Hilaire Belloc on the difference between the barbarian and the civilized man:

'The Barbarian hopes that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilization has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort, but he will not be at pains to replace

This is Ray Bradbury

He wrote 'Fahrenheit 451' (the best-ever novel about censorship and free speech)

He had a crazy theory about art:

It comes not from love but from hate

A thread on how rage makes you creative:

Only Ayn Rand was smart enough to predict that incompetence and an ENVY for excellence will lead to dystopian social outcomes. Orwell thought we'd need total mind control, Huxley thought we'd need a permanently drugged populace, but Rand knew: all you need is resentment

Reject stoicism. Reject Buddhism. Even the room lizard is 'tranquil.' Get ATTACHED. Everything great is downstream of (strong) desires. Latin root for desire is 'de sidere,' which translates to 'from the stars.' An intense desire is a gift from the Gods above. A gift of direction

One of the identifying features of Marxist Degrowth Death Cultists is that they don't want to leave the planet.

I don't mean personally, there's plenty of people who would like to stay on Earth. I mean they don't want anyone to leave the planet. They want us to hang around on

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