Kerry Wendell Thornley

“ Between LBJ's Wilson and Nixon's Wilson is the same distinction as between Kissinger and Nixon or Garrison and Howard Hunt — some maniacs are sociopaths with a certain amount of style and intelligence; then there are the ones who are just sadistic neurotics — who, even if brilliant or shrewd, are essentially without imagination. Neither type is a bargain. The flamboyant sociopaths probably make a contribution in terms of stimulating creativity that at least compensates slightly for having the endure their oppressions. The neurotics of power are just an unmitigated pain in the ass. ”

“ Not because I'm essentially unegoistic, because I also understand what I've called the individualist principle — because in order to remain a member of the human race I must make restitution for my criminal negligence — in order to be able to demand convincingly that my natural rights are to be attended, that I am a participant in society — not an enemy of society. ”

“ So they find themselves mobilizing one class of oppressors (The Wind) against another — neither of which understands egoism, individualism, labor and revolution as expressions of a single principle: the viability and desirability of the sovereignty of the individual and the destruction of every social institution that impedes it. ”

“ I live independently. I answer in fear to no living being. I don't have to worry about job security because I'm not paying rent. I'm expecting to become more emotionally self-sufficient without losing my capacity for warmth and love. ”

“ They don't understand that what is socially right must be rooted in common self-interest, and that making egoism socially viable is the purpose of revolution — since the reason societies are organized is to serve the participants and all social progress must therefore perfect that common aim. ”

“ You wind up either way with this little Fuhrer inside yourself — urging you to do exactly the opposite of what you want to do, afraid to admit to anyone that what you are doing is what you think they expect instead of what you want. ”

“ Because I've got a problem to solve first, before I can devote much time to these other things and there doesn't seem any point in being surrounded day and night by informants if they aren't going to be informative about the most pressing and highest priority problem: the War Conspiracy. At this rate, by the time there are war crimes trials, all the war criminals will have died of old age. ”

“ I tell you why I don't like every action being interpreted as a vote and I why I would refuse political power of an administrative nature even if I could wield it in plain English — because it neurologically armors you the same way sexual repression does. ”

“ Then again, considering all the complaining I do about being bombarded with games in human society, I might wind up liking it. (Even in my Ayn Rand days when I used to think I was into solitude, I never was. Nor did Zen get me into it) . I always have preferred to be somewhere where the probabilities of getting laid were present. The thing is, though, under the oppression everyone else seems willing to tolerate, we only get laid when the Conspiracy decides. ”

“ Revolutionaries without a background in egoism and individual rights are shallow and seldom succeed in creating more than intrigues or conspiracies or, at the most, totalitarian bureaucracies.
Liberals who understand the principle of how property is justly acquired through labor seldom carry it through to the logical conclusion, consisting of radical opposition to land and natural resource monopoly. When they don't err in that direction, they usually tend to ignore natural rights, instead. ”

“ Dropping out of school was particularly encouraged - both in China and the U.S. It wasn't simply a conspiracy to create an ignorant mass that could be ruled more easily; it was a reflection of LBJ's conviction that intellectuals were fools — that pragmatic knowledge mingled with folk wisdom was the basis of true, useful intelligence — influenced probably very much by LBJ's resentment of the Kennedy and State Department intellectuals, who probably made him feel defensive and possibly gave him an inferiority complex. ”

“ A talented maniac arrives spouting incoherently about sometimes nearly incomprehensible urgent things and then is dead, and Joan Baez sings about that poor girl or everyone says in memorium — too fast to live, too young to die, bye-bye. ”

“ Nelson (if he is still alive, as I suspect) says these honest probes of the murders of politicians interfere with his personal privacy. For that reason, when I was living with _____ (called "Rockytop Tennessee") I was subjected to the most sadistic humiliation imaginable in bed — because Nelson, I guess, wanted revenge (although Wilson, the Thortons and Ross were all also blamed) .
"May the fleas of a thousand camels find your tent" was the inscription on a T-shirt of a guy in Arizona. ”

