Monthly Archives: September 2010

Warning to Fellow Travelers

  At this point the critical reader will certainly offer an objection. "You have been inviting me," he will say, "to do nothing more or less than trust my senses: and this too on the authority of those impracticable dreamers the poets. Now it is notorious that our senses deceive us. Every one knows that; [...]
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General Security: The Liquidation of Opium

  It is my undisguised intention to exhaust the subject once and for all, so they will leave us the hell alone with the so-called dangers of the drug. My point of view is clearly anti-social. There is only one reason to attack opium. This is the danger that its use can inflict on society [...]
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Witchfinder General

Britain of the mid-17th century was a very dangerous place indeed. The land was wracked by bloody civil war: a titanic struggle between the nobility and the professional classes, Catholics and Protestants, King Charles I squaring off against Oliver Cromwell and the forces of Parliament. Between the years of 1642 and 1651 the opposing factions [...]
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APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF RUSSIA

On April 12, we will once again celebrate the anniversary of Soviet space exploration, as well as the sixth birthday of the avant-garde of the Communist Party of St. Petersburg and Leningrad. The bourgeois government of Russia has long had full and comprehensive evidence of the existence of intelligent life in the universe, but sordidly [...]
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Black Sheep of Oneida

For all their grand, benevolent statement and intentions utopian societies are rarely looked upon with favor by the wider populace. The Oneida Community of the mid and latter 19th century New York State was hardly an exception. The Community was founded on John H. Noyes’ theology of Perfectionism, a form of Christianity with two basic [...]
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