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Yes, him. Alessio from Naples.

Mr. de Tocqueville wrote these things by 1840. To think about them on the toilet at home in 2009 is something everyone does; to think about them in 1832, while visiting American prisons, is not.

Public progress, de Tocqueville: "However, it may happen that an excessive taste for material goods leads men to place themselves in the hands of the first master that presents itself to them. In fact, in the life of every democratic people, there is a very dangerous passage. When the taste for material well-being develops faster than civilization and the habit of freedom, there comes a moment when men let themselves be carried away and almost lose their heads at the sight of the goods they are about to acquire.
Only concerned with making a fortune, they fail to grasp the close connection that unites the well-being of each to the prosperity of all. In such cases, it will not even be necessary to strip them of the rights they enjoy: they themselves will willingly deprive themselves of them... If a skilled and ambitious individual manages to seize power at such a critical moment, he will find the way open to any abuse. It will be enough for him to take care for a while of material interests, and no one will hold him accountable for the rest. Let him ensure order first! A nation that asks its government for the sole maintenance of order is already a slave at heart, a slave to its well-being, and at any moment, the man destined to enslave it may appear. When the vast majority of citizens only want to take care of their private affairs, the smallest parties can seize power.
It is not rare then to see on the vast stage of the world multitudes represented by a few men who speak in the name of an absent or inattentive crowd, who act amidst universal immobility, arbitrarily disposing of everything: changing laws and tyrannizing at their pleasure over customs; to the point that one cannot help but be amazed at how a great people can fall into such unworthy and weak hands."

"you are free to do whatever you want, but remember well that you are slaves." Well, you might be interested in de Tocqueville. "And then I ask myself, are we really so numb to power that we are disoriented in a condition of its absence, seeking it in the first passerby who offers it to us, as if it were a carnal need to have someone commanding us and, not to be underestimated, also someone to command, since often human discomfort arises precisely from this?" Okei, the answer is contained in Democracy in America by de Tocqueville. However, that is not for everyone... like Orwell. And it's better this way.

Let's put it this way: Hardcore (Hardcore is American) and let's not talk about it anymore.

Mediocre writer, which is why he is so appreciated.

Sometimes I'm wrong, but I strive to improve myself. However, sometimes while trying, I accidentally let out some farts. Does anyone have a lighter?

I am both an emo and a fool, but also a grunge and only on holidays a metalhead. I hold a black belt in karate and above all, I don't believe in God: I'm teetotal. Don't drink, just have pears!

Well, what are these parameters? Knowing that a book is written with words is a parameter? No, it’s just a factual reality. In taste, there are no parameters. If someone were to say that Cristiano Malgioglio is better than the Pixies, they would have every reason in the world from their point of view. Then you object about the melody and blah blah blah, about the drums and blah blah blah... but he simply prefers Malgioglio and that’s the only fact. Sure, you might think, rightly, that he understands nothing, but there’s nothing to understand... there’s only to feel. You evaluate based on your parameters, he will evaluate based on his, and both judgments will be perfectly consistent with their respective parameters. So where do we throw these parameters? Glass, paper, or plastic?

No. Some things shouldn't be taught. Teaching them means diminishing them. They should teach reading and writing, basic math, and everyone goes their own way. Baudelaire in high school? Come on, are we joking? Let them beat up the nerds, get high, and do other fun things.