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"TIME AND ATTENTION
Data on public's newspaper reading habits, could be biased towards what is considered "cultured". Tastes of newspaper readers still largely conform to tastes of newspaper editors.
SPEED, WORDS, AND CLEARNESS
How news items are filtered from speech to telegraph to interpretation by editors and journalists. Forwarding its meaning to the masses unbiased is impossible." — Dec 06, 2025 05:10AM
"TIME AND ATTENTION
Data on public's newspaper reading habits, could be biased towards what is considered "cultured". Tastes of newspaper readers still largely conform to tastes of newspaper editors.
SPEED, WORDS, AND CLEARNESS
How news items are filtered from speech to telegraph to interpretation by editors and journalists. Forwarding its meaning to the masses unbiased is impossible." — Dec 06, 2025 05:10AM
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"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
"Summary
For families of theories of Power
Two theories of sovereignty - justify Power by right, by God or by the people, center of command. Nominalist, allergic to absorption of man. Divine Right implies immutable law, others make law mutable.
Organic theories - justify Power by its end, moral and material cohesion of society, a zone of light or an organ
Theories start hostile to Power and end up helping it." — Mar 28, 2024 12:30AM
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"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
"Why did Truman reject an approach many thought was likely to end the war?
Imperial cult - unconditional surrender directly threatened the emperor
Origins of unconditional surrender terminology - Casablanca 1943
Surrender needs imperial sanction
Truman gives more carefully worded speech on May 8
Navy Captain Ellis Zacharias - presidential statement explaining unconditional surrender - Forrestal and Leahy approve." — Jul 31, 2023 06:19AM
“Emergencies” have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have eroded.”
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“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
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“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.”
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“Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
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“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.”
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