“Principles are tyrants. They are the worst tyrants of all because they dwell in your own mind. So don’t stick up for principles- fuck them. You then discover that the principles that you have been sticking up for were not ‘your’ principles, but those most convenient to other systems (of society)”… Sticking to principles is “politically most convenient… it helps the government if it can reply on its opponents to come out onto the streets and protest… once they are on the street they can be shot”…
...“Morality that depends upon individual judgment is a vigorous living thing; but when morality becomes equated with a rigid code of law and dogma then it is no longer part of us, we are ‘distinct’ from it and can grow free. The church did mankind the favor of thus enslaving morality long, long ago.”...
- Ramsey Dukes
Vanha Zen koan: "If you see the Buddha, Kill Him"
Tapa tapa
tai tapa vahvistuu
ja tappaa tappajan
