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"I should have finished this book a long time ago. I'm glad I reopened it and got my pen out...." — Dec 15, 2018 02:30PM
"I should have finished this book a long time ago. I'm glad I reopened it and got my pen out...." — Dec 15, 2018 02:30PM
Americans long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as not to be disconcerting. This place is called Disney World. The French dream of a place where
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“We have grown addicted to our high salaries, and now we are really going to have to earn them,” the CEO said.”
― The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
― The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
“We are being offered a psychopathic and psychotic moral attitude… it is psychopathic because this is a total detachment from the, from the well-being of human beings. It, this so easily rationalizes the slaughter of children. Ok, just think about the Muslims at this moment who are blowing themselves up, convinced that they are agents of God’s will. There is absolutely nothing that Dr. Craig can s—can say against their behavior, in moral terms, apart from his own faith-based claim that they’re praying to the wrong God. If they had the right God, what they were doing would be good, on Divine Command theory.
Now, I’m obviously not saying that all that Dr. Craig, or all religious people, are psychopaths and psychotics, but this to me is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.”
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Now, I’m obviously not saying that all that Dr. Craig, or all religious people, are psychopaths and psychotics, but this to me is the true horror of religion. It allows perfectly decent and sane people to believe by the billions, what only lunatics could believe on their own.”
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“On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world’s GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars.”
― The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
― The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
“Girls, when I was growing up, my parents used to say to me, ‘Tom, finish your dinner—people in China and India are starving.’ My advice to you is: Girls, finish your homework—people in China and India are starving for your jobs.” And in a flat world, they can have them, because in a flat world there is no such thing as an American job. There is just a job, and in more cases than ever before it will go to the best, smartest, most productive, or cheapest worker—wherever he or she resides.”
― The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
― The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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