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“Propaganda may be defined as opposed to rational argument; argument based upon facts. Argument based on facts aims at producing an intellectual conviction; propaganda aims, above all, at producing reflex action. It is aimed at bypassing the rational choice based upon knowledge of facts and getting directly at the solar plexus, so to speak, and affecting the subconscious.”
― Aldous Huxley, Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

tags: borrego, chavism, communism, correismo, fascism, idioticy, nazism, parasitic-ideology, politics, propaganda

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“Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social media platforms incentivize and facilitate relational aggression. Their openness and willingness to share emotions with other girls espouses them to depression and other disorders. The twisted incentive structures of social media reward the most extreme presentations of symptoms.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

tags: adulthood, competition, critic, eating-disorders, evolutionary-psychology, perfect-body, sex, social-media, women

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“What's the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read in a lifetime. The learner is not taught, but burdened by the sheer volume, and it's better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many.”
― Seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

tags: education, inspirational, philosophy, reading, stoicismism

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“Meum est propositum in taberna mori,
Ut sint vina proxima morienta ori,
Tunc cantabunt letius angelorum chori:
"Sit Deus propitius huic potatori.”
― Hugh

tags: the-confessions-of-golias

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“Collective guilt, the damaging impact of cultural appropriation, our servility to amorphous power structures, the primacy of identity politics; all of these concepts and more are now uncritically accepted by many of those in positions of authority. When politicians use phrases such as 'white privilege' and 'systemic racism', for instance, they are deploying the language of Critical Race Theory without necessarily understanding the full implications of the ideas behind the buzzwords. They are the unsuspecting agents of applied postmodernism.”
― Andrew Doyle, The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World