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We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi,” she wrote. They were secure enough to be good natured and open to new ideas, and they believed so completely in the promise of American democracy that they would defend it with their lives, even if they seemed too easygoing to join a struggle. “But the frustrated and humiliated intellec
... See moreStephen Johnson • Speech Is Violence? Not if We Want a Liberal, Intellectual Society
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Mill held that truth emerges from an unfettered competition of ideas and that individual character is most improved when allowed to find its own way uncoerced. That vision was insufficient for 20th-century American liberalism.
Charles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
The Liberty/oppression foundation, I propose, evolved in response to the adaptive challenge of living in small groups with individuals who would, if given the chance, dominate, bully, and constrain others. The original triggers therefore include signs of attempted domination. Anything that suggests the aggressive, controlling behavior of an alpha m
... See moreJonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
