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Chapter 12 It was the Western States Track-and-Field meet, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it had become one of the biggest high-school track events of the year. The 1600 meter run began at 3:00 in the afternoon. Jonas Hayat from Albuquerque, New Mexico, was the favorite, but there were other serious contenders as well, […]
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I’ve retitled and extensively rewritten Reservation Trash, which is now called Reservation Trash & The White Rose. The book is still a novella — 35,000 total words — but it’s 13,000 words longer than before, with five new chapters, and also a number of elaborations, as well as significant cuts. I sought to integrate it more […]
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Felix Randal the farrier, oh, is he dead then? my duty all ended, Who have watched his mould of man, big-boned and hardy-handsome Pining, pining, till time when reason rambled in it, and some Fatal four disorders, fleshed there, all contended? Sickness broke him. Impatient, he cursed at first, but mended Being anointed and all; […]
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January 27, 2021, to mark the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz — the Nazi German death camp, where some 1.1 million people, mostly Jewish, were killed during the war. Last year, Michigan Democrat Congresswoman Rashida Tlaiba — a proud antisemite and a totally uninformed and dogmatic critic of Israel — was correctly lambasted […]
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What Freedom Fosters (a small sampling) Chapter 39 The engine that powers civilization most fundamentally is not science or technology or currency — all of which are consequences and not causes — neither is it government nor God nor gods nor devils nor witches nor any other superstitious creation. The engine that powers civilization and […]
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You must watch the brief video clips below. You have to see this to believe it.None of this is about Donald Trump, and I am not a Trump fan. If you can watch this incredible footage and not see that it’s obviously staged — reader, something is very, very wrong indeed. [UPDATE: You need only […]
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UPDATE 2: This update should be properly placed under the “no shit” file, but since I got some blowback for my first update — from 2022 (see below) — I’ll make it explicit. In my original update, I said that legal proof of actual censorship “will come to light more and more.” It did. It’s old […]
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Chapter 36 The difference between dogma and doctrine is the difference between faith and thought. The extent to which an ideological system is taken on faith is the extent to which it is dogmatic. The extent to which an ideological system is by its leaders expected to be taken on faith is the extent […]
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Most human-beings don’t think too much about the great problems of existence, concerning which things, most humans behave as most around them behave. Most people perform certain daily acts without paying particular attention to their acts, neither to the ideological theories nor the hierarchical structures that undergird them. Most people do most things for no […]
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It was toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy. Their bread, their work, their private lives began to depend on this or that decision in disputes on […]
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Excerpted from my forthcoming: Chapter 4 Independent thought is critical thought – it is the critical faculty at its best: the faculty of identification, evaluation, discernment, grasping. Thought, in turn, is accomplished by means of language, which is precisely why the more you understand the words you’re using, the clearer and more streamlined […]
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Excerpted from Chapter 3 of my forthcoming. Chapter 3 Independent thinking is you, your car, and an auto-mechanic you don’t really know. Independent thinking is you taking your car in for a biannual tune-up, strictly routine. After handing the auto-mechanic your car keys and then waiting in the lobby for approximately five minutes, […]
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Excerpted from my forthcoming: Chapter 30 Since humans are each discrete, individuated beings, with a singular consciousness, born into a complex system of nature, humans are because of this infinitely diverse. This is a good thing, and it is a beautiful thing. This infinite diversity means, however, that humans are inherently unequal – in countless […]
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Excerpted from my forthcoming: Chapter 12 Tribalism is a form of collectivism, which is a philosophy that denies the primacy of the individual human-being and subordinates her to a so-named collective. Tribalism is the logical result and the logical elaboration of postmodernist irrational philosophy. Irrationalism is a school of philosophical thought, with a long and […]
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This is excerpted from Chapter 25 of my forthcoming. Chapter 25 Howard Zinn is the author of a cultic classic called A People’s History of the United States, which is a tour-de-force of historical misinformation, sloppy scholarship, and outright prevarications. This perhaps partially explains why on the subject of history and the role of the […]
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(c)Ray Harvey 2011