What is Covetousness if not one desiring something other than what he/she would be, do and/or have per his/ her own ability and resource... quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

To be quite plain, covetousness, presumption, arrogance cannot bear the thought... quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

Once free speech is qualified, conditioned or defined, it no longer exist... quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

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Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone... Law of Consensual Unity, Law of Ethical Continuity, Shaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness

Note:
As taken from the forthcoming book Propositions, Problems & Poems on the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, Singular Human Right to Consent & Other Neglected Matters, to be published mid 2022.

No. 225 - Law of Consensual Unity / Part 1

No. 226 - Law of Consensual Unity / Part 2

No. 227 - Law of Ethical Continuity / Part 1

No. 228 - Law of Ethical Continuity / Part 2

No. 229 - Laws, Gates, Tables and Expressions / Part 1

No. 230 - Laws, Gates, Tables and Expressions / Part 2

No. 231 - Schaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness / Part 1

No. 232 - Schaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness / Part 2

No. 233 - Schaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness / Part 3

No. 234 - Schaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness / Part 4

No. 235 - Schaefferian Law of Anterior Covetousness / Part 5

No. 245 - Inveterate Covetousness Theorem / Part 1

No. 246 - Inveterate Covetousness Theorem / Part 2

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Quote by James Fenimore Cooper

"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

Democracy is a decision-making method, one among numerous others, no more virtuous than Parliamentary, Oligarchy, Monarchy, Autocracy and more, each without exception forming an unethical Kratocracy (might makes right). As unrestrained Democracy inevitably if not immediately trends toward Mediocrity as James Fenimore Cooper rightly critiqued, it does so in parallel towards Tyranny.

Fascism will eventually knock on the door of each home...

Fascism will eventually knock on the door of each home, to be tolerated or endured by most Americans like most Germans of the 1920s/30s, mistakenly perceiving, fearfully assessing the Ism as some path to normalcy and safety...

"Imagine if the zealous enforcers of mask mandates had the power to deny you access to public places because you have not “gotten your shot.” Even worse, what if a potential employer had to ensure you were “properly” vaccinated before hiring you? This could come to pass if proponents of mandatory E-Verify have their way.

E-Verify requires employers to submit personal identifying information — such as a social security numbers and biometric data — to a government database to ensure job applicants have federal permission to hold jobs.

Currently, E-Verify is only used to assure a job applicant is a citizen or legal resident. However, its use could be expanded to advancing other purposes, such as ensuring a potential new hire has taken all the recommended vaccines."

Dr. Ron Paul

See link for entire article...
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2021/march/22/want-a-job-get-a-shot/

Inconvenient truth! Good article by Michael von Liechtenstein...

Inconvenient truth! Good article!

"However, even without the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, simple mathematics shows that financing those systems will eventually become impossible. Even pre-Covid, public debt had already reached unsustainable levels, despite what Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) thinkers believe. MMT promises unlimited funding of public expenses, but money has to be earned, not only printed."

Michael von Liechtenstein

It does not take a math genius to understand the unsustainable dynamic. In United States (my country), it has long been foolishly promulgated that longer lifespans meant longer retirement spans. Again, one less-than-genius know it is untenable to work for 20 to 30 years then retire for 20 to 30 years, yet that the American dream remains as such.

The harsh reality is simply this. If most or many are living until 80 even 90 plus years, then the same will have to somehow work into their 60s and 70s.

There is also the undiscussed side effect of longer retirement years for those of minimum means; depression per daily routines of TV viewing (or staring), home isolation by choice or health problems, and general nonactivity. The overhead to reactivate people is astronomical and frankly impossible to any beneficial degree, when simply working provides the best if not the only medicine psychologically as well economically. 

With all that said, decades of government interventions interfering into these private matters therefore misdirecting private decisions, efforts and resources, have been the source of the very problems outlined in the article.

See link for entire article...
https://www.gisreportsonline.com/sleepwalking-into-a-healthcare-and-retirement-crisis,3463,c.html

Quote by William Stanley Jevons

"Truth indeed is sacred; but, as Pilate said, 'What is truth?' Show us the undoubted infallible criterion of absolute truth, and we will hold it as a sacred inviolable thing. But in the absence of that infallible criterion, we have all an equal right to grope about in our search of it, and no body and no school nor clique must be allowed to set up a standard of orthodoxy which shall bar the freedom of scientific inquiry."

William Stanley Jevons (economist/logician, 1835-1882)

Power corrupts both the ruler and the ruled...

