Mark Connely

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“The cosmos stands amazed at just how dumb Planet Dumb is. With an uncanny talent for error, humanity has at every crossroads taken the wrong path. Humanity is the species guaranteed to choose wrongly. What else would you expect in a Dunning-Kruger world? Ignorance reigns supreme. Everyone is part of the Dumbageddon Conspiracy.”
― Ranty McRanterson, Full Retard: The Dumbest Just Got Dumber

tags: anti-intellectualism, dumb, dumbass, dumbing-down, dunning-kruger, idiocracy, retard

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“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.” Why is the Buddha much more popular than Descartes? Because the average person barely thinks at all.”
― Thomas Stark, The Sheldrake Shift: A Critical Evaluation of Morphic Resonance

tags: anti-intellectualism, buddhism, descartes, i-think, meditation, mindfulness, mindlessness, philosophy, rationalism, therefore-i-am

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“Here, I believe, was mercy; and, lying very close to it, the root of the novelist’s art. The novel’s structure is a structure of suggnômê—of the penetration of the life of another into one’s own imagination and heart. It is a form of imaginative and emotional receptivity, in which the reader, following the author’s lead, comes to be inhabited by the tangled complexities and struggles of other concrete lives.54 Novels do not withhold all moral judgment, and they contain villains as well as heroes. But for any character with whom the form invites our participatory identification, the motives for mercy are engendered in the structure of literary perception itself. VII.”
― Martha C. Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice

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“To some people independent though is heresy and critical thought blasphemy”
― rassool jibraeel snyman

tags: critical-pedagogy, critical-philosophy, independence, independent-thinkers, independent-thinking, independent-thought, independent-zen, individuality, lateral-thinking

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“Necessary features of the human mind impose structure upon our experiences. Language acts as a gatekeeper for the mind. We learn and embark on personal transformation by formulating, revising, and refining our conception of the world each time that we encounter new facts, experiences, ideas, and viewpoints. To understand the world a person must employ reason and organize their episodic personal experiences into a system of narrative thought. The language that we employ to internalize our personal experiences constructs our mental system, and our mental thoughts in turn regulate us. We become of a personification of our language, as expressed in narrative stories of the self.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls