And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
File clerks working at their electric elevator desks in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, 1937.
NO BATHROOM BREAK FOR YOU PLEEB!
ReplyDeleteIs this that famous innovative office building where the entire executive suite was an elevator, so the CEO could visit any floor of his choice?
ReplyDeleteClose; the building you're thinking of is in Zlín, the Baťa Skyscraper. For those who don't know: https://youtu.be/1yfX84RMQ3M?si=OJyb38C1uGJo2uim
Delete“All organized on the Sudetenland front.” Or,
ReplyDelete“The filed before the storm.”
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Reminds me of Jonathan Pryce in the movie Brazil.
ReplyDeleteLooks like it was inspired by Kafka, who was probably rolling in his grave!
ReplyDeletePalantir, in a year or so after it compiles all the 4-11 on US citizens
ReplyDeleteHmmm. Commuting at work.
ReplyDeleteWinston Smith at work
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the Stasi had a facility like this in Berlin. "The Lives of Others" is a hell of a movie.
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