- Paul Craig Roberts

"Independent thought is not a concept with which very many Americans are familiar or comfortable. Most want to have their emotions stroked, to be told what they want to hear. They already know what they think. A writer’s job is to validate it, and if the writer doesn’t, he is, depending on the ideology of the reader, a misogynist, a pinko-liberal commie, or an operative for the fascist establishment. All will agree that he is a no good SOB . . . respect for truth has fallen and taken everything down with it."

Like this quote:

If you are distressed by any external thing, it is not this thing which disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.
- MARCUS AURELIUS

Funny but telling . . .

“Do you know why the Amish sell raw dairy? Because they hate our freedom.”

- Myles Kantor