Your final month

If every year was a day then how would you spend your last month?

Externalities

A Captain who blames the storm cannot claim credit for the calm.

Preparation

A General who prepares for wars anticipated and unseen is worth more than a room full of Generals who boast of what they would have done.

Reaction to perception

A dog will hurry a familiar meal to rush back to an unfamiliar treat.

Truer words

The same words can be both truth and lie - look to the utterer.

Questioning

Accept those who question. Question those who accept.

Robust checklists

A robust checklist is one that can be ticked off with confidence (and actual effect) from the depths of inebriation.

Risk management

Risk management is installing a circuit breaker and still not sticking your knife into the toaster.

Wise mistakes

Wise people embrace mistakes and share what they have learnt.
Fools ignore mistakes and proclaim their infallibility.

The Environment's friend?

Perhaps the environment's best friend is large groups of people voluntarily coming together as one, rather than one small group forcing people together?

Government safety

I wish the government would stop trying to keep me safe ... it's making me afraid.

The size of character

Height has nothing to do with size. I know smaller men who I look up to and bigger men on whom I look down.

The modern Bible

Some may argue the Bible is "a living book that through God's hand reveals itself as a text which adapts in order to stay relevant throughout the ages".

I would say that "reworking" what is supposedly God's word as society's politics change, is suspiciously like the the hand of man giving the finger to God.

The future

The future marches on regardless and relentlessly.

Piss on the state

Pee on the tree and your lemons go free - the same goes for the state.

The plague of government corruption

Have you ever been in a mouse plague?

In the morning you sweep up all the crap and disinfect the floor.

The next morning it's back.

As long as there is a mouse plague you'll still wake up to the same crap.

To your goal

If you don't move towards your goal then where do you think you're going?

Elderly radicalism

The older I get the more radical I can be because the chances of me living to regret it diminish with every passing year.

Freedom of the populace

History has been exceedingly unkind to populations who cede their sovereignty on the say so of those they cede it to.

Creeping, crawling power

If I hadn't seen legislation corrupted and twisted from it's "fine intentions",

If I hadn't seen power hungry men make laws for their own power and control,

If I hadn't seen freedoms lost from unintended consequences,

Then, and only then, would I consider my fears and cautions to be hypothetical.

Perception and knowing

Just because we can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.

Just because we don't know it, doesn't mean it's non-existent.

Coerced directing

If someone is holding your testicles you tend to move wherever they lead you.

Individuality

One of the great joys of life is for every view of the world there is an alternative which is equally as valid for another person.

Government manipulation of metadata

Decide the narrative you want.
Steal the data you need.
Create a context for incrimination.
Prove your narrative with data taken out of context.

Government gangsters

The perspective of government gangsters is that they make understandable mistakes but you are deliberately trying to steal from them.

Open leadership

It's incredible what can be achieved when people are allowed to imagine and materialise their inner artist.

Great leaders allow. Poor leaders try to control.

A well behaved populace

In the meantime citizen - keep consuming, keep believing, keep behaving.

Perspectives

Life is too important not to make jokes about and I am too insignificant to take myself too seriously.

Powers perverted

The powers given to today's "good" government are the very same powers granted to the bad governments of tomorrow.

Pitfalls in power seeking

Unintended consequences nearly always humble the "cleverness" of power seeking humans.

Solutions

The world is never short of solutions to problems, we just have to find them and to find them we first have to be prepared to look.

Alternative views

One of life's great joys is for every view of the world there is an alternative which is equally valid for another person.

GMO - Government Modified Organisms

The government is like organisations that genetically modify seeds with secretive intent - constantly controlling your options until the only one available is planting their crop and paying them for the privilege.

Wine in jam jars

If skeptics are so certain about mind and matter then why don't they drink their wine out of jam jars.

Teaching and Learning

Part of learning is feeling stupid but making students feel that way is the sign of a bad teacher.

Political obfuscation

People who don't want to shine a light on shady politics deserve to be kept in the dark.

Potential

We are what we were but we can be what we will be.

God's hungry jackals.

When "anointed ones" speak for the God who knows everything, they are falsely claiming omniscience beyond the power hungry jackals with whom they run.

The ravenous State

The State's hunger for taking is seldom sated.

Coffee and Wine

Coffee and Wine may stain my teeth but if I stopped enjoying them I would have two less things to smile and laugh about.

Belief in gOD

I believe in gOD, just not the human definition.

The middle class

The middle class is simply another rung on the ladder that lets the poor get one step closer to those who "deserve" to be in charge of the world.

Revelation of reality

Pity the pour soul who dots the i and crosses the t on reality.

Being you

Who you are and who you want to be seldom fits with who you're told you should be and what you're told you should want.

Strength and arrogance of true believers

There's an arrogance to true believers who proffer their faith unsolicited however there is an admirable strength to those who express it only when asked.

Oppression

Cunning, stupid men with State granted badges of power ... that's what oppression is made of.

Great politicians

The power of a great politician is that they are believable.

Civilian worth

Nothing is so important that it can't be sacrificed for the greater political good.

Possibility

People who say "can't" can't say what can be.

Trusting government

Always suspect what government tells you to believe.

Life and death

Death hunts you. Life awaits you.

Christian leaders

Nobody hates a good Christian more than the leaders of a Christian church.

War and The State

During times of war The State reveals its true face and what a ghastly, perverted face it is.

Bliss

Follow your bliss and keep it paranoid.

Youth

Don't envy the young, they lack your certainty of attaining old age.

Plotting

Laugh loudly. Plot silently.

Chipping away at freedoms

Almost magically there is always another "good reason" to chip away at our freedoms. Each chip appears as nothing until we realise, too late, that our freedoms have been reshaped into shackles.

Conspiracy longevity

Conspiracies don't need to remain secret forever, just long enough to be effective.

Vastness and Certainty

In this vast, vast, vast universe there are humans who believe they possess such a certainty of knowledge that they can tell you how to live.

Plans of the powerful

The powerful have visions and strategies on timelines that are beyond the tolerance of of those who serve them.

Government licensing

When someone is holding your testicles, you tend to move in whatever direction they lead you.

Change

Be the small change you want to spend in this world.

Free market evolution

Free markets nurture evolution. Controlled markets impose dogma.

The War on Drugs

The rhetoric that "illegal" drugs are a scourge is just that, rhetoric. The reality is that the real enemy of society, taking a real toll, is "the war on drugs."

Governments tackling climate change

Relying on governments to do something about climate change is like hoping you have enough spit to put out a bushfire.

Rank equals politicianess

When humans reach a certain rank or level of power they become, by necessity, politicians. Their training and life skills then determine how they act.

Our Nature

Do we dishonour nature by dismissing our nature?

Individual power for change

The power of the individual as a critical thinker and discerning consumer is how the world changes fundamentally - not just politically, economically or superficially.

Sacrificing freedoms to government

The freedoms that society have already "given away" to the institution of government lie festering beneath the gaseous swamp of politics and will emerge one day as a putrid, rotting burp from the mouth of a "leader" whose monstrosity we have not yet envisaged.

Centrally planned perfection

(Start sarcastic tone) Eliminate the non-compliant in society and centrally planned perfection will reign.

Binary thinking

When binary thinking becomes binary judgement then I'm 100% against it.

Manifestation

Conception manifests.