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H.M.’s 2025 Year in Books
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H.M. Forester
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in Yorkshire, The United Kingdom
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Idries Shah; Doris Lessing; Robert Ornstein; James Hilton's Lost Horiz
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April 2012
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https://www.goodreads.com/erictwose
Mystical Faction blog at Vivaldi
I've just begun a Vivaldi community blog, and aim to reduce my dependence on US-based providers. Vivaldi's blogs, which can be linked to Vivaldi Social (part of Mastodon and the Fediverse) are based in Iceland. And unlike Blogger/Blogspot, Google is actually indexing the Vivaldi blogs.
It's a mixture of my sci-fi and mystical faction, and, due to ongoing crises, politics and society.
You can find th Read more of this blog post »
It's a mixture of my sci-fi and mystical faction, and, due to ongoing crises, politics and society.
You can find th Read more of this blog post »
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The New Right is indeed, with very few exceptions, anti-immigration. It stands against free trade and globalism. And it represents a turn against the neoconservative interventionism in foreign affairs that characterized the first part of the twenty-first century. But if those are the ribs of the New Right’s politics, Anton’s formulation hides the spine, which is a staunch social traditionalism and rejection of liberal pluralism and egalitarianism; in other words, the various New Right policy prongs are organized around a traditionalist (usually white, Christian, and patriarchal) social vision
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The story is one of ideological radicalization—the mutually reinforcing radicalization of intellectuals, politicians, and the movement they led. The men of the New Right saw Trump as a major opportunity; they egged him and his supporters on, and they brought others into the fold. They saw that he shared some of their extremist, old-school conservative views, and they appreciated that he would use whatever means necessary—including unconstitutional means—to gain and exert power. They are people who sought to leverage real problems, as well as known vulnerabilities of liberalism, to impose their
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In short order, the conservative intellectualism I thought I knew had all but vanished from the discourse that dominated the Republican Party. Champions of the US Constitution, and of originalism, were now sympathetic to a man who obviously cared very little for constitutional niceties and was eventually willing to throw the entire electoral system—the foundation of American government—into chaos for his own power. People who excelled at the identification of demagogues and would-be tyrants—who had railed against Barack Obama for his rhetorical excesses and overweening message of “hope and
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The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power:
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I’m finally done with this thing. And I’m finally getting around to this review. OK. This is a really sprawling book. And most of it is worth engaging. At its core, The Guru Papers is about systems of authoritarian power. I don’t think that was where" Read more of this review » |
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“There are universal laws at work, even here. The Law of Attraction; the Law of Correspondence; and the Law of Karma. That is: like attracts like; as within, so without; and what goes around comes around.”
― Game of Aeons
― Game of Aeons
“There is no such thing as 'just one last cigarette' – except the last cigarette that you've already had.”
― Game of Aeons
― Game of Aeons
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| Author | 1 | 2 | May 18, 2012 06:26AM | |
| Other books by the same author | 1 | 3 | May 18, 2012 06:39AM | |
| Goodreads Librari...: Duplicated Goodreads author with same ID 5818501 ... | 6 | 16 | Aug 20, 2024 07:15AM |
“There was a great joke that was forever doing the rounds in the jail and it was probably funny not because it had a humorous punchline but because it was so very true at a deep psychological level. Put anyone in that jail and soon enough they'd actually become a cruel, twisted, sadistic and heartless thug. And some of the prisoners were just as bad.”
― The Dissidents
― The Dissidents
“All you had to do was crack up and beg to see the Governor; grovel at his feet and admit to being a dissident; heartily repent your sins, and volunteer for elective brain surgery.”
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― The Dissidents
“Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.”
― The Dissidents
― The Dissidents
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C.J. HeckHello Eric!
It's such a pleasure to also connect with you here on Goodreads. I look forward to reading your work! Thank you and best wishes to you.
My warmest regards,
CJ
Hello Eric!
It's such a pleasure to also connect with you here on Goodreads. I look forward to reading your work! Thank you and best wishes to you.
My warmest ..."
Hi C.J., Many thanks to you. It is indeed a pleasure to connect with fellow writers and readers.