Notes from reading, late October thru early November '26

1/11

Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you keep digging

Meditations #7.59

I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.

Anthony Bourdain

Today i escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions - not outside"

Meditations #9.13

4/11

Labor under Hawke and Keating had created a more open Australia, one that provided the fortunate, the wealthy, the adaptable and the talented with great opportunities to prosper, while affording more protection and encouragement to others than any Coalition government would've offered.

A Litttle History of the Labor Party

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will either be extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.

Politics, #4.11 1296a.4

8/11

...populists can destroy but they can not build new pathways to a better society. While grievance, alienation and cost-of living pressures have catapulted right-wing heroes and heroes into power and prominence, the people who succumbed to their embrace are the people willing to dispatch them with disdain.

Paul Kelly, The Australian

...grievance-exploiting populists fail the tests of effective, Gov’t and finish betraying the people they purport to champion.

Paul Kelly, The Australian