~ B-WWGTGT? ~ But – Who Will Guard The Guardians Themselves? ~ Decimus Junius Juvenalis ~ Satire VI ~ 100[?]
~ C-OE-HNRBIA ~ Crime – Once Exposed – Has No Refuge But In Audacity ~ Cornelius Tacitus ~ The Histories ~ 100-110
~ TAJ-A-WIG-B-AMGOT(ML)? ~ Take Away Justice – And – What Is Government – But – A Magnified Gang Of Thieves (Magna Latrocinia)? ~ Augustine ~ City Of God ~ 426
~ TNO-WWS-TNO-WWROD-ROJ ~ To No One – Will We Sell – To No One – Will We Refuse Or Delay – Right Or Justice ~ Magna Carta ~ 1216
~ TSSUTDAINC ~ The Sun Shineth Upon The Dunghill And Is Not Corrupted ~ John Lyly ~ Euphues ~ 1578
~ TEMBSFFEOLAL ~ The Earth Must Be Set Free From Entanglements Of Lords And Landlords ~ Gerrard Winstanley ~ The True Levellers Standard Advanced ~ 1649
~ SVIBF-W-IB-J-LAB ~ So Vice Is Beneficial Found – When – It’s By – Justice – Lopt And Bound ~ Bernard Mandeville ~ The Grumbling Hive ~ 1705
~ IFTL-THIAP-W-WA-A-MD ~ Ill Fares The Land – To Hast’ning Ills A Prey – Where – Wealth Accumulates – And – Men Decay ~ Oliver Goldsmith ~ The Deserted Village ~ 1770
~ L-AIMOBAAOA-IDTM-AIWDI ~ Life – Although It May Only Be An Accumulation Of Anguish – Is Dear To Me – And I Will Defend It ~ “The Monster” ~ Mary Shelley ~ Frankenstein ~ 01-01-1818
~ TOTM ~ Tyranny Of The Majority ~ Alexis de Tocqueville ~ Democracy In America ~ 1835
~ W-PBAWOL-F-AGOMIAS-OTCOT-TCFT-ALSTAI-A-AMC ~ When – Plunder Becomes A Way Of Life – For – A Group Of Men In A Society – Over The Course Of Time – They Create For Themselves – A Legal System That Authorizes It – And – A Moral Code That Glorifies It ~ Frédéric Bastiat ~ Economic Sophisms ~ 1845
~ TDOFIASCBJBEIP ~ The Degree Of Civilization In A Society Can Be Judged By Entering Its Prisons ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky ~ The House Of The Dead ~ 1860-1862
~ ‘U’-IITEOAF-SI-A=PPTMDSTWODDUI ~ “Utility” – Is In The End Only A Faith – Something Imagined – And – Perhaps Precisely The Most Disastrous Stupidity That Will One Day Do Us In ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ The Gay Science ~ 1882
~ TQI-TWEII-LA-LP-SP-PE-SP? ~ The Question Is – To What Extent Is It – Life Advancing – Life Preserving – Species Preserving – Perhaps Even – Species Propagating? ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Beyond Good And Evil ~ 1886
~ BT-WFM-YYDNBAM-FWYGLITA-TAGAIY ~ Beware That – When Fighting Monsters – You Yourself Do Not Become A Monster – For When You Gaze Long Into The Abyss – The Abyss Gazes Also Into You ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Beyond Good And Evil ~ 1907
~ PCMA-F-WIESTDMFA-D-OA-P ~ People Call Me A – Feminist – Whenever I Express Sentiments That Differentiate Me From A – Doormat – Or A – Prostitute ~ Rebeca West ~ Mr. Chesterton In Hysterics ~ 14-11-1913
~ SISTBTBOD;ELTMEP ~ Sunlight Is Said To Be The Best Of Disinfectants; Electric Light The Most Efficient Policeman ~ Louis Brandeis ~ Other People’s Money – And How Bankers Use It ~ 1914
~ WTCOTCD-W-TCBTC? ~ Who Takes Care Of The Caretaker’s Daughter – When – The Caretaker’s Busy Taking Care? ~ Chick Endor ~ Lady Be Good ~ 1924
