“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer.             Hello, young Padawan     Today, we are going to discuss a subject that is close to my heart, and it boils down to this: “Whoever tells the official story is he even aware that he…

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          “If one is not sensitive, one is never sublime”. Voltaire, letter to M. de la Harpe – August 11, 1766             Hello, young Padawan   Who told you that in the United States, everything was overrated, standardized, and boring? Those who have only been to the big cities, no doubt, but even there, you just have to get out of…

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          “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe –                Hello, young Padawan     Your complexion is probably cloudy at the end of winter, like the eggs that your boyfriend cooks for you on Sunday mornings, I mean dry and gray, lol. So you eat them anyway because it’s the breakfast of…

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      “Evolution is not a simple blossoming without difficulty and without struggle, like that of organic life, but the hard and forced work on oneself.” Georg W. F. Hegel.             Hello, young padawan,     In this more than atypical “atmosphere,” where mood and morality have taken quite a blow, I thought it would be appropriate to tackle a small subject on a…

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