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👍 Quotes very applicable to the 21st century priests of politics.

Galileo had trouble with the cycloid, but for the times he was a great thinker.

There is a book written and translated by Stillman Drake, published 1957, called "The Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Drake goes into the conflict of Galileo and other scientists and with the primary source of 'reality', the Church. Here's some quotes, and I'll add more later:

"...I seem to discern the firm belief that in philosophizing one must support oneself upon the opinion of some celebrated author, as if our minds ought to remain completely sterile and barren unless wedded to the reasoning of some other person."

"But I must not neglect to show, for his benefit and in their defense, how implausible is his deduction that their science was poor from their having had few followers."

"The crowd of fools who know nothing, Sarsi, is infinite. Those who know very little of philosophy are numerous. Few indeed are they who really know some part of it, and only One knows all."

"Hence I consider it not very sound to judge a man's philosophical opinions by the number of his followers."

But today, it seems that consensus is taken as proof.

Nope not a lot to sift through. 8 yrs ago , even 4 years ago most people were blind to the uniparty corruption. I was told to put on my tinfoil hat over and over again back then on this board. Today many who denied the reality are saying exactly what they called me a kook for. The Great Awakening required that the people be shown not told. I tried to do the telling and mostly fell on deaf ears, but now the majority has seen it. You have to know the problem to fix it. People know now. When Trump is inaugurated no one will remember what I have said. This whole op has been the most unsatisfying “I told you so” in history.
Many choose the path of least resistance.
For many you cannot tell them the truth.
You must show them.
Only at the PRECIPICE will people find the will [strength] to change and break the system of control [be free].
Q

I'll look up the Sacred Cow.

Crichton, in his book, had footnotes for every statement he quoted from 'alter' scientists. But what really impressed me was his realization that in trying to keep something from happening that humans have thought was happening, men have made it worse.

Yes, I read State of Fear a long time ago.
You might enjoy James Hogan's Kicking the Sacred Cow, too.
Hogan and Crichton both died too young.
Both had views that were critical of 'acceptable' science 'facts'.
For Crichton it was global warming that was a fraud.
Hogan challenged a number of generally accepted theories in Kicking the Sacred Cow.

Thanks for both. I liked Crichton as well, did you ever read "State of Fear"?

In the same issue with the first installment of The High Crusade, there is a short story called: The Brotherhood of Keepers, by Dean McLaughlin. I liked that one too.

The Astounding/Analog site has downloads of many of the pulp issues with many first printings of the best sci-fi:
http://luminist.org/archives/SF/AST.htm
hundreds of issues to download

Thirty or forty years ago, the only homeless people in America were the winos.

But now, it's different. I have seen them, I have lived with them.

'We' must fight back!!

Hey, your links worked!!

Thanks, freedom. But when I try to access it, it says print disabled only. I'll try your links though. I have the paperback, but these old eyes...

I might do that. The heroine's name was Kira, which is my name in Russian. Coincidence? I think not. No, just kidding!

There is an old movie version of WE THE LIVING as well, look up and watch.

Internet Archive is still not working well; I bought the Amazon Kindle version.

The American founding was an English thing. As Brother Parvus remarked at the end of his chronicle:

“...I have remarked that Sir Roger de Tourneville established the feudal system on newly conquered worlds given into his care by the allies. Some latter day mockers of my noble master have implied he did this only because he knew nothing better to do. I refute this. As I said before the collapse of Wersgorixan was not unlike the collapse of Rome and similar problems found a similar answer. His advantage lay in having that answer ready to hand, the experience of many Terrestial centuries.

Europeans began to understand that conflict was not necessary to counter power; parchment barriers would do.

This novel by the way was nominated for a Hugo award in 1961, but was beaten by only one other: "A Canticle for Leibowitz".

thanks for that title. 👍
I enjoy Poul Anderson's writing and I'm downloading it now from its publication in Analog Magazine (in 3 parts July '60 through Sept '60).
Michael Crichton's Timeline might be of interest as its a tale of time travel to the same age (albeit with the restriction of trying not to change history.) I enjoyed that novel a lot, but the movie was a disappointment.

We, the garbage.

I have thought that the homeless people are mostly dropouts that either dont like the stresses of society.

https://archive.org/details/ayn-rand-...
This page has a downloadable pdf that is text keyword searchable.
https://archive.org/download/ayn-rand...

(Note, there are several other pages at http://archive.com that do not have the complete novel.)

Love the quote you posted.;^)

Just one comment and then I've got things to do!

There's so many good competitors for 'rattiest city', wonder how they voted Chicago the best!

In my day, freedom, ads pertaining to medical treatments and medicines were illegal. I think they should still be. For one, a member of 'the masses' sees a commercial for some drug that will do this or that and begs his doctor to prescribe it for him.

Pharmaceutical companies should sell to doctors, not patients.

The name of that novel by Anderson is "The High Crusade".

The 'angry young black man' defense is passe, in the twenty-first century. The angry white men defense may be coming into play---just kidding. But there should definitely be angry white men, and Hollywood and media should be penalized for their portrayal of a reality that doesn't exist.

The TV shows of my youth: the westerns where we knew who were the good guys---the white hats, and the bad guys, along with several farm-type sit-coms were taken off the air completely about 1972 or 1973, in what was knows as 'the rural purge'. Movies like "Deliverance" and "Midnight Cowboy", showing westerners and cowboys as mangy apes were produced instead. Good bluegrass bands like the Dillards were shown or talked about as backwards and dumb.

I think I will post a topic about an SF book written by Poul Anderson in 1960 that I find is needed to help white folks 'unburden' themselves of the unearned guilt imposed on them by the Left.

Rand said, in We the Living: "The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt".

Hollywood is about as far left and corrupted as one can go.
If you've watched any movies or tv in this century you'll have recognized that
white men are portrayed as evil, murderous, wife-beating, thieving, selfish,
shiftless, child-abusive, rapist, sociopathic, racist, misogynistic, hate-filled,
moronic criminals.
Review the villains in 21st century drama and 99.9% will be white men, even
though the evidence is that a much larger percentage of black men are actually
the perpetrators of such crimes and are more likely to have the traits mentioned.
When a black or brown man is portrayed as a criminal by the entertainment
moguls, invariably he isn't responsible for his actions because he was either
forced to do so by a white man or he had a difficult childhood in a bad
neighborhood where the police always accused blacks of crime without evidence.
Hollywood is at least as guilty of this rubbish as newspapers trying to earn favors
from D.C. corrupt politicians or advertising revenues from Big Pharma.

Perhaps Trump should punish them by banning all advertising by Big Pharma
which would have the effect of cutting tv ad revenues by about 40%.
There's a job for Kennedy.