| MORE QUOTATIONS FROM MYSELF by NICK GUR 172. While denying to others the right to use certain definitions as axioms, Plato nevertheless freely allows this luxury to himself, being completely oblivious, evidently, of the contradiction between what he does and what he preaches. And again, while denying to others the right to express themselves as poets or dramatists, he proceeds to write dramatic dialogues and poetic myths. Thus, by doing that, he consistently displays the same double standards as all of us. 173. Everyone survives according to his natural state and abilities: optimist - by being optimistic, pessimist - by being pessimistic, each using optimism or pessimism, respectively, as a tool to cope with life; the later no less than the former, for pessimism is usually employed by those who are too sensitive or too vulnerable to go on absorbing the life's blows. They choose the surrender instead of the fight in order to protect their fragile egos from the devastation of the inevitable, in their view, defeat. 174. Anything Man does above and beyond the mere necessity to sustain his biological existence is unnatural and, therefore, is harmful to Nature. 175. First, they just ask to be accepted like everybody else. Then, when they are accepted as everybody else, they want everybody else to be like them. 176. Can one imagine Ecclesiastes (assuming there was such a person) going on a promotional tour to sell his Book the main message of which is "All is vanity". 177. Few words have such a magic power as the word "Love' has. It is especially potent when spoken to a woman who would endure the seemingly endless amount of abuse and deception as long as her man utters this magic word once in a while, at which moments the fact that what this man has been doing to her has very little to do with love apparently becomes completely irrelevant. 178. The improvement of economic conditions of the poor in the modern capital-democratic state can only, unfortunately, be gained at the expense of those who are just marginally better off. The so-called "redistribution of wealth" takes place primarily between these two social groups. The rich do not play this "silly game". They consider their wealth to be almost sacred and untouchable and use, very skilfully, the power it gives to get "exempted" from the wealth sharing. The examples of this phenomenon are numerous and well known, though not always recognised as such. The whole taxation system of the modern capital-democratic state is designed to take money from the working poor to support the ones who are not working (which brings relative social stability and helps to maintain the level of consumption necessary for the modern economy of mass production) and at the same time to exclude the rich from the participation in this process (though they are the main beneficiaries of it). When accused of the refusal to share their wealth, the rich usually defend themselves by saying that there are not enough of them to help the poor anyway so they shouldn't do it at all. Strangely enough, this perverted logic has been widely accepted ( even if not so overwhelmingly approved). 180. Yet another definition of the word "work" - something you would rather not to do if you had any choice. 181. I am independently wealthy. I am independent therefore I am wealthy. 182. It is not only the generals who are always fighting the last war. We all do. 183. My entire life is a text. And whatever I do or say at any particular moment of it is always, in a certain sense, taken out of context. For before I do or say something I think, before I think I feel, before I feel I experience and not just now but during my entire life. Yet, you can only see what I do or hear what I say now and miss all the rest. So, the more your experience, your feelings, your thoughts are similar to mine the more you are able to understand what I am saying or doing. |
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