“after 1917, was not that Marx and Lenin had discovered an immutable law of history driven by ever-intensifying “class struggle,” but that Lenin had shown how Communist revolutionaries could exploit the devastation of war to seize power by force—if the devastation was severe enough, and if they armed enough fanatics and foot soldiers to prevail over their opponents.”
― To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
― To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
“We humans have cooperative, selfless and loving moral instincts, the voice or expression of which we call our conscience—which is the complete opposite of competitive, selfish and aggressive instincts. As Charles Darwin said, "The moral sense… affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals.”
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End of the Human Condition
“Bonobos provide the perfect evidence for how our distant ape ancestors became cooperative and loving.”
― THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!
― THE Interview That Solves The Human Condition And Saves The World!
“The World Transformation Movement is the disseminator of this psychologically relieving and transforming, Instinct vs Intellect, ‘holy grail of insight’ explanation of the human condition—the insight humanity has tirelessly worked toward, yearned for, and now so desperately needs!”
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
― The Human Condition: What exactly is it, what caused it, and how the human race has finally liberated itself from the horror of it.
“Essentially, what has happened is that humans have become so habituated to living in Plato’s dark cave of denial that when finally given the means to exit the cave and stand in the warm, healing sunshine of self-understanding,”
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
― FREEDOM: The End Of The Human Condition
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