By Count Friedrich von Olsen
Forgive me if I intrude unasked…
I am of course, a maximizing capitalist, worth how much? Is it $6 billion? Or is it $7 billion? I can’t remember. And as all know, I was a virulent anti-communist, a cold warrior. Nevertheless, if you ask me for my honest view, I think that Marx and Engels had it right. It is just that they came along two centuries too early. Their formula will work, I say, when the means of production become sufficiently efficient to require that society have a permanent leisure class…
So, some more leftist philosophy follows. Remember you heard it from the Count first…
There is no force outside this world which gives justice to the weak…
There is nothing but Man, and his standards are not consistent. One year you are right about a certain thing and the next year it has become a crime. The truth is there are no standards; only expediencies. The wind changes; the weathervane turns. That is what ideology is: A weathervane which is subject to expediency or whim…
There was an empress of Russia who made it high treason to wear pink. It was her favorite color, so she preserved it for herself. Materialism in the end teaches you to despise everything that is material. It leaves you with nothing of value. Survival is the only end worth living for. To live becomes the highest ideal, because after the end there is no reward for the good, no punishment for the evil…
Selfishness is the effort to derive happiness. Selfishness leaves everyone unhappy. We philosophize one way and then we act another. People seem kind and generous but they most likely are kind and generous because they hope to get something out of it…
Everything is a lie, but if you concentrate really hard and focus, you just might be able to distinguish one lie from another…
It is very charming to find an intelligent woman who does stupid things…
My line of business has taught me three things: 1) No one is to be trusted. 2) No one is to be believed. 3) Anyone is capable of doing anything…