Joe Bellofatto:
CLASS OF 1976
Laurel High SchoolClass of 1976
Laurel, MD
Joe's Story
Joe is from Laurel, Maryland. Joe's schools include Laurel High School.
Music Joe likes includes Marti Jones and Don Dixon, The Rainmakers, Classical. Books Joe likes include Man, The Fatal Conceit, The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Movies Joe likes include The Girl With the Pearl Earring, Blade Runner, North by Northwest. TV shows Joe likes include Game of Thrones, Hbo's John Adams Miniseries, Lost.
One of Joe's favorite quotes is:""The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange." - Joseph Campbell
The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's mind. He can imagine and even esteem, in his way, certain false forms of liberty - for example, the right to choose between two political mountebanks, and to yell for the more obviously dishonest - but the reality is incomprehensible to him. And no wonder, for genuine liberty demands of its votaries a quality he lacks completely, and that is courage. The man who loves it must be willing to fight for it; blood, said Jefferson, is its natural manure. More, h...Expand for more
e must be able to endure it - an even more arduous business. Liberty means self-reliance, it means resolution, it means the capacity for doing without. - H.L. Mencken
âTo be governed is to be watched, inspected, directed, indoctrinated, numbered, estimated, regulated, commanded, controlled, law-driven, preached at, spied upon, censured, checked, valued, enrolled, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be, at every operation and at every transaction, taxed, stamped, registered, numbered, counted, noted, measured, assessed, authorized, licensed, admonished, prevented, forbidden, corrected, reformed, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, fleeced, drilled, extorted from, exploited, monopolized, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at slightest resistance and first word of complaint, to be sacrificed, betrayed, harassed, repressed, disarmed, hunted down, clubbed, abused, fined, sold, and, to crown it all, to be outraged, ridiculed, mocked, derided, dishonored. THAT is government; that is its justice, that's its morality.â - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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