way down the chain because it comes from all the way up the chain from the origins of the family. Everything slaves do is to try establish dominance – yours or theirs, depending on their trauma. But philosophy is not the language of dominance, it is the language of humility, the language of truth derived from nature which is non-dominant, non-personal and universal. That's why if you speak the truth people will get so frustrated, so angry, confused, frightened – and lash out at you – because philosophy is shattering their paradigm of hierarchy right there in the moment.

"Slaves attack each other for stepping out of line. The State is the willingness of your fellow slaves to attack you for pointing out the truth. If you want to be free, you simply have to stop associating with people who will attack you for pointing out the basic moral, economic and practical realities of our situation, of our lives. The State is your fellow slaves."

Gisted 2/2 -- It is the truth-telling slave who extends the universalization of ethics to the masters – and thus exposing them as morally evil – who is the greatest threat to every other slave because of their past horror and humiliation of having been enslaved to evil through their desire to be good, of having that which is the best of you turned into service of that which is the worst in humanity: lust for power, domination, theft, murder, war, debt. They react with the hair-trigger psychological defenses called slave-extending-morality-to-masters-will-get-us-all-killed! People can't easily process the universalization of morality, so all they can do is get mad at it. They have to create exceptions to universal morality because that's what we've all been programmed to do throughout the violence of history. So how do we change this? We have to reveal the negative consequences for immoral actions. We have to replace statism with voluntaryism. WE have to replace violence with ostracism.

Gisted 1/2 -- It is the rulers of mankind who most understand the moral nature of mankind. The ruling class is ALL of those who gain the majority of their income through violence. The ruling class is not about rich vs poor. A rich entrepreneur is in the slave class. A low-paid government worker is in the ruling class. The ruling class is about which side of the gun are you on. It's about violence vs voluntaryism. -- Morality is the most effective slave owning device that there is. You simply can't own people more effectively than inculcating morality within them. It is the slave's desire for virtue that enslaves them and makes them a slave to evil – and this is fundamentally humiliating. The masters will teach you that their 'morality' is universal and their 'ethics' are absolute, and then with zero comment or admission of any exception, they will act in the opposite manner. And if you bring this hypocrisy up, YOU will be attacked by your fellow slaves.

'Morpheus: The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.'