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Old 10-15-18, 05:47 AM   #573
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The competition of pied pipers - ban not just one of them, ban them ALL. Ban all parties and professional politicians who made it their way of earning an income "to do politics" all life long. What would change if the AfD goes away? Nothing. Not just the AfD - ALL of them have to go. It were the others who made the AfD possible, who fostered it, who called it into life.

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world." - Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self Reliance".



This essay by Emerson, which is probably his most famous one, is some of the most valuable and precious pieces of text I have ever read, a real wake-up call . And very modern, it is a crushing verdict for our modern present and the servile attitude it commands people to praise as social ideal.
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