~ SS ~ Shakespeare’s Sister ~ Virginia Woolf ~ A Room Of One’s Own ~ 1929
~ E-WWAIIP-INFA-E-B-A-AN-O-E-AD ~ Evil – When We Are In Its Power – Is Not Felt As – Evil – But – As – A Necessity – Or – Even – A Duty ~ Simone Weil ~ Gravity And Grace ~ 1952
~ IMBTTTL-CCTH-B-IC-RTH ~ It May Be True That The Law – Cannot Change The Heart – But – It Can – Restrain The Heartless ~ Martin Luther King Junior ~ Social Justice ~ [Lecture] ~ 18-12-1963
~ ATPIH-TC-TD-TC-A-TD-MBATSBA-FFM-A-TEOC ~ At This Point In History – The Capacity – To Doubt – To Criticize – And – To Disobey – May Be All That Stands Between A – Future For Mankind – And – The End Of Civilization ~ Erich Fromm ~ Disobedience As A Psychological And Moral Problem ~ 1963
~ TTPIAPOTMVC-TTRTRATSFTWSTB-IINAWL ~ This Troubled Planet Is A Place Of The Most Violent Contrasts – Those That Receive The Rewards Are Totally Separated From Those Who Shoulder The Burdens – It Is Not A Wise Leadership ~ Spock (Leonard Nimoy) ~ “The Cloud Minders” ~ Star Trek ~ 28-02-1969
~ TTLOWCTPWTLOM ~ The True Liberation Of Women Cannot Take Place Without The Liberation Of Men ~ Therese Casgrain ~ A Woman In A Man’s World ~ 1972
~ B-B-T/W-A-TCSODA-MA-LAI-TCFTBAVIA ~ But – Between – Thoughts / Words – And – The Critical Step Of Disobeying A – Malevolent Authority – Lies Another Ingredient – The Capacity For Transforming Beliefs And Values Into Action ~ Stanley Milgram ~ Obedience To Authority ~ 1974
~ TMDBPOTGFOWWTPWF ~ The Most Deplorable By-Product Of The General Fear Of Witches Was The Professional Witch-Finder ~ Christina Hole ~ Witchcraft In England ~ 1977
~ NMWCTGCP-TEOTWLTTITS ~ No Matter What Circumstances Trigger Great Collective Persecutions – The Experience Of Those Who Live Through Them Is The Same ~ Rene Girard ~ The Scapegoat ~ (Le Bouc Émissaire) ~ 1982
~ ANNF-PI-I-D ~ Another Name For – Political Interference – Is – Democracy ~ Walter Stewart ~ Towers Of Gold Feet Of Clay ~ 1982
~ APATTVBTCTDHAIR ~ All Persecutors Attribute To Their Victims Both The Capacity To Do Harm And Its Reverse ~ Rene Girard ~ The Scapegoat (Le Bouc Émissaire) ~ 1982
~ SLAPP ~ Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation ~ Penelope Canan + George Pring ~ Studying Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation ~ 1988
~ UTPOTLBMTEOIOR ~ Use The Power Of The Law By Making The Establishment Obey Its Own Rules ~ Saul Alinsky ~ Rules For Radicals ~ 1989
~ WSFTUPWWD? ~ Who Speaks For The Unknown People Who Will Die? ~ Paul Hawken ~ The Ecology Of Commerce ~ 1993
~ OC-TSWFOO ~ Of Course – The Suffering Will Fall On Others ~ John Ralston Saul ~ The Unconscious Civilization ~ 1995
~ LWBBPBLTBS ~ Liberty Will Be Better Protected By Light Than By Shadows ~ David Brin ~ The Transparent Society ~ 1998
~ UTO-OAL-THSUWITP ~ Underutilized Tools Of – Openness And Light – That Have Served Us Well In The Past ~ David Brin ~ The Transparent Society ~ 1998
