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“just tried typing “why do men” into the address bar of Google Search, and the auto-complete function immediately suggested the following: “cheat?”, “rape?”, “have nipples?” presumably calculating that these are my three most likely questions! Searching for the phrase “why do men cheat?” in quotes, returns well over a million entries, more than twice the number that I get for the phrase “why do men work?”, suggesting that Google thinks that cheating is twice as popular as work, at least for men!”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature

“The process of formal education in universities typically consists of listening to spoken text in lectures, and reading written text, as typified by the phrase “to read for a degree” in law for example. The use of this phrase implies that the study of written text has been considered an efficient and effective strategy for learning.”
― Richard Epworth, Bottleneck - Our human interface with reality: The disturbing and exciting implications of its true nature

“The World Health Organization’s 1995 definition of privatisation within healthcare is ‘a … process in which non-government actors become increasingly involved in the financing and/or provision of health care services’.38 And this is exactly what is happening in the NHS.”
― Dr Julia Grace Patterson, Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it

“Politicians have found it too easy to make empty promises. Margaret Thatcher claimed that ‘the NHS is safe in our hands’43 before creating an internal marketplace within the service. Tony Blair’s election manifesto in 1997 claimed that only Labour could ‘save the NHS’,44 and he then proceeded to enable many of the PFI projects that burden the NHS with billions of pounds of debt repayment every single year. And David Cameron, not to be outdone, declared in his first speech following the General Election in 2015 that the NHS ‘will be safe in his hands “for every generation to come”’.45 And while politicians have evaded proper scrutiny, dismissing concerns and making empty statements, their real work happens behind the scenes.”
― Dr Julia Grace Patterson, Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it