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James Dale Davidson • The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State
Weaver is particularly harsh on what he regards as the tepid ambitions of the middle class: “Loving comfort, risking little, terrified by the thought of change, its aim is to establish a materialistic civilization which will banish threats to its complacency.”
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Alors en ce qui concerne les retraites, je suis de l’école du « manger, boire, s’amuser, car demain est un autre jour ». La croyance en la retraite est une sorte d’esclavage. Si vous n’y croyez pas, vous croirez en vous-même et en votre capacité à veiller sur vous-même. Ce qui rend libre. Je préférerais avoir l’argent maintenant et laisser le lende
... See moreTom Hodgkinson • L'art d'être libre: Dans un monde absurde (LIENS QUI LIBER) (French Edition)
Un fameux adage anglo-saxon dit : « Moins les gens savent comment on fabrique les saucisses et les lois, mieux ils dorment la nuit. »
Renaud Bombard • Notice rouge (French Edition)
The author of this report highlights that most of the obligations countries now have is to their pensioners and senior citizens. Naturally, governments could cut Social Security or Medicare and reduce the future liability. There is no way that would fly politically. The complication is that as countries grow older, most of the voters also happen to
... See moreJohn Mauldin • Endgame: The End of the Debt SuperCycle and How It Changes Everything
Mandeville shocked his audience with the starkness of the choice he placed before them. A nation could either be very high-minded, spiritually elevated, intellectually refined, and dirt poor, or a slave to luxury and idle consumption, and very rich. Mandeville’s dark thesis went on to convince almost all the great anglophone economists and politica
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
“I am the avenging sword of taste and decency,”
John Kennedy Toole • A Confederacy of Dunces
“Los discípulos de Rousseau, que hablan tanto acerca de la naturaleza y la feliz condición del hombre en el estado natural, no se percataron que los medios de subsistencia son escasos y de que el estado natural del hombre es la pobreza extrema y la inseguridad. —Mientras los industriales mejoraban los métodos de producción para proveer un mejoramie
... See more"I shall never come to the end of your interests, Fisher. I should say that what you don't know isn't worth knowing." "You are wrong," replied Fisher, with a very unusual abruptness, and even bitterness. "It's what I do know that isn't worth knowing.