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Religiously Blonde • The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State
Social Darwinism and neo-liberal meritocracy create the impression that they favour the individual who is naturally the best. He or she would have made it anyway; we are just giving nature a helping hand to speed the ‘fittest’ up the ladder. But the reality is somewhat different. Both social Darwinists and meritocratists themselves determine who is
... See morePaul Verhaeghe • What About Me?: The Struggle for Identity in a Market-Based Society
Victor Turner studied the role of ritual in indigenous societies, particularly rites of passage. Those rites signaled periods of transition, as between childhood and adulthood. They were dangerous periods during which previous statuses and relationships were suspended. The “structure” of society was eliminated temporarily, and those periods are lab
... See moreGeorge P. Hansen • The Trickster and the Paranormal
We’ve been positioned as the ‘other’, only taking centre stage to portray subjugation or provide comic relief. White people are so used to seeing a reflection of themselves in all representations of humanity at all times, that they only notice it when it’s taken away from them.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
When whiteness and wealth are posed as the norm, a kind of force field of aesthetics and ideology keeps out anyone…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
‘narcissism of minor differences’, and he said its root lay in the aggressiveness which civilisation had insisted we must sacrifice for the sake of the advantages it offered, but which was always there inside us, crouching below the surface, waiting for the occasion of its violent release.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
