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To sum up our contention so far, we may say that the most characteristic current philosophies have not only a touch of mania, but a touch of suicidal mania. The mere questioner has knocked his head against the limits of human thought; and cracked it.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
A man’s soul is as full of voices as a forest; there are ten thousand tongues there like all the tongues of the trees: fancies, follies, memories, madnesses, mysterious fears, and more mysterious hopes. All the settlement and sane government of life consists in coming to the conclusion that some of those voices have authority and others not.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Francois has shown good interpretation and judgment in the past.
The end times are the zenith of totalitarianism, whether from private or state sources, since only one source or power is recognized and only one source actually functions. As of today, the state is largely a fiction as banks and media conglomerates rule without mercy.
https://theorthodoxnationalist.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-end.pdf
(Matthew Rafael Johnson)
A modern writer who I think possesses a similar level and flavor of wit is Leif Enger. I have only read Peace Like a River but I’m excited to read his other works, too.
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Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and for X
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Yes, everything’s hopeless, but we are the slaves of hope”
‘this is indeed a meeting which is calculated to impress the mind with a sense of the instability and uncertainty of all human—in short, it is a most extraordinary meeting.
Charles Dickens • David Copperfield
From AI Safety to Cognitive Safety in the Classroom…
The recent New York Times article on “AI mirroring” (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/technology/ai-chatbots-delusions-chatgpt.html )warns of a troubling phenomenon: chatbots, by echoing a user’s own language and assumptions, can unwittingly reinforce false beliefs. In vulnerable individuals,
... See moreFor definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight; and they fight fair.