Jacob Medina’s Reviews > Unqualified Reservations, Vol. 01 > Status Update

“Modern politics is a chapter in the history of religion.”

“Technology is moving along pretty well. Moore's Law continues to zoom along. We have fast computers and fancy mobile phones and other things that no one in the 18th century could dream of. If they could see our political system, however, I'm afraid they'd understand it all too well.”

“Democratic government before the civil service era was also corrupt on an almost indescribable scale.”

“Yet at the same time, we can’t expect the truth to triumph on its own, because said truth has been floating around since the 1860s at least, and it has gotten nowhere at all.”

“What we’re seeing here is a power structure which has lost its connection to reality. It’s rulers consider it the most ethical and responsible system of government in human history. In fact, it is morally and intellectually bankrupt.”

“If the Cathedral can lie now, it can lie then…Rather, the standard of proof will simply be raised and raised again, as of course it has been already.”

“The first step toward a historical perspective on the conflict is to acknowledge that both of these traditions are exactly that: traditions. You did not invent progressivism any more than Billy Joe invented fundamentalism”

“In other words, you do not feel you have any serious alternative to supporting the movement. And you are probably right”

“As I’ll explain, passive resistance is not your only option, but it is a thousand million times better than Outer Party activism. Do not support the Outer Party.”

“Face it: political democracy in the United States is dead. It died on March 4, 1933.”

“FDR preserved democracy the same way that the Russians preserved Lenin.”