Louis C.K. on Tom Sawyer and his “dirty little homeless white trash creep” friend, Huck Finn.
If you aren’t watching Louie, you’re a little empty inside and just don’t know it yet.
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The second line nailed it. Best TV series in a long time.
"Not out of fear but out of a feeling of what is right should we abstain from doing wrong… Virtue is based, most of all, upon respecting the other man… Every man is a little world of his own… We ought to do our utmost to help those who have suffered injustice… To be good means to do no wrong; and also, not to want to do wrong… The poverty of a democracy is better than the prosperity which allegedly goes with aristocracy or monarchy just as liberty is better than slavery… The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world."
— Democritus, quoted from Karl Popper’s “The Open Society and Its Enemies, Vol. 1: The Spell of Plato
"What they do not comprehend is man’s helplessness. I am weak, small, of no consequence to the universe. It does not notice me; I live on unseen. But why is that bad?"
— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Their [the Nazi’s] view; it is cosmic. Not of a man here, a child there, but air abstraction: race, land. Volk. Land. Blut. Ehre. Not of honorable men but of Ehre itself, honor; the abstract is real, the actual is invisible to them. Die Güte, but not good, this good man. It is their sense of space and time. They see through the here, the now, into the vast black deep beyond, the unchanging. And that is fatal to life. Because eventually there will be no life; there was once only the dust particles in space, the hot hydrogen gases, nothing more, and it will come again. This is an interval, ein Augenblick. The cosmic process is hurrying on, crushing life back into the granite and methane; the wheel turns for all life. It is all temporary. And they - these madmen - respond to the granite, the dust, the longing of the inanimate; they want to aid Natur."
— Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
"Nationalist ideology divides society vertically; the socialist ideology divides society horizontally."
— Ludwig von Mises
"All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions and modes of conduct, involves, as of the same unspeakable importance, diversity of education. A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body. An education established and controlled by the State, should only exist, if it exist at all, as one among many competing experiments, carried on for the purpose of example and stimulus, to keep the others up to a certain standard of excellence."
— J.S. Mill - On Liberty
"It is only because the institutions of this country are a mass of inconsistencies, that things find admittance into our practice which belong to the system of despotic, or what is called paternal, government, while the general freedom of our institutions precludes the exercise of the amount of control necessary to render the restraint of any real efficacy as a moral education."
— J.S. Mill - On Liberty
"The maxims are, first, that the individual is not accountable to society for his actions, in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself. Advice, instruction, persuasion, and avoidance by other people if thought necessary by them for their own good, are the only measures by which society can justifiably express its dislike or disapprobation of his conduct. Secondly, that for such actions as are prejudicial to the interests of others, the individual is accountable and may be subjected either to social or to legal punishments, if society is of opinion that the one or the other is requisite for its protection."
— J.S. Mill - On Liberty
"and whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."
— J.S. Mill - On Liberty
Plato’s cave allegory, spoken by Orson Welles. You probably have already seen it, if not… give it a shot.
