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Thursday May 23, 2013
Today in 2008, Utah Phillips dies in Nevada City, California. Born May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio. He was a labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller, poet, self-identifying as an anarchist.

I heartily accept the motto, — ‘That government is best which governs least’; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — ‘That government is best which governs not at all’; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. — Henry David Thoreau


Topic: ‘Soma’

1. The Soma Generation

RealityBloger | It occurs to me of late that what we have always been told about psychiatric conditions and the pharmaceuticals that supposedly mask their symptoms, are just a means to an end. For when one group of specialized yet non-medical pseudo-analysts, who go by the name of psychiatrists, are allowed to diagnose and name thousands upon thousands of “conditions” which require pharmaceutical drugs of one form or the other – from opiates to psychotics, inhibitors to chemical lobotomies – and then are given the power and legal authority to institutionalize anyone that they choose, for any condition they can make up, I think society in general has a serious problem.... - [More]

Posted: June 20, 2011 in Articles