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“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire”
― Gustav Mahler

“But how could self-proclaimed “anti-racists” and their supporters be as confused as I’ve made them out to be? And why do so many people continue to be fooled by the “anti-racist” label? The answer: theirs is the latest brand of bigotry to gain social approval in America, and that social approval acts as a buffer that insulates their views from scrutiny.”
― Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

“A real friendship ought to introduce each person to unexpected weirdness in the other.”
― Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget

“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”
― Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies