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'Food for Thought' on All
Things That Matter
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provide profound comments on various subjects and other things that matter.
As such, they're 'food for thought'. We give you another opportunity to
thoughfully reflect on these valuable and insightful quotes, from famous and not so famous sovereign individuals.
These were posted on our site in descending order, from the most recent on the top. This is also a good resource page for some of the finest financial and privacy books and newsletters.
GOLDEN ERA OF
FREEDOM
It used to be the boast of free men that, so long as they kept
within the bounds of the known law, there was no need to ask anybody's permission or to obey anybody's orders. It
is doubtful whether any of us can make this claim today.
- - - - Friedrich Hayek reflecting back to the
golden era of freedom in the 19th century
(quote courtesy of Free-Man's Perspective newsletter)
VIOLATION OF BASIC SOCIAL
CONTRACT
What's happening in our country today has gone so much further
than even I thought it would. I mean the idea that the government has the right to tell private businesses when to
open and when to close,
that it could tell individual citizens when we can travel or when we can worship; these are shocking violations of
the basic social contract that we as Americans have always had with our government.
The idea that I am somehow responsible for my neighbor's health
is a reversal of the American way of life.
- - - Porter Stansberry (The Stansberry
Digest)
SCIENCE vs
TECHNOLOGY
(Science has become secular religion.) That’s because
what we call science is mostly speculation, as depicted by Thomas Kuhn, The Nature of Scientific
Revolutions.
It is secular religion, with a succession of faith-based
systems following one another, from multiple parallel universes to gender studies, often without traction or truth.
But engineering and technology are real and cumulative.
George Gilder, "Gilder's Daily
Prohecy"
INTERESTING
COMPARISON
'...Many users of social media are undoubtedly addicted to it –
observe the compulsive way in which people use their phones in public.
...(T)here are only two industries that describe their customers as “users,” the tech industry and the drug
industry.
---"The Social Dillema", the documentary
by Netflix
'Social media’s creators admit (social
media) dehumanizes people, disrupts social fabric and destroys democracy'
LIVING COURAGEOUSLY
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary
project, all your thoughts break your bonds; your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every
direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become
alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to
be.
--- Patanjali (2nd century BC) -
Indian sage
DIVERSITY 2020
...(B)e mindful of why you're holding gold, silver, stocks,
cash, bitcoin, or whatever else... you stand a good chance of making money over the next few years, even if
everyone else around you is losing it.
---The Stansberry Digest - August 22, 2020
DESTRUCTIVE HUMILITY and THE LACK OF
PRIDE
There runs a strange law through the length of human history –
that men are continually tending to undervalue their environment, to undervalue their happiness, to undervalue
themselves.
The great sin of mankind… is the tendency, not towards
pride, but towards this weird and horrible humility. This is the great fall, the fall by which every man…
in the fullest and most literal sense, forgets himself.
---G.K. Chesterton’s book, The
Defendant (Courtesy of Paul Rosenberg - freemansperspective.com)
NEOLIBERALISM and GLOBALISM
...Each nation state needs to rethink and recategorize its
priorities...
The health, safety and prosperity of the citizenry should be
placed above identity politics, the toxicity of an entitled cancel culture and mob rule by social
media.
...Covid-19 has illustrated how (global) interdependence can
cost lives...
---Michael Feierstein
(Investor, banker, and author of "Planet Ponzi")
TIME THEORY OF MONEY
Posing the only real threat to (today's) happy scene are the
politicians. In their grim global rebellion against the truth of time. They don scarecrow costumes of false
disasters such as climate change, trade gap trumpery, debt doom or middle-class woe.
They scowl and leer and demand more power. They rant and vamp
like vandalistic clowns of an apocalypse that will never come unless they summon it with their own lunatic fits and
furies.
---George Gilder, Gilder's Daily
Prophecy
WHEN LIFE BEGINS
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to
begin — real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some
unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me
that these obstacles were my life.
— Alfred D. Souza
WEALTH TODAY
...[T]he mob has a point. Much of the wealth (today) enjoyed by the rich has come
to them unfairly. It’s not the fruit of honest economic expansion; instead, the feds rigged the system.
Bill Bonner, Bill Bonner's Diary
FAKE NEWS
In his 1972 book, Steps to an
Ecology of Mind, anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined the phrase “a
difference that makes a difference”…
Real news is reporting on a difference that makes a difference. Everything
else is fake news, designed to consume your attention and rob you of your
thought.
Dan Denning, Bill Bonner's Diary
BIG GOVERNMENT
"In a small government, citizens can run the show. They know what is going on,
and have a say in what happens next.
In a global Deep State Empire, on the other hand, citizens play largely
symbolic roles. They vote, but their votes don’t really matter.
They voice their opinions, but no one really cares what they
think."
- Bill
Bonner, Bill Bonner's
Diary
TECHNOLOGY AND WISDOM
"Technology is advancing at warp
speed while moral wisdom is sinking into a
swamp. That unfortunate combination makes me wonder if the
coming singularity might end up being an extinction-level
event."
- John Hunt,
MD - in an interview at Casey Daily
Dispatch
EDUCATION
"Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive
isolation from reality."
Thomas Sowell -
Currently Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution, at Stanford University, Thomas Sowell
is an American libertarian economist and political commentator.
USE OF COERCION

Frederick August von Hayek |
"If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize
that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of
coercion."
Friedrich August von
Hayek -
F.A. Hayek was born on 8. May 1889 and died in 1992. One of the greatest economists
of the 20th century and most important libertarians. Nobel Prize winner in 1974.
MONEY AND WEALTH RELATIONSHIPS
Gold is the currency of kings,
silver is the money of gentlemen,
barter is the money of peasants,
but debt is the money of slaves.
Norm Franz - Money and Wealth in the New Millennium
MONEY
"Money is not an invention of the State. It is not the product of a
legislative act. Even the sanction of political authority is not necessary for its existence. Certain commodities
came to be money quite naturally, as the result of economic relationships that were independent of the power of the
State."
Carl Menger - the founder of the Austrian school of economics
FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we
despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky - an American social critic, cognitive scientist and philosopher
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