When we said we had no money for a room and that our motorcycle was being repaired, his demeanor changed. It was clear he had an opinion about motorcycles and motorcycle riders, and there was nothing two Quaker boys on a Honda could do to
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“The German philosophical tradition that so deeply informed the outlook of American reformers and intellectuals such as John Dewey and Theodore Roosevelt has in our era split into mutually hostile progressive and nationalist camps that are, in these illiterate times, incapable of understanding the significance of their common intellectual patrimony. But the fact that the lame pudwhackers marching around Portland in black masks and carrying tiki-torches through Charlotte are too bone-deep stupid to appreciate this doesn’t mean that you, dear reader, must choose to be as well.”
― The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
― The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
“The masses never hard it so good. This is the golden age of Homo bolus. But the masses are not happy. They are miserable. They are masses; misery is what they do. It does not matter whether they have anything to be miserable about. If they want something to make them feel miserable, they will discover or invent it.”
― The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
― The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics
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