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Sometimes I struggle with whether it is better to try to create wealth that can be measured in money, or to shun the monetary system because it is a fraud. But when I study the Austrians, I am reminded that wealth acquired through serving customers (genuinely, and not by bankster-privilege) is a measure of advancing civilization. It increases the availability of leisure, which then may be applied to endeavors further out on the limbs of the division of labor, which can then be applied to further wealth-creation, or the rewards (earned by production) of consumption. And so, I exhort myself in the mirror to build it even as they tear it down, to push the stone up the hill while the capricious gods punish us for the sins of humanity in its foolishness and venality, to not be deterred by material suffering, or even psychic distress, in my efforts to make life just a little better for the people I serve.

Screw you, Zizek. We all walk alone, and you get the companion you deserve.

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Send him to Canada to try out their new solution for depression

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And make no mistake, the entire "climate change" religion is this philosophy's holy grail. Dire predictions, no matter how many failed to materialize, are made again and again. As the old predictions get memory holed, new ones that are equally unfalsifiable are put forth and we are all shamed if we do not follow the edicts that supposedly save us all from calamity.

Of course they never articulate the reversal of human progress against human poverty and misery that capitalism has advanced that is absolutely necessary if we are to follow their lunacy.

"Yes, us entitled, wealthy aristocrats, who are beneficiaries of wealth created by capitalism are here to save humanity and the first order of business is to increase human suffering and misery by denying humanity the use of the most efficient sources of energy because if we do not, we will all most certainly be punished by mother earth. And we cannot have that. Now excuse me as I take this private jet to promote my climate religion to the peons that must follow our edicts."

The audacity of these communist A holes is remarkable.

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Mar 29, 2023Liked by el gato malo

Kitty, I think you meant “war of the joyless upon the joyful “.

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Never trust a fat communist, never trust a skinny cook.

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I can tell from his tweets that he is fat, ugly, and pissed off because he's crap in bed. No wonder he's miserable. He probably holds a grudge against a disappointed lover who liked cats.

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I don’t know what’s dumber: Zizek’s word salad or those who agree with him.

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This is what happens when mental health issues are espoused by civilizations as dogma.

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Tom Lehrer once described an intellectual as "someone who enjoys giving helpful advice, to people who are happier than he is."

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Trudeau & his Commies are giving out “dirt nap” pills for depression

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The only thing worth "struggle" is getting the damn dull can opener to work so you can dish out my cat food. BTW, it's a fact that communists/progressives and other knee-jerk leftists are all, repeat, ALL mentally ill and incurably unhappy, especially with themselves, and that their lives are totally based on unwarranted assumptions. They do NOT make good cat sitters.

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I am certain Slavoj Žižek has never replaced a timing belt in a car. The probability that a "fan" of Žižek having never changed a timing belt is very high.

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Mar 29, 2023·edited Mar 29, 2023

They hate you, but want to rule you like Big Brother deep down inside

Might be inevitable and not only because Big Brother conspires to dumb us down and suck us joyless, but also because of our countries own mental laziness and mass-cultural distractions that make deep and cogent thought…

…a Big Bother.

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I would take 1 year of joy and passion over 100 years of that guy's life!

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Apropos of nothing: to prove that cats are hard-wired to work hard (when not sleeping), get a pile of crinkle-cut paper and a long stick, and imitate a rat crawling under the pachysandra. Best cat toy ever!

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"he even quotes pickety, that most relentless of innumerate crackpots."

Plus he's another miserable human being, just like this one.

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