Our angry age
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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As long as there’s a perception of harm, there’s a potential for outrage, because fear and moral indignation are inextricably linked. Indeed, Gray argues, the safer we’ve become from physical danger, the more hazards we see lurking out there.
newyorker.com • Does One Emotion Rule All Our Ethical Judgments?
It may seem strange that people who have already attained a position of power through violence invest so much time in justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises... See more
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The Message
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The inherent danger of all bureaucratic organizations is the tendency to make the process the goal.
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All men are made for one another. Therefore, either teach them or tolerate them
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish biased and illogical people become when they disagree with you but if you think about moral reasoning is a skill we humans evolved to further our social agendas to justify her actions and defend the teams we belong to then
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The truth was he dreaded conflict: he only really knew how to be wounded.
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The Fraud
Zadie Smith
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The cargo cult organization mass produces a personality type that uses “data” to flee from reality.