Category: Thought

One of the chief charms of Political Economy is the open secret, that it deals not with rigidities and inflexible qualities and mathematical quantities and the unchanging laws of matter, but with the billowy play of desires and estimates and purposes and satisfactions, all of which are mental states, and all of which are subject in the general to ascertainable laws, though laws of a quite different kind from those of Mechanics. Values come and they go. Within certain limits and under certain conditions they may be anticipated and even predicted, but never with the precision of an eclipse or the result of a known chemical combination.

As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

By far the most important of all the conditions, under which the production of material commodities goes broadly forward, is liberty of action on the part of the individual; because, wherever such liberty is conceded, association and invention and all other needful conditions follow right along by laws of natural sequence.

Arthur Latham Perry, Principles of Political Economy, 1891.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length, 
Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place 
A limit to the giant’s unchained strength, 
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

William Cullen Bryant, The Ages, XXXIII.

[K]eep the beach heads that we have and spread out. Don’t give up the connections. We must retain the network of thought deviationism. . . .

Michael Rectenwald, author of Beyond Woke and the novel Thought Criminal, on Facebook, January 10, 4:26 AM. See also “Our Info War.”