Forwarded from Dylan
You know how when parents catch their children smoking a cigarette so they make the kid smoke a whole pack? Cops should make this guy smoke all 11 ounces.
My instinct is to trust this. But just to be careful, anybody with expertise here able to confirm?
Forwarded from THE Philosopher
Certainly, by any ballot-box, Jesus Christ goes just as far as Judas Iscariot; and with reason, according to the New Gospels, Talmuds and Dismal Sciences of these days. Judas looks him in the face; asks proudly, "Am not I as good as thou? Better, perhaps!" slapping his breeches-pocket, in which is audible the cheerful jingle of thirty pieces of silver.—Carlyle, Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question
Carlyle certainly has a way with words. He simultaneously attacks, first, democracy, for valuing the opinion of Judas to the exact same degree as that of Christ, and, second, economics and modern man's commercial worldview, for insisting that Judas might in fact be better than Christ, because, after all, Judas possesses those 30 pieces of silver earned through his betrayal, while Christ only hath the nails in his wrists and feet. (...And with a title like that...)
He had witnessed the ongoing birth of the age of Mammonism; he tried to warn us, but we marched onward, progressing readily towards a bright new glorious epoch of man's creation.
By modern liberal metrics, Judas is equal to or even perhaps better than Christ.... We truly live in an absurd time, my friends.