Speech Must Needs Be Free
Morals & Dogma
“In a free country, human speech must needs be free; and the State must listen to the maunderings of folly, and the screechings of its geese, and the brayings of its asses, as well as to the golden oracles of its wise and great men. Even the despotic old kings allowed their wise fools to say what they liked. The true alchemist will extract the lessons of wisdom from the babblings of folly.”
-Albert Pike
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It’s the last line that brought it all together. Once upon a time, the first groups would be called “cranks” with a good-natured wink. They’d write letters to the editor.
The most dramatic example of a crank must be the recently deceased Ted Kazinsky. Splintered into his terrible and tragic words of melancholy are predictions that pierce the vale. And it unsettles us that a madman might understand what our future lies better than we do.
Today... who knows?
...I mean, besides the Madman in the Woods.
Sorry -- MadMEN. Mustn’t forget Henry.