“ Laughter, like the orgasm, is a semi-involuntary pleasurable response to the actions of another — usually, or at least basically, laughter breaks up armoring. That's why there are dirty jokes and burlesque comics and why puritans snigger at sex! ”

“ Unfortunately, most people with both the inclination and the leisure to critique traditional modes of social conditioning and also to make the needed abstractions for comprehending that individual rightss are more helpful than harmful to egoism — of which thought process Stirner's Union of Egoists is the crude beginning — aren't of working-class background and so are indifferent to extending the concept of rights to encompass rightful acquisition of property. ”

“ So, pending the day the human race wakes up and slays all the manipulators of human intimacy, I'm not actually increasing my chances of meeting someone, sitting like the here of The Company of Men, in a bar, waiting to fall in love. ”

“ How, for example, can anyone who has not first sat half-afraid watching Stirner demolish every traditional morality appreciate Kropotkin's rational ethic of mutual aid? Instead we get these Christians who are called "popcorn" whose anarchism would forbid fucking, etc. — or would at least worry the whole subject to death with gossip. That's why I keep pushing Stimer, not unaware of the risks, either.
Cramped individuals are driven to desperate measures, time and again! ”

“ Maybe I should assassinate Reagan to get her attention, eh? (I've already thought about assassinating Jody Foster to get Reagan's attention.)
I dreamed about _____ last night. It seemed like a natural dream. She looked just like herself. Than, as I was waking up afterwards I said, "I love you, _____." And a voice seemed to say, "She is not ten miles from here". Last I heard she's in Ohio. (I've even thought of hitch-hiking up there and trying to find here — but you know how things like that go: the whole world would be talking about nothing else all the way up there and for weeks afterwards.) ”

“ Were there direct links between Leon and Harriman and Lodge, for example? Was Leon the go-between for Castro and Huntsville Alabama? (When he is under Soviet control he's called "Leon Redbone". He or the faction of his conspiracy that isn't is called "Leon Russell". The obnoxiously persistent Leon is called "Leon Everett". Then of course there was the Leon android in Blade Runner. Then there was the second Oswald who called himself "Leon Oswald".) ”

“ Anti-intellectualism was something for which LBJ was famous — as was the Gang of Four, as were the Hippies of 1967, especially the Timothy Leary faction, which was most conspicuous and therefore probably had LBJ's backing, with the slogan "Turn on, tune in, and drop out." ”

“ Very few liberals trust human nature enough to understand egoism — which is why they are liberals instead of anarchists or libertarians.
Individualists seldom understand anything about the just acquisition of property via labor applied to natural resources, with the notable exception of homesteading movements: in early America, among the Mildred Loomis faction and among the Kabouters in Amsterdam. ”

“ Take something that makes life worth living — like screwing or sex — and make an enormously, absurdly complicated problem out of it. The Tibetans killed Buddhism that way snd the Satanists are employing the same strategy to kill sex. ”

“ I live on the streets, get subjected to constant misunderstandings, think about my species and try to figure out how and why they are bent on outwitting themselves — and sound my barbaric yarp over the rooftops of the world — asking myself, "Is there salvation in hysteria?" ”

“ Such men are dangerous." And Caesar was right. We are dangerous — to them, to their power. When you can think of a sensible way of doing something and you have to argue with a gun instead of a man you become dangerous. ”

“ We spend most of our lives trying to solve problems accorind to the notions of leaders whose ideas, we find sooner or later, don't work anyway. we humble ourselves before these people and listen at their knees and then sooner or later we get fed up with them and they are officially discredited and we flock to someone else. ”

“ A popular saying of the day was that "An intellectual is a man who is educated beyond his intellect." To resort to Ayn Rand's bizarre metaphor, Atilla was wary of the witch doctor — and also in awe of actual witch doctors. ”