Tweedledum and …
Communism and Capitalism are two apparently different mechanisms for ensuring that the same kinds of people gain power in society.
politics
Down down, IQ is down
After seventy-odd (and seventy odd) years of life I keep thinking I have seen and heard all the worst of human stupidity. But then I read something said by a woman in a red cap, or a crackpot fundamentalist (of any religion), or a loopy flat earther, or a mad-brained creationist, or a Dunning-Kruger climate
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Back to front
So it is blasphemous to “insult” an imaginary being that doesn’t exist, but it isn’t blasphemous to attack science, rationality, and the real world?
Make a list
When fascists gain power there first instinct is to destroy the environment – boost coal burning, get rid of national parks and conservation measures cut down the Amazon jungle. That will show the World who’s boss.
Harder than the common cold
If religion was purely a matter of individual private belief it could be just dumped in with all the other irrational thought patterns that so bedevil Homo sapiens (and presumably sapiens ancestors, though the other apes seem to be purely rational), a curiosity for psychological investigation perhaps. The problem is that one essential part of
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Hubris
How messed up would your mind have to be to write a book telling other people how to live their lives?
Not restful
If Sunday is the day of rest why do so many people spend it talking to an imaginary friend, worrying about an imaginary afterlife, and whipping themselves into a frenzy thinking of someone, somewhere, is having fun?
Allons enfants
Throughout history, and over most of the world, societies have been divided into left and right, poor and rich, workers and bosses, globalists and nationalists, humanists and racists, atheists and the religious, thinkers and followers, socialists and fascists. The important thing for all of us is to decide early what side we are on.
And we are well on our way
All over the universe, planets capable of supporting life will have evolved intelligent organisms. All over the universe those organisms will have invented systems of living that enable a small number of them to gain a very large share of the resources of the planet. All over the universe those systems will develop patterns of
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