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""For example, wide reflective equilibrium would reveal internal tensions and conflicts sustained by our particular American version of democracy-cum-capitalism that is built upon the maintenance of inequalities and injustices perpetrated under the guise of certain conservative conceptions of democratic freedom."" — Apr 13, 2014 08:15PM
""For example, wide reflective equilibrium would reveal internal tensions and conflicts sustained by our particular American version of democracy-cum-capitalism that is built upon the maintenance of inequalities and injustices perpetrated under the guise of certain conservative conceptions of democratic freedom."" — Apr 13, 2014 08:15PM
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
― 1984
― 1984
“Live by the harmless untruths that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy.”
― Cat’s Cradle
― Cat’s Cradle
“Cheats prosper until there are enough who bear grudges against them to make sure they do not prosper.”
― The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
― The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology
“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34." Fat asked what that was. It turned out that Sherri had read a book on Russion armor during World War Two. The T-34 tank had been the Soviet Union's salvation and thereby the salvation of all the Allied Powers- and, by extension, Horselover Fat's, since without the T-34 he would be speaking - not english or Latin or the koine - but German.”
― VALIS
― VALIS
“Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenets of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand years, have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them.”
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