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Stuck in the Mud - //American Stagnancy// While this America settles in the mould of its vulgarity, heavily thickening to empire, And protest, only a bubble in the molten mass, pops and sighs out, and the mass hardens... -selection from Robinson Jeffers' //Shine, Perishing Republic//



"I fear that it will utlimately be too invariably fixed in the same institutions, the same prejudices, the same manners, so that mankind will be stopped and circumscribed; that the mind will swing backwards and forwards forever, without begetting fresh ideas... -Alexis de Tocqueville, __Democracy in America__
 * that humanity will cease to advance**."

"And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, __The Great Gatsby__

"What is the price-current of an honest man and a patriot to-day? They hesitate, and they regret, and sometimes they petition; but they do nothing in earnest and with effect. They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy the evil, that they may no longer have it to regret. At most, they give only a cheap vote, and a feeble countenance and God-speed, to the right, as it goes by them." -Henry David Thoreau, __On the Duty of Civil Disobedience__

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