Your battered minds need a respite, friends. The burden of your red knowledge weighs heavy, has driven some of us mad. Who knew the red pill could make one so blue?
“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions,
the more you become a lover of what is.”
So, as a token of my respect for this fine group of minds, I bring you some lemonade in the form of Baruch de Spinoza. [Whiskey added upon request.]
"Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare."
And he argued that we are all one, in putting forth his arguments for Substance Monism - "the view that the apparent plurality of substances is due to different states or appearances of a single substance". All matter, all mind, everything is made up one one or the other, perhaps.
Leaving it difficult to believe that the imbecilic populist minds who are trying to bring us Hillary Clinton could be of our own stuff, but here it is.
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail,
not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
Though it would certainly help if they had some wisdom or an attempt to gain it:
“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
Maybe it is simply that they haven't mastered their own emotions? Maybe feeling sorry for the state of terror and frustration they must constantly endure would be apropros.
“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”
It doesn't help that they lash out in such ugly and dishonest ways, but:
“What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter”
And this one is for you, fellow Voaters:
“Of all the things that are beyond my power, I value nothing more highly than to be allowed the honor
of entering into bonds of friendship with people who sincerely love truth.
For, of things beyond our power, I believe there is nothing in the world which we can love
with tranquility except such men.”
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Democracy as it exists in the west is a failure.