Sarah Holland
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Sarah Holland
George Washington went so far as to warn that “every possible evil” could be tied to gambling: “It is the child of avarice, the brother of inequity, and the father of mischief.”
“As the writer Will Wilkinson wrote in 2022, “Building a relatively accurate mental model of the world doesn’t have all that much to do with your individual reasoning capacity. It’s mostly about trusting and distrusting the right people.”
Gullible, Cynical America — The Atlantic
The cargo cult organization mass produces a personality type that uses “data” to flee from reality.
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The inherent danger of all bureaucratic organizations is the tendency to make the process the goal.
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The word functions to launder legitimacy from civilizational pillars to the political whims of any organization that employs more than five people
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progressive in the original sense, a reform ideology rooted in middle-class concerns for general social welfare in the wake of sweeping technological change
Max Read • Platform Temperance
This way of thinking is, of course, not only countercultural but downright heretical in our own era of blame-thirsty opinions ossified into identities — because understanding is a dynamic thing, evolving as it integrates and relates new information, it is the antithesis to the stasis of opinion and an antidote to it, a way of remembering that we... See more
Activist and former First Lady of the United States, Eleanor Roosevelt, on the path to growth:
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. ... You must do the thing you
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