“Ethnicity” is an anti-concept, used as a disguise for the word “racism” — and it has no clearly definable meaning. . . . The term “ethnicity” stresses the traditional, rather than the physiological characteristics of a group, such as language — but physiology, i.e., race, is involved . . . . So the advocacy of […]
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as […]
Advocates of determinism cannot escape this fundamental contradiction. They want to claim knowledge, but this requires them to make the choices needed to gain knowledge—yet determinism asserts that they cannot make actual choices. Determinists have to assume that they themselves are outside the deterministic nexus when reaching any conclusions; that they were free to make […]
Part of the context of any desire or value is the knowledge of what would be the long-range consequences of achieving it, what it would do to the total of your life. The concept of “Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die,” has one crucial flaw: we don’t die tomorrow. — Barbara Branden. Think […]
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