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“the whole process and state of alienation could be short-circuited by appealing to empathy, shared knowledge, and most people’s desire to talk about themselves.”
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
― And Then I Thought I Was a Fish
“When Mohammad Shah spoke, his face usually took on the expression of someone who has just taken a bite out of a lemon. At other times, in his more mellow moments, it was the expression of someone who had just stepped in shit.”
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
― Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India
“The critical race theorists and their allies have turned resentment into a governing principle. But this also a trap: resentment is a tool for obtaining power, not of wielding it successfully.”
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
“Just as blue is delicate and mysterious, yellow clear and unsubtle, and red sanguine and passionate, so he felt ulfire to be wild and painful, and jale dreamlike, feverish, and voluptuous.”
― A Voyage to Arcturus
― A Voyage to Arcturus
“{D]iversity, equity, and inclusion' represents a new mode of institutional governance. Diversity is the new system of racial standing, equity is the new method of power transfer, inclusion is the new method of enforcement. All of this could be presented to institutional leadership in a language that appears to be soft, benign, tolerant, and open-minded — something that, combined with the threat of accusation, elite administrators were culturally incapable of resisting.”
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
― America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
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