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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

my-ear-trumpet: (Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev “Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

my-ear-trumpet:

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Source: madmonarchist.blogspot.com.au, via growthofthesoil)

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev “Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Alexander Makovsky’s portrait of Konstantin Pobedonostsev)

The Mad Monarchist | Monarchist Profile: Konstantin Pobedonostsev

“Elections are merely an art with its own strategy and tactics, like the art of war. The crowd listens to whoever shouts loudest and who is best at pretending through banality and flattery to suit the concepts and inclinations popular in the masses. In theory, the voter gives his vote to the candidate because he knows him and trusts him, whereas in practice…he does not know him at all, but the voter is told about him in speeches and shouts from the interested party.”

(Source: madmonarchist.blogspot.com.au)

"We enemies of universal suffrage never cease to be surprised by the enthusiasm aroused by the election of a handful of incapable men by a heap of incompetent men."

— Don Colacho (Nicolás Gómez Dávila) (via isensualist)

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"Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.” - Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn"

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (via isensualist)

(Source: , via gloriesofthewest)

judaizers: Women! Take Part in the Elections to the Soviets! Uzbek-language poster published in Tashkent, 1920s. The ghostly visage of the Soviet Woman gradually materializes behind the veil as the Communist calls her to action.  This reminds me that Queensland State and local council elections are coming up soon.

judaizers:

Women! Take Part in the Elections to the Soviets!

Uzbek-language poster published in Tashkent, 1920s. The ghostly visage of the Soviet Woman gradually materializes behind the veil as the Communist calls her to action. 

This reminds me that Queensland State and local council elections are coming up soon.

(Source: savage-america)