"So long ago.
You were warned of today."
SearingTruth
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"But today I can reveal to you a simple and powerful truth.
A tyrant’s only ally is fear.
Just as in a fairytale where the villain cannot exist unless you believe in it, tyranny cannot exist unless you fear it.
Whether fear of personal oppression or phantom enemies presented by the state, terror must be maintained or the cohesion of authoritarian control always disintegrates.
And so today I say to you that the way to victory is easy.
Just stand up and fight.
Unlike our founding fathers, we are not asked to forge towards the defeat of some implacable enemy through fields and valleys awash with filth and blood. We are not asked to leave our homes, our land, and our families on an almost certainly fatal journey with little hope of return. And we are not asked to die the brutal and agonizing death of so many anonymous patriots, whose last anguished cry was freedom, alone on some cold and desolate battlefield.
No my friends, all we are asked to do is stand up and fight with our voices and our unaltered votes.
My fellow citizens, the truth is that the Constitution fails to defend itself, enduring only in the brave hearts of those who would uphold it."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave excerpt, 2005
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"And so together we shared the fate of all the failed democracies before us, joining those pitiful beings who had held the light of freedom in one hand, and put it out with the other."
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"When each and every one of us is as precious as any other.
That is when we are human."
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Stop swatting flies.
ST
"A Grand Challenge
My friends, the simple truth is that we are wasting our precious time, resources, intellect, and passion. As a species we are just as aimless today as when our primitive ancestors first ventured out upon this earth.
Today I am proposing that for the first time in human history, we change that.
Radically.
More than any time in history, humanity needs a grand challenge. Not only to avert its extinction, but also to indelibly etch the common bond of mutual reliance and cooperation on current and future generations.
Fortunately, all of the forces that now seem to conspire against us can quickly be turned to our advantage.
For the first time in human history we actually possess technologies so advanced that any physical problem can potentially be solved.
And yet, I wonder, do we possess the will and wisdom to utilize them for our salvation instead of our destruction?
I propose that we find out.
So today I offer you a radical and stark choice between two future realities.
An aimless future of continued war and conflict, with all its accompanying suffering and death; or a limitless future dedicated to defeating suffering and death itself, with all its accompanying technological advancement and social evolution.
Yes indeed, I have a new plan, for all of you. A plan of hope. A plan of adventure. A plan of such extraordinary magnitude as to take the breath, and challenge the senses, of all who would consider it. A plan to bind our common people in hope, and finally free our conscience for noble purpose.
I propose that in the next three decades we at last end the scourge of human disease upon this Earth, and begin the inevitable adventure of humanity's migration beyond it.
We shall at last unlock the fundamental secrets of our biology so we may conquer any illness or defect at will, and we shall free ourselves from the bonds of our native home so we may evade global calamities, and begin the expansion of our species beyond this world.
No longer shall our survival be dependent upon the random and dispassionate forces of nature. No longer shall we quiver in anguish as we helplessly watch those we love suffer and die in agony from an endless list of human disease and dysfunction. No longer shall our globe be divided in constant turmoil and conflict while the hammer of fate hangs precariously balanced over all we know and love.
We shall at last take control of our future, our fate, and ourselves.
No other endeavor ever attempted by humankind will require more genius, dedication, compassion, and sacrifice.
And no other endeavor ever attempted by humankind will be more vital to the continued existence of our species.
I understand that for many this may initially seem like pure science fiction. This is to be expected since the scales of the threats we face reside within the scope of what we have always considered to be science fiction. However, in reality, all of these goals are well within our technological reach. They are the quickest, and I believe only, way for our species to battle both the physical and societal threats that will continue to confront us."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
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"Tell me, when will the cruelty of mankind end?
When a single heart of suffering awakens all who sleep."
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"Most often the messenger we seek is within ourselves, and our saviors a mere reflection of what we have always known to be true. Do not abandon your heart my friend, and it will serve you well."
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"Tick, Tick
Fellow citizens, the truth is that our present can only be as stable as our future.
For too long we have hobbled from decade to decade, generation to generation, and millennium to millennium, myopically adhering to superfluous battles that can never be won. Never once as a species forwarding or embracing an all encompassing path towards a certainly better future.
Our excuses have been many, our reasoning mostly incoherent, and our lack of vision as a species, certainly fatal.
For in the meantime, as each tick of the ages has passed, the critical threats posed and ignored by our species discordance have increased exponentially.
Pandemic famine and disease, massively destructive weapons, fatal atmospheric and climate change, super volcanic eruptions, catastrophic space body impacts, Orwellian societies of unparalleled oppression, and many other global catastrophes too numerous to list here, waiting to befall us at any moment.
In fact, one of the most immediate and ominous threats facing America and much of the world today is the utilization of advanced technologies for the implementation of authoritarian control over societies.
My friends, the truth is that if we do not fight for and secure freedom today, the time will very soon come when it will be almost impossible to do so.
In retrospect, when one soberly considers the critical challenges that we must face together to survive as a species, our differences, at times, can become almost imperceptible."
SearingTruth, A Future of the Brave, 2005
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Trump is about to unleash all the executive power we awarded in terror after 9/11 fellow citizens, assured it would not be used against us.
But now will be.
ST
"And so together we shared the fate of all the failed democracies before us, joining those pitiful beings who had held the light of freedom in one hand, and put it out with the other."
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"Just do what Jesus would do.
Be kind and compassionate and just.
Take care, first of all, for the weakest and poorest and most suffering.
And then tear up the halls of greed that enable it."
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"One last lantern.
To light the rest.
Shines.
And drowns the darkness."
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"I wonder if we should be content.
When the innocent are not."
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"Any Americans who still wonder how Adolf Hitler could have brought Germany to its knees, and the globe to its destruction, are sleeping so soundly they cannot be woken."
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"It is an old tale.
Catastrophe assaults the senses of a free nation.
Fear, a tyrant's only ally, is seized.
Democracy, a despot's greatest foe, is assaulted.
The people, liberties only defense, are subdued.
All in accomplice of those sworn, upon death, to protect them."
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"History binds, and warns, and benefits us."
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"It's not a war on terror gone wrong, it's a war on American liberty gone right."
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Perhaps the world might now understand fellow citizens.
And save itself.
I don't know. I've enjoyed and suffered with you, as hopes were rewarded and then withdrawn.
ST
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"Beware of any god that hurts you."
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"Truth is defined by the weakest of us who must suffer through it."
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For decades I've been reminding you that we are all the same fellow citizens.
And share the same fate, that we might escape together.
But sadly now is the time when everyone will discover it for themselves.
ST
"We suddenly discovered we had already surrendered."
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