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LOVE SURVIVES

September 9, 2026 LRS

“The ancient Sanskrit legends speaks of a destined love, a karmic connection between souls that are fated to meet and collide and enrapture one another. The legends say that the loved one is instantly recognized because she’s loved in every gesture, every expression of thought, every movement, every sound, and every mood that prays in her eyes. The legends say that we know her by her wings–the wings that only we can see–and because wanting her kills every other desire of love.

The same legends also carry warnings that such fated love may, sometimes, be the possession and the obsession of one, and only one, of two souls twinned by destiny. But wisdom in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in us precisely because it isn‘t wise.”

~ from the book Shantaram by Gregory Roberts ~

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FASCISTS DON’T DISCRIMINATE

September 8, 2026 LRS

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Definition of the word: dis·crim·i·nate

/disˈkriməˌnāt/

Verb

Recognize a distinction; differentiate.
Perceive or constitute the difference in or between.

Definition of the word: fascism

1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control <early instances of army fascism and brutality — J. W. Aldridge>

Origin of fascism

Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces

First Known Use: 1921

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STATE OF FEAR

September 7, 2026 LRS

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“And of course we know that social control is best managed through fear.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“I have more respect for people who change their views after acquiring new information than for those who cling to views they held thirty years ago. The world changes. Ideologues and zealots don’t.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“For the last fifteen years we have been under the control of an entirely new complex, far more powerful and far more pervasive. I call it the politico-legal-media complex. The PLM. ”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear

“I have great respect for the corrosive influence of bias, systematic distortions of thought, the power of rationalization, the guises of self-interest, and the inevitability of unintended consequences.”
― Michael Crichton, State of Fear