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The highest ideal that a person holds consciously or unconsciously, that's their God

It's a horrible thing to realize that you are a human and what being human means. Christ to Satan, that's the human being

If you start to understand who you are, then you understand the Nazis. I can understand sex criminals. I can understand Nazis. And the reason for that is because I can see that as an aspect of myself, truly

Morality comes when you are a monster and you can control it

People can improve themselves I think to a degree that we don't understand. Because a human being for better or worse is something potential as well as something actual

Don't be fixing up the economy eighteen-year-olds, you don't know anything about the economy. It's a massive complex machine beyond anyone's understanding and you mess with it at your peril

If you can't even clean up your own room who the hell are you to give advice to the world

If you want to change the world you start from yourself and work outward because you build your competence that way.
I don't know how you can go out and protest the structure of the entire economic system if you can't keep your room organized

The optimists that I hear say - well the pendulum swings and then it swings back - and I think yeah well, sometimes it takes a hundred years to swing back and it takes a hell of a lot of people out on the way and sometimes it never swings back at all.
Sometimes people go out to fight a dragon and it just eats them or it burns them, and that's the end of that

The fundamental rule when operating in chaos is tell the truth

The truth is something that burns. It burns off deadwood, and people don't like having their deadwood burnt off often because they're like 95% deadwood

When you start to realize how much of what you've constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that's a horrifying realization and it can easily be 95% of you. Things you say, things you act out ...

Ideal person is the person who tells the truth

In the face of a stressor you are better off psycho physiologically to act voluntarily

Words are a virus

You don't know what the hell is coming at you when you let something new inside the dominance hierarchy, whether it's an idea or a disease.
Words are a virus!

Anything that's outside of the hierarchy is a threat. Any stranger, any strange idea, any animal manifestation, any noise, any spirit,.. it's a threat to the integrity of the dominance hierarchy in many many ways

Anything that is not part of your dominance hierarchy is a snake

Ideas are always at war, always, and we are in a war between these ideas.

Sort yourself out, marshal your arguments and put yourself in order so that when someone pushes you a little further than you should go, you can say no!

Try to say the truth, no matter what, because the alternative is worse. And it is worse!

The ability to speak your truth is the bulwark against hell, and losing your job? That's nothing, compared to where things can go when they go badly

It isn't an alternative political structure that's the countervailing force. It's spoken truth that's the countervailing force

It's not an easy thing to live in a truthful manner but the alternative is hell

There is never a situation that's so bad that there isn't something you can do to make it worse