The duration of the citizenry's tolerance and acceptance of such maniacal pandemic measures are disturbing. I have come to understand Lord Acton's axiom as a double-edged sword, corrupting both the ruler and the ruled. Whether marginally, proportionately, incrementally towards absolutely, government corrupts inevitably most everyone, those who are seductively allured then conditioned by the power thus culled by it, as well those who are perceptively secured then coddled by the power thus lulled by it.

"If there is any presumption it is the other way against holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for the want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it."

Lord Acton (1834-1902)

To consistently understand liberty thus morality, one should comparably, rightly understand perversion...

To consistently understand liberty thus morality, one should comparably, rightly understand perversion by the most contemptible, abominable, barbarous, nefarious as well depraved, reprobated of definitions. So it follows. Perversion; to consent or dissent on all matters per one’s preference, yet remain discontented, disconcerted even disturbed until others act, speak even think compatibly, similarly even acceptably whether by force legal or force illegal.

D.C. Quillan Stone

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Understanding that perfect knowledge is not achievable should never be used as an excuse for not engaging in the search for it...

"To be completely adequate, our knowledge ought to admit of analysis after analysis ad infinitum, so that adequate knowledge would be impossible. But we may consider any knowledge adequate which carries the analysis sufficiently far for the purpose in view."

W. Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)

Further affirmation of a mantra of mine "Study, Ponder, Labor, till Last Breath." concluding every installment in my latest book. For as Mr. Jevons suggested (above) long ago, knowledge may be searched, gathered, studied, tested, determined, noted, reaching some adequacy for application, but never "settled" as politicized science promulgates even imposes today.

Relatedly, as I posted a week ago...

"Understanding that perfect knowledge is not achievable should never be used as an excuse for not engaging in the search for it."

Dr. Ron Paul

Similarly, one of two longstanding mantras of mine Biblically inspired (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23), "Study, Ponder, Labor, till Last Breath." Perhaps, Dr. Paul and I have been pouring from the same damn bottle of whiskey. :-)

But the thing that I saw in your face, no power can disinherit...

Your name and your deeds were forgotten
Before your bones were dry
And the lie that slew you is buried
Under a deeper lie

But the thing that I saw in your face
No power can disinherit
No bomb that ever burst
Shatters the crystal spirit

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Note:
Verse written in 1939, published later in his 1943 book Looking Back on the Spanish War. The poem although the last 4 lines particularly, I have long woolgathered even pondered as encouraging, inspiring words.

The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere... Quote by W. Stanley Jevons...

"The laws of thought are natural laws with which we have no power to interfere, and which are of course not to be in any way confused with the artificial laws of a country, which are invented by men and can be altered by them."

W. Stanley Jevons (1835-1882)

As quoted in his book Thinking as a Science, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) recommends Mr. Jevons' book Elementary Lessons In Logic: Deductive & Inductive. Thus immediately upon reading the quote a few months ago, I purchased the latter and now well into the book. Inspiring!

As much as we have no power to interfere with laws of thought as the quote above suggests, or perhaps no right to interfere per common human propensity to dissent against the interference (as I prefer to suggest), government insists and persists to expend resources, exert effort as well exercise compulsion so to persuade individual thought therefore manipulate collective behavior. Thusly provided in part by centrally designed pedagogy, funded in part by centrally planned economy, the persuasion and manipulation are for the sole purpose to preempt the otherwise rightfully self-interested dissent in favor of facilitating craftily imbued consent.

Quote from Ron Paul's book The End of Unearned Opulence...

"Understanding that perfect knowledge is not achievable should never be used as an excuse for not engaging in the search for it."

Dr. Ron Paul

Similarly, one of two longstanding mantras of mine Biblically inspired (2 Tm 2:15 / Cl 3:23), "Study, Ponder, Labor, till Last Breath." Perhaps, Dr. Paul and I have been pouring from the same damn bottle of whiskey. :-)

His book is a short but noteworthy as well quite timely read. I recommend it.

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Quote by Ludwig von Mises

"Majorities are no less exposed to error and frustration than kings and dictators. That a fact is deemed true by the majority does not prove its truth. That a policy is deemed expedient by the majority does not prove its expediency. The individuals who form the majority are not gods, and their joint conclusionsare not necessarily godlike."

Ludwig von Mises (economist, 1881-1973)

Note:
Populism in 21st century America thus popular "truths" have produced the 3 worst presidential administrations and resulting atrocities. The 4th presidential administration will merely reaffirm... Quote taken from his 1944 book Omnipotent Government. See link for free e-book provided by the Mises Institute.

https://mises.org/library/omnipotent-government-rise-total-state-and-total-war