Vaclav Havel’s Poster Test

From Bruce Charlton's Miscellany (link below): "The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: “Workers of the world, unite!” "Why does he do it? What is he trying to communicate to the world? Is he genuinely enthusiastic about the idea of unity among the workers of the world? Is his enthusiasm so great that he feels an irrepressible impulse to acquaint the public with his ideals? Has he really given more than a moment’s thought to...

Oswald Spengler’s Doctrine of History

"Thus is born Nihilism, the abysmal hatred of the proletarian of higher form of every sort, of culture as its essence, of society as its upholder and historical product. That anyone should have "form," master it, feel comfortable with it, whereas the common person feels fettered by it and unable to move freely under it; that tact, taste, a sense for tradition, should be things that belong to highly cultivated beings by inheritance; that there are circles in which a sense of duty and renunciati...

Thomas Jefferson on the Indelible Lines Between Human Forms

Thousands of breeding generations have shaped the forms of humanity in such a fashion that we must live segregated, for all our sakes. It is surely self-evident that if the trajectory which we are presently traversing is not perturbed then, as many have commented in some way or another, the future which waits for posterity is foreboding. Thomas Jefferson sums this up: "Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people [Negroes] are to be free. Nor is it less certain...