"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place. .. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself -- anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face .. was itself a punishable offence. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called."
Ah, donāt be so naive! We both know they just wanted to hack the FB discussion algorithm and play into the polarization game based on 40+ P&G studies according to which short-term brand attitudes absolutely donāt matter at all. āAny PR is good PRā-type deal. āFuck it, letās run with it,ā ... āYeah, there might be a temporary drop, but theyāll forget after one week and just remember Gillette,ā ...
āThe men whom the people ought to choose to represent them are too busy to take the jobs. But the politician is waiting for it. Heās the pestilence of modern times. What we should try to do is make politics as local as possible. Keep the politicians near enough to kick them. The villagers who met under the village tree could also hang their politicians to the tree. It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.ā
It is common to say that the gay agenda is a refinement of Marxist praxis. There is some truth in this, but Del Noce points out Reich believed Americaās consumer society offered more fertile ground for his sexual revolution than the USSR ever did. Reich replaced the class struggle with a struggle against repression. This meant, in practice, that complete sexual fulfilment and happiness was not inconsistent with economic inequality
@temporaryDouchebag If you're interested in hearing his ideas first hand, this is one of his more recent lectures on his newest book The 7 Types of Atheism. In it he also talks about his ideas on progress and talks about Peterson in the Q&A session at the end saying "we should definetly take him seriously."
Maduro also claimed that the Chinese government and banks are fully behind the series ofĀ economic reformsĀ recently introduced under his post-electoral āProgram of Economic Recuperation, Growth, and Prosperity.ā
For his part, the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang explained that his nation is looking to help Venezuela achieve economic stability.
"To say there is only a single answer might be an overstatementāstress, smoking, and obesity, for example, all depress sperm countsābut there are fewer and fewer critics of the following theory: The industrial revolution happened. And the oil industry happened. And 20th-century chemistry happened. In short, humans started ingesting a whole host of compounds that affected our hormonesāincluding, most crucially, estrogen and testosterone."
Weāve known about these side effects for decades.
In the 40's-60's pregnant women sometimes took norethindrone in large doses to help prevent miscarriage. But it also caused some unsettling changes to their bodies.
The women were sweatier, hairier and spottier. Some noticed that their voices had deepened. NearlyĀ one in five baby girlsĀ born to mothers taking it had masculinised genitals. Some of these unlucky childrenĀ required surgery.
Mr. Rhodes describes [the U.N. Human Rights Council] as ācontrolledā by āIslamic theocraciesā and āheavily under the influence of China.ā Those unfree countries āare forming a human-rights vision of their own,ā he says. āItās human rights without freedom. Itās human rights based on economic and social rights, where freedoms are restricted in the interest of āpeaceā and āstabilityā and powerātheir power.ā
Just as Jerry Lewis was seen as a genius in France, Trump, is seen as a master tactician in China!
In Chinese eyes, Trumpās response is a form of creative destruction. He's systematically destroying the existing institutions āfrom the World Trade Organization and the North American Free Trade Agreement to Nato and the Iran nuclear dealā as a first step towards renegotiating the world order on terms more favourable to the US.
"[T]he contempt for liberal democracy is growing, regardless of who wins or loses particular elections..While longing for 'a strong leader who doesnāt have to bother with parliament and elections' is also on the rise, esteem for democracy declines,Ā especially among rich millennialsāthe very people who will inherit this crisis."
"As OāGorman puts it, āWe may be terrified of dementia because it is widespread and its effects catastrophic. But the fear arises also because we are half-conscious, as dutiful forward-facing citizens of modernity, that we figuratively have it already.ā Rather than enabling human beings to fashion new identities, a willed collective amnesia leaves them with no identity at all."
"What greater indictment of a system could there be than an epidemic of mental illness? Yet plagues of anxiety, stress, depression, social phobia, eating disorders, self-harm and loneliness now strike people down all over the world. The latest, catastrophic figures for childrenās mental health in England reflect a global crisis."
"You wonder why the modern hipster-liberal lives a life of misery? He lives a life of nihilism, albeit ADD-riddled nihilism where the next kombucha-bar, the next Lebanese-Chilean fusion foodtruck, and the next meaningful Parts Unknown episode dull the deep pain that comes from mortality in life and the lack of having anything remotely constituting a meaningful life, much less afterlife."
"In seeking a society of pure mercy, without trolling, without insults, without any inequality, violence, or biased behavior of any kind, progressives inadvertently created their worst nightmare. They tried to suppress the collective shadow of humankind through moral policing and public shaming, and instead only begat a growing animosity directed at the cathedral of their false dogmas."