~ SPAWBAHVWTMAEPTMAIAETHAHOODAUOS ~ Scientific Progress Alone Would Be A Hollow Victory Without The Moral And Ethical Progress That Must Accompany It And Ensure The Humanization And Humanity Of Our Development And Use Of Science ~ Margaret Somerville ~ The Ethical Canary ~ 2000
~ WRAAFOPRTP-OTWPHR ~ When Rights Are A Function Of Property Rather Than Personhood – Only Those With Property Have Rights ~ David Korten ~ When Corporations Rule The World ~ 2001
~ TUMT-WWIBLTLIAWIEWTBITWTIH? ~ The Universal Mirror Test – What Would It Be Like To Live In A World If Everyone Were To Behave In The Way That I Have? ~ Howard Gardner + Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi + William Damon ~ Good Work ~ 2001
~ FOPBF ~ Fear Of People Being Free ~ John McMurtry ~ Value Wars ~ 2002
~ TTITOTWAI-TWHAFR ~ The Trouble Is That – Only The Witches Are Imagined – The Witch-Hunts Are Frighteningly Real ~ Wendy Kaminer ~ Free For All ~ 2002
~ P-TWOTA-HAB-TTWCTLEFVQTTCE ~ Politically – The Weakness Of The Argument – Has Always Been – That Those Who Choose The Lesser Evil Forget Very Quickly That They Chose Evil ~ Hannah Arendt ~ Responsibility And Judgment ~ 2003
~ WITNMTTS? ~ Why Is There No Monument To The Slaves? ~ Afua Cooper ~ The Hanging Of Angelique ~ 2006
~ APGCS ~ A Power Governments Cannot Suppress ~ Howard Zinn ~ A Power Governments Cannot Suppress ~ 2007
~ L-IASWTEO-A-JASSV-WHTRTSED-IRAPOIAWDT ~ Law – Is A Story We Tell Each Other – About – Justice And Shared Social Values – We Have To Retell This Story Every Day – It Replicates And Persists Only Insofar As We Do That ~ David Johnson ~ The Life Of The Law Online ~ 2007
~ ECI-I-BIWT-H-A-D-D-O-D-IO-O-UOAASPTEOPOTDSOYB ~ Evil Consists In – Intentionally – Behaving In Ways That – Harm – Abuse – Demean – Dehumanize – Or – Destroy – Innocent Others — Or – Using One’s Authority And Systemic Power To Encourage Or Permit Others To Do So On Your Behalf ~ Philip Zimbardo ~ The Lucifer Effect ~ 2007
~ EOH ~ Economics Of Happiness ~ The Economics Of Happiness ~ Mark Anielski ~ 2007
~ J-IW-L-LL-IP ~ Justice – Is What – Love – Looks Like – In Public ~ Cornel West ~ Brother West ~ 2009
~ TNSIM-WEUTETWIO-OBOTWIUAW ~ The Narrow Self-Interest Model – Which Encourages Us To Expect The Worst In Others – Often Brings Out The Worst In Us As Well ~ Robert Frank ~ The Economic Naturalist’s Field Guide ~ 2010
~ STB-A-STP-WW-FTB ~ Save The Banks – And – Screw The People – Worked Wonders – For The Banks ~ David Harvey ~ The Enigma Of Capital ~ 2010
~ TRNTBCIP ~ The Responsibility Not To Be Complicit In Plunder ~ Paul Collier ~ The Plundered Planet ~ 2010
~ TD:’HIHNFP-SEWHDS’-CNIAACOL-A-ISLUU ~ The Defence: “Had I Had Not Facilitated Plunder – Someone Else Would Have Done So” – Cuts No Ice In A Court Of Law – And – It Should Leave Us Unmoved ~ Paul Collier ~ The Plundered Planet ~ 2010
~ WCBTC-TN ~ When Conflicted Between Two Choices – Take Neither ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb ~ The Bed Of Procruste ~ 2010
~ WRSWD? ~ Which Rights Should We Defend? ~ Robert Frank ~ The Darwin Economy ~ 2011
~ RBWY ~ Reform Begins With You ~ David Cay Johnston ~ The Fine Print ~ 2012
