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*Far right backlash via Helen Dale - by a right guy who is scared how far right it will swing [https://youtu.be/UuuDjqNyxyw] | *Far right backlash via Helen Dale - by a right guy who is scared how far right it will swing [https://youtu.be/UuuDjqNyxyw] | ||
*Gossip at scale [https://arnoldkling.substack.com/p/on-feminism] | |||
Revision as of 01:37, 8 May 2023
https://erikhoel.substack.com/p/the-gossip-trap
- Eleanor Roosevelt -Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
- So then what is civilization? It is a superstructure that levels leveling mechanisms, freeing us from the gossip trap.
- As William Faulkner said, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
- MJ comment -The solution for this morasse is the art of possibility. Yes, we have a past. Yes, we have a choice of where to go in the future. Worries about the future are what keeps us stuck in a bucket of crabs. But people love being down in the bucket. They would also love to climb out. Ultimately It's our choice.
Via Helen Dale
- In the absence of reality-testing, bullshit wins Davos and the World Economic Forum are, of course, the pinnacle of moral-signalling bullshit -[1]