Monday, August 18, 2025

Today -100: August 18, 1925: Mass cannot govern mass


Anti-Semites attack the Freiheit Platz in Vienna where the 14th World Zionist Congress has convened. The police are holding them back.

Mussolini tells the Daily Press, “mass cannot govern mass; quantity cannot govern quantity.” Also, “there can be no such thing as liberty, which exists but in the imagination of philosophers who seek their unpractical philosophy from the skies... Is there such a thing as liberty? Civilization is the inverse of personal liberty.”  Also, too, “Julius Caesar is my ideal”.

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A couple of days ago a leopard escaped the Paris zoological gardens into the Bois de Boulogne, “rendering its beautiful nooks and paths unsuitable to lovers for moonlight strolls.” Cops pursue her on horses, bicycles and elephants, as was the custom. The leopard’s name is Zizi, because of course it is.

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2 comments:

  1. This attack on the Zionist conference mystifies me. Since Zionism is a movement to settle Jews in Palestine, and the anti-Zionists are crying "Clear out the Jews!", you would think these protesters would promote Zionism, not attack it. This of course begs the question why the antipathy to Jews who had been living in Austria and Germany for hundreds of years, and I assume were drafted into the army in WWI.

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  2. Well, anti-Semites are not generally known for their logic or sense of irony, attributes they consider, you know, a little Jew-y.

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