~ B-GATW-KT-FAP-CH-A-I-IP-IP-NMHF-NMHO ~ But – Governments – Around The World – Know That – Fear And Poverty – Can Hold – An – Injustice – In Place – In Perpetuity – No Matter How Flagrant – No Matter How Obscene ~ Thomas King ~ The Inconvenient Indian ~ 2012
~ R-A-TROTG-TEC-TPA-TPTTCPT ~ Regulations – Are – The Rules Of The Game – To Ensure Competition – To Prevent Abuses – To Protect Those That Cannot Protect Themselves ~ Joseph Stiglitz ~ The Price Of Inequality ~ 2012
~ TWDTWMRTWDTW ~ Those Who Drink The Water Must Remember Those Who Dug The Well ~ John Maxwell ~ The 15 Invaluable Laws Of Growth ~ 2012
~ TINPFOMWHS ~ There Is No Penalty For Opinion Makers Who Harm Society ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb ~ Antifragile ~ 2012
~ C-AN-P-A-M-IN-S ~ Corporations – Are Not – People – And – Money – Is Not – Speech ~ Thom Hartman ~ The Crash Of 2016 ~ 2013
~ BLM ~ Black Lives Matter ~ Alicia Garza + Patrisse Cullors + Opal Tometi ~ 13-07-2013
~ SVIAB-EDTAMOPWAROSMAPOACT ~ Sexual Violence Is A Business – Every Day There Are Millions Of People Who Are Raped Or Sexually Molested As Part Of A Commercial Transaction ~ Gary Haugen + Victor Boutros ~ The Locust Effect ~ 2014
~ ICB ~ I Can’t Breathe ~ Eric Garner ~ [Bystander Video] ~ 17-07-2014
~ TLIPHAHD-A-TTLIS ~ Those Living In Palaces Have Always Had Different Agendas To Those Living In Shacks – And – That Is Unlikely To Change ~ Yuval Noah Harari ~ Homo Deus ~ 2015
~ TFOGOKITMOHS ~ The Freedom Of Gods Or Kings – Is The Measure Of Human Slavery ~ David Graeber ~ The Utopia Of Rules ~ 2015
~ IEIFS-I-TCATP-TE ~ If Everything Is For Sale – Including – The Courts And The Police – Trust Evaporates ~ Yuval Noah Harari ~ Homo Deus ~ 2015
~ A-IS-ISTAOT-TPATB ~ Accountability – It Seems – Is Something That Applies Only To – The People At The Bottom ~ Thomas Frank ~ Rendezvous With Oblivion ~ 2018
~ WITOVAAPLF-AA-Y-TOTTAUTSTITOAALDACSFT ~ We Insist That Our Values Are A Precious Legacy From – Ancient Ancestors – Yet – The Only Thing That Allows Us To Say This Is That Our Ancestors Are Long Dead And Cannot Speak For Themselves ~ Yuval Noah Harari ~ 21 Lessons For The 21st Century ~ 2018
~ WITIO-D-IAIMG-THU-D-AAS-WOLSB ~ We Invented The Institution Of – Democracy – In All Its Many Guises – To Help Us – Decide – As A Society – What Our Laws Should Be ~ Steven Johnson ~ Farsighted ~ 2018
~ TAP-HMWWD-A-HQ-?~ The Anthropic Principle – How Much Will We Do – And – How Quickly – ? ~ David Wallace-Wells ~ The Uninhabitable Earth ~ 2019
~ WDNPLIAWH ~ We Do Not Presently Live In A World Without Hunger ~ David Wallace-Wells ~ The Uninhabitable Earth ~ 2019
~ TSBMTOVIAHS ~ There Should Be More Than One Voice In A Healthy Society ~ Li Wenliang ~ [Email] ~ 30-12-2019
~ ICB ~ I Can’t Breathe ~ Javier Ambler ~ [Bystander Video] ~ 28-03-2019
~ ICB-PS ~ I Can’t Breathe – Please Stop ~ Elijah McClain ~ 30-08-2019
~ ICB ~ I Can’t Breathe ~ Manuel Ellis ~ [Bystander Video] ~ 03-03-2020
~ ICB ~ I Can’t Breathe ~ George Floyd ~ [Bystander Video] ~ 25-05-2020