“Honesty is a very expensive gift,

Don't expect it from cheap people.”

― Warren Buffett

Nothing easier than to say,

Have no fear!

Nothing more difficult.

How does one kill fear, I wonder?

How do you shoot a spectre

through the heart,

slash off its spectral head,

take it by its spectral throat?

It is an enterprise you rush into

while you dream,

and are glad to make your escape

with wet hair and every limb shaking.

The bullet is not run,

the blade not forged,

the man not born;

even the winged words of truth

drop at your feet

like lumps of lead.

You require

for such a desperate encounter

an enchanted and poisoned shaft dipped

in a lie too subtle

to be found on earth.

An enterprise for a dream, my masters!

(Joseph Conrad - Lord Jim)

(art by Brendon Flynn)

“Only the small secrets

need to be protected.

The big ones are kept secret

by public incredulity.”

 - Marshall McLuhan

(art by Craig LaRotonda)

Simple things

become complicated

when you expect

too much.

(art by CT Nelson)

An armed conflict between nations

horrifies us.

But the economic war

is no better

than an armed conflict.

This is like a surgical operation.

An economic war is prolonged torture.

And its ravages are no less terrible

than those depicted

in the literature on war

properly so-called.

We think nothing

of the other

because

we are used to its deadly effects...

The movement against war is sound.

I pray for its success.

But I cannot help the gnawing fear

that the movement will fail

if it does not touch the root of all evil

— human greed.

(M. K. Gandhi, "Non-Violence—The Greatest Force,"1926)

(art by Pejac)

Did you see their faces beaten to obey

Did you see the colours sulphur yellow, concrete gray

Did you see the eyes listless and indifferent

Oppression no resistance bodies without a spine

Day by day your hands are used
To build a world called decadence
So shut your eyes close your ears
Close your mind and perish with the multitude