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How do we know what we think we know about the world? In this initial inquiry, we take up a set of questions that examine the ways in which people come to understand how the world works. This set of processes, usefully understood as the
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“The situation is hopeless; it is clear that there is no hope of finding a solution within the existing order. One has to gather the courage to openly accept this hopelessness and to then propose in its place a radical socio-economic change: a direct “politicization” (socialization) of the economy, with a much stronger role for the state and, simultaneously, much greater transparency of state apparatuses within civil society.”
― Heaven in Disorder
― Heaven in Disorder
“Our goal today should be more radical. As is becoming more and more clear from the ongoing crises (the Covid-19 pandemic, global warming and forest fires, and so on), the global capitalist order is reaching its limit, threatening to drag the whole of humanity into the abyss of self-destruction.”
― Heaven in Disorder
― Heaven in Disorder
“The challenges that we face, from global warming to refugees, digital control, and biogenetic manipulations, require nothing less than a global reorganization of our societies. Whichever way this happens, two things are sure: it will not be enacted by some new version of a Leninist communist party, but it will also not happen as part of our parliamentary democracy. It will not be just a political party winning more votes and enacting social democratic measures.”
― Heaven in Disorder
― Heaven in Disorder
“The path to true change opens only when we lose hope in a change within the system.”
― Heaven in Disorder
― Heaven in Disorder
“Today, the situation is not one in which heaven is divided into two spheres, as was the case in the Cold War period when two global worldviews confronted each other. The divisions of heaven today appear increasingly drawn within each particular country. In the United States, for instance, there is an ideological and political civil war between the alt-Right and the liberal-democratic establishment, while in the United Kingdom there are similarly deep divisions, as were recently expressed in the opposition between Brexiteers and anti-Brexiteers . . . Spaces for common ground are ever diminishing, mirroring the ongoing enclosure of physical public space, and this is happening at a time when multiple intersecting crises mean that global solidarity and international cooperation are more needed than ever.”
― Heaven in Disorder
― Heaven in Disorder
The Atheist Book Club
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In these gilded halls we shall discuss the presence of the atheistic viewpoint in the written form. Are you a fan of Douglas Adams' scientific view of ...more
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