One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.– Carl Sagan

“All men having power ought to be distrusted.” We must learn the lessons of history. People in power, more often than not, abuse that power. To maintain our freedoms, this will mean challenging government officials whenever they exceed the bounds of their office.-James Madison

A very telling quote from a person idiots made a millionaire (and one of the reasons I don't give a crud about humanity): "They trust me — dumb fucks,"
Sums up "Social Media".

Too many wars are fought almost as if by rote. Too many wars are fought out of sloganry, out of battle hymns, out of aged, musty appeals to patriotism that went out with knighthood and moats. Love your country because it is eminently worthy of your affection. Respect it because it deserves your respect. Be loyal to it because it cannot survive without your loyalty. But do not accept the shedding of blood as a natural function or a prescribed way of history—even if history points this up by its repetition. That men die for causes does not necessarily sanctify that cause. And that men are maimed and torn to pieces every fifteen and twenty years does not immortalize or deify the act of war… find another means that does not come with the killing of your fellow-man.-Rod Sterling

^ i think it's the other way round:
man makes plans, god destroys them.
or:
life is what happens in between all those plans you make.

You're "thinking" too much into it, just imagine not existing as we will... no pun.

...or, as "gods" do. LMAO

The question isn't whether some people have more power than others, but how they came by it. Was the process free and fair? Or did they lie, steal, and kill their way to the top?– A. Barton Hinkle, "What Do We Mean When We Talk about Equality?" [May 2017]

What we are facing today is a nuclear rogue state run by demented individuals who, steeped in a culture of racial superiority, total impunity and imperial hubris, are constantly trying to bring us closer to a nuclear war. These people are not constrained by anything, not morals, not international law, not even common sense or basic logic. In truth, we are dealing with a messianic cult every bit as insane as the one of Jim Jones or Adolf Hitler and like all self-worshiping crazies they profoundly believe in their invulnerability.-Saker

You talking about US??

Steal life... no, unless

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.– Ludwig von Mises

I first found;: Deadbeat, Ghosts Just Wanna Have Fun
ROTFL

Is it significant thatt deaf people rely heavily on batteries??