George Bernard Shaw

on Reactionaries

 Possibilities are numerous, once we decide to act and not react.

Learning I am more ignorant than I realized

 We cannot prove anything, except to each our own satisfaction. The wisdom of the ancients recognized this when they wrote that God did not want proof. Why? Because proof gives the false impression there is an alternative to faith. 

Speaking literally now, we all are thinking in faith with not all the complete facts yet available since when we learn something new it includes more we did not know that we did not know. What is gospel to one man is hearsay to another and inadmissible in regard to proof. 

Playbook for Presidents

 Never react to anything, especially the opposition. The weakest position is that of a reactionary. Let him tell his own story and others will tell theirs. 

Anyone who wants to be president usually is only comfortable in the center of attention. Make sure others react to you, but never the other way around. 

Anyone who insists he does not agree with you, is ignorant of your views. Bring his views up to date by attributing brilliance to his, in truth, agreement with yours. Always be pleasant. 

Selling the truth

When deciding the truth of anything, including the truth anywhere you read it, I find it is helpful to remember to deduce the motive as well. In the "political news" this is so obvious that it is more easily seen than anywhere else, and is sometimes not only humiliating, but starkly embarrassing as well, because partisans typically, I find, wear no clothes. 

Everyone Speaks for their own benefit

The Reactionary is Doomed

The reactionary is doomed! Doomed to repeat the ideas of their opponents. Play up and propagandize the views of anything that is wrong! Has anyone ever heard of any great deal of effort or of time, by those in political reactors explaining or advocating free market capitalism? Therefore, the political reactionary's views are starved from neglect and the endless ravages of opponents will turn them into ghosts in a wax museum. 

Something for reactionaries