"The words are violence crowd is right about the power of language. Words can be vile, disgusting, offensive, and dehumanizing. They can make the speaker worthy of scorn, protest, and blistering criticism. But the difference between civilization and barbarism is that civilization responds to words with words. Not knives or guns or fire. That is the bright … Continue reading Ideological Amazon & Punk Nazis
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Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel (1978)
"Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them. As the repository of something suprapersonal and objective, it enables people to deceive their conscience and conceal their true position and … Continue reading Power of the Powerless, Vaclav Havel (1978)
Thinking Itself Is Dangerous – Los Angeles Review of Books
"Just as terror, even in its pre-total, merely tyrannical form ruins all relationships between men, so the self-compulsion of ideological thinking ruins all relationships with reality. The preparation has succeeded when people have lost contact with their fellow men as well as the reality around them, for together with these contacts, men lose the capacity … Continue reading Thinking Itself Is Dangerous – Los Angeles Review of Books
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