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Tao Stoic 251

"I heard Rushdie speak of Muslem fundamentalism, Hindu fundamentalism, Catholic fundamentalism and so on as forms of Fascism. Are you in agreement with him Master?"

"I am, but only with one, necessary, addition. Not only the fundamentalist strain is thus, but in fact all groups that do not tolerate Free Think, belong to the Nazism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism, Democrazism fanatics.

Don't you see, they all take free thought as a personal insult, an intolerable critic on themselves. Certainly, a slave or a prisoner would love freedom first, yet, when he cannot have it, he also HATES the person who has."

"But a religious-, political-, or democratic crank CAN adopt that freedom of thought if he wants to Master!"

"No. They cannot, and they know they cannot. They know that their minds have been tampered with, have been kinked, are subnatural, but instead of hating those who did that, they hate those who liberate themselves. Now, why is that? It is because they show superiority in Nature, enough for hatred. In the eyes of a western scientist who ususally imitates a mild-, fashionable tolerance, and go for Double Think, Free Thinkers are stupid noughts. In the eyes of the non-free dolts, they are threats to their self-inflicted insanities. You see, a caged bird will free itself when some soul has left the door of the cage open, but a self-inflicted slave remains caged even when all doors are open to him."


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Ven 2005-01-24