"The smallest minority on earth is the individual."

@katielass I'm gonna start shopping. It's crazy how applicable things are that were written even in the 1880's. I've read Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, but really should go back in read more into Nietzsche. I read Orwell too, but again need to revisit. It's insane how bad ideas keep rearing their ugly heads. Knowledge is the cure.

@quietlitany so true. You have inspired me to finally read Atlas Shrugged.

@katielass Lead the way! I'll be picking it up very soon

@quietlitany The friend who gifted it to me said she grew up under communism and tells how it was and naturally appreciates what we have, or had, here. I don't understand why anyone would want something else. Nothing is perfect but we've got the best there is, ever has been or ever will be. I worry about future generations. I think the majority will be brainwashed and want to be led around by the nose and if it was just them I wouldn't care but there will be people, a minority, who will not want that but they will not have a choice.

@katielass Wow, yes people like your friend are usually proponents of liberty. My hope is the pendulum will swing back. Communism is kind of new on the time scale of human history. The asshole who came up with the killing fields in Cambodia had a PhD from a French college in the 60's. This stuff is recent so to speak. We have enough knowledge to know better. That's my hope.