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“while America, for its part, proved singularly unreceptive to the socialist-realist principle that undergirds them all: the principle that art can, or even must, have a message; and that such art-with-a-message, which will always be dismissed as propaganda, is in fact the only available corrective to the real and actual propaganda of entrenched official power.”
― The Oppermanns
― The Oppermanns
“There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.”
― The Oppermanns
― The Oppermanns
“It was all a hyperinflated display of presumed expertise on the part of men who were not experts, preaching the lessons of a science that was not science, justifying prejudices that were too ugly to be acknowledged.”
― The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
― The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
“There was no question but that the Nationalists had carried out their program point by point, that program at whose primitive barbarism people had so often smiled.”
― The Oppermanns
― The Oppermanns
“It struck me that almost any of the companies I’d heard about would be good fodder for an investigative story. But the thought of methodically gathering facts to disprove their ridiculous promises was exhausting. It reminded me of a maxim called the “bullshit asymmetry principle,” coined by an Italian programmer. He was describing the challenge of debunking falsehoods in the internet age. “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it,” the programmer, Alberto Brandolini, wrote in 2013.”
― Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
― Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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