“The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative machinery out of men, and thus to dehumanize them. And one can debate long and profitably on the rule of Nobody, which is what the political form known as bureau-cracy truly is….we have become very much accustomed by modern psychology and sociology, not to speak of modern bureaucracy, to explaining away the responsibility of the doer for his deed in terms of this or that kind of determinism.”

― Hannah Arendt

1561 Jacopo Peri, Italian composer and singer who wrote the 1st recognized opera “Dafne”. L’Euridice, Prologo “La Tragedia” e Coro “Se de’ boschi”

1720 Bernard de Bury, French musician and composer. Chaconne, and Seconde Suite: Sarabande La Prude

1827 Josef Strauss, Austrian composer. Feuerfest (Polka francaise, op. 269)

1890 H. P. Lovecraft, American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.

1935 Ron Paul, American physician, author and elected representative.

MISCELLANY:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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