“If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these Savages in order to make room for cultivators of the Earth, it seems not improbable that rum may be the appointed means.” Benjamin Franklin, from his autobiography, 1750s
Quote – Capricious equilibrium
“From a caprice of nature, not from the ignorance of man. Not a mistake has been made in the working. But we cannot prevent equilibrium from producing its effects. We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Reverie – The talking stick
Some of our favorite characters of the last few years have been a rolling ball that beeps, a talking Stick that says one short phrase, and a sarcastically awesome anti-authority robot that was reprogrammed from being a now former authoritarian enforcer. We have yellow evil pills that get into shenanigans and do not speak. We …
Quote – The strange race
A long time ago my father told me what his father told him, that there was once a Lakota holy man, called Drinks Water, who dreamed what was to be; and this was long before the coming of the Wasichus. He dreamed that the four-leggeds were going back into the earth and that a strange …
Quote – Destructive kitchen
Conseil: "If that is the case, this dugong may well be the last of its race, and perhaps it would be better to spare it, in the interest of science." Ned Land: "Perhaps it will be better to hunt it, in the interest of the kitchen.” ― Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea What a …
Quote – Life is a quest
"According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces.' Fearing their power, Zeus split them into two separate parts, condemning them to spend their lives in search of their other halves." - Plato
Literature Quote – Under the sea
I hope so. And I also hope that his powerful vessel has conquered the sea at its most terrible gulf, and that the Nautilus has survived where so many other vessels have been lost! If it be so- if Captain Nemo still inhabits the ocean, his adopted country, may hatred be appeased in that savage heart! May …
Quote – Total destruction and devastation
“The immediate objectives are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many prisoners of every age and sex as possible. It will be essential to ruin their crops in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Orders of George Washington to General John Sullivan, May 31, 1779
Reverie – Imaginary common bodies
Your imaginary document of "freedoms," is useless if there is no one left to read it. Equally, it is useless if no one can apply common sense in the margins of reality. Finally, it is useless if it was never followed to begin. Broken Treaties. Broken Promises. Falling bodies. Falling faith. Lives over paper. Lives …
Reverie – Teaching from the rear
Why strictly enforce special rules on teachers to make sure they teach from standards? The rich and distanced administrators with ersatz job titles and extra layers of hell, force the students to be a taught a specific way, all the while telling them they are special and unique.
