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John M. Perkins • One Blood: Parting Words to the Church on Race and Love
Megan Fritts • A Matter of Words
The Enlightenment Trap
Michael Brown • Alchemy of the Heart
Jordan Hall • The Game of Thrones | Deep Code Experiment: Episode 4
But the answer “black” immediately carries a heavy load, and a number of potentially violent actions—that would have been unlikely otherwise—suddenly become psychologically possible. You don’t just lecture or book this type of body or take it down to the station. It would have no respect for you if you did that—after all, it is more than used to
... See moreZadie Smith • Intimations: Six Essays
Human Being in an Inhuman Age
When human beings first developed the capacity to walk and run it was either to chase after something or to escape something. That energy of chasing and running is deeply ingrained in every cell of our body. But today there is no longer the same need to hunt, fight, or escape from danger, and yet we still walk with that kind of energy. We have
... See moreThich Nhat Hanh • The Art of Living: Peace and Freedom in the Here and Now
I found it was their daily taunt against Christianity that it was the light of one people and had left all others to die in the dark. But I also found that it was their special boast for themselves that science and progress were the discovery of one people, and that all other peoples had died in the dark.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
As great as civilization may be, 500 generations isn’t enough time for evolution to take a shit. So now we’re all here living in this fancy new habitat, using brain software optimized to our old habitat.