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“Equal justice under the law is not merely a caption on the facade of the Supreme Court building, it is perhaps the most inspiring ideal of our society.” - Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1969-1986
Individuality is the opposite of equality. This nation was not founded on the idea of equality, but it’s opposite, individuality. To be an individual, separate and different. To be different is to be unequal because equal means same. It’s a relatively simple thing to understand…
The freedom of the printing press is the inheritance of every individual. “Journalistic integrity,” was a later invention that only came about after Hearst and Pulitzer dominated the newspaper industry. Before then, local communities had local papers that were written by local community members.
Pulitzer and Hearst also created “yellow journalism”, so their feigned concern for “journalistic integrity” was just that. People were uncomfortable with their amassed influence, as Hearst and Pulitzer bought up the local newspapers and made them into vehicles for their agenda…
I’m writing about this here, in Liberty Liberally, because child sex trafficking is modern-day slavery. Slaves have historically been treated as sex objects by those who traffic and control them. Considering that child sex trafficking is a real issue, not just a political football, it seems that we should take the time to educate ourselves about grooming, and to look at the available information about grooming apart from biased or skewed usage of the term.
Jeffrey Epstein was a real individual who really was convicted of sex crimes against underage kids. He really was connected to other powerful people…
There is a permanence to paper. Not compared to the stone carvings that preceded scrolls, but human history has unrolled on paper.
The internet, on the other hand, is a flickering flame. Quickly extinguished with the flick of wrist, the entire system of communication - or just your own ability to communicate - can be turned off. With some unknown, faraway hand on the mouse, they can simply delete your self-expression, if it goes against ‘community standards’, whatever that might mean at the moment…
It’s new, really. The idea that we have about how music works, in a financial, professional sense.
Technological developments, like electricity, and broadcast - and now the internet - have made music easily available to people.
The click of a button, or opening an app on your phone, will lend instant access to the world of music, spanning across time and space. It is truly magnificent. But we’ve also lost something, and that something is quite the important something, too…
“Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.” - George Washington Carver
Just because you are ignorant doesn’t mean that you’re stupid. People feel stupid when they realize that they are ignorant about something, but ignorance is just a lack of knowledge. Stupidity would be to not care that they are ignorant.
“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.” - Alfred North Whitehead…