“[…] although the antigovernment “patriot,” or militia, movement did wane in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it has come roaring back, from 149 groups in 2008 to 824 in 2010, even as the number of hate groups reached more than 1,000 for the first time since the Southern Poverty Law Center began counting them in the 1980s.”
“The Descent of the Modernists”
By E. J. Pace, 1922
“An Intellectual Contrasted with a Prize-Fighter”
By Thomas Nast, ca. 1875
All thinking men are atheists.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
“Rightwing (sic) extremist groups and their more violent affiliates were dismissed as disorganised, fragmented and irrelevant movement.” The Norway attacks, […], might ‘prove to be a watershed moment in terms of how we approach far-right followers, groups and their ideology.'”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Ph.D., Philosopher
How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do so. The rest live their lives away in this dream not very differently from the animals, from which they are in the end distinguished only by their ability to provide for a few years ahead. If they should ever feel any metaphysical need, it is taken care of from above and in advance by the various religions; and these, whatever they may be like, suffice.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Ph.D., Philosopher
Knowledge is power. The devil it is! One man can have a great deal of knowledge without its giving him the least power, while another possesses supreme authority but next to no knowledge.
Arthur Schopenhauer, Ph.D., Philosopher
[M]ost people […] resolve to get by with the least possible expenditure of thought, because to them thinking is hard and burdensome.
Always Question Authority 