"Monarchy can easily be debunked, but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach—-men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
— C.S. Lewis
"We live, always, by two codes—the external and professed code based on an artificially cosmopolitan culture; and the inner, real, and motivating code, based on the true response of our instincts to their habitual stimuli. It is all very well to theorise decoratively from the outer code—but we must apply the inner code when we wish to calculate actual results. Stripping off the mask of nineteenth century euphemism and decorum, we know damn well that the human race is divided into many groups whose whole instinctive conceptions of what is desirable and what is undesirable are so antipodally apart in half to three-quarters of the affairs of life, that they cannot possibly be thought of as having any goal or complete set of standards in common. And to pretend that such a community can exist, is to complicate the matter all the worse. We misunderstand all the more, when we feign to understand what we do not understand."
— H.P. Lovecraft (via greatmindsonrace)
(Source: greatmindsonrace.wordpress.com, via antigravity000)
“America’s criminal justice system is really strict and harsh”
No it isn’t.
Let me illustrate a hierarchy for you of strict criminal justice system, foolish, mentally ill leftists.
North Korea’s criminal justice system = Insanely strict.
Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system = Strict as fuck.
China’s criminal justice system = Very strict.
Singapore’s criminal justice system = Strict.
Japan’s criminal justice system = Strict.
America’s criminal justice system = Not strict.
Sweden’s criminal justice system = Effectively non-existent.
No, locking people up in what are essentially expenses covered studio flats for a couple of decades isn’t “strict”. Nor is repeatedly letting recidivist criminals out of their playpen to rape and murder again and again “strict”. Nor for that matter is a system where a man on death row can prolong his appeals process to such a large degree he can outlive his victim’s family.
I don’t know what bizarre metric you mentally ill, ethnomasochistic fucktards are employing here, but whether it’s macrohistorical or contemporary, America’s criminal justice system is not strict.
"Before the camps I regarded the existence of nationality as something that shouldn’t be noticed - nationality did not really exist, only humanity. But in the camps, one learns: if you belong to a successful nation, you are protected and you survive. If you are part of universal humanity, too bad for you."
— Alexander Solzhenitsyn
