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“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”
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“when I call him a son of a bitch I am not using profanity, but am referring to the circumstances of his birth.”
― The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
― The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
“Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself.
Behold, I show you the last man. 'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?'—thus asks the last man, and he blinks.
The earth has become smaller, and on it hops the man who makes everything small...'We have invented happiness'—say the last men, and they blink.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Behold, I show you the last man. 'What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?'—thus asks the last man, and he blinks.
The earth has become smaller, and on it hops the man who makes everything small...'We have invented happiness'—say the last men, and they blink.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“You and I may go to Harvard, we may go to York of England, or go to Al Ahzar in Cairo and get degrees from all of these great seats of learning. But we will never be recognized until we recognize our women.”
― Message To The Blackman In America
― Message To The Blackman In America
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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