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Publicity has another important social function. The fact that this function has not been planned as a purpose by those who make and use publicity in no way lessens its significance. Publicity turns consumption into a substitute for democracy. The choice of what one eats (or wears or drives) takes the place of significant political choice. Publicit
... See moreJohn Berger • Ways of Seeing
The global revolution which has seized upon modern man and in whose storm center we find ourselves today has, with its transvaluation of all values, led to a loss of orientation in the part and in the whole, and daily we have new and painful experience of its repercussions in the political life of the collective, as well
Erich Neumann • The Origins And History Of Consciousness (International Library of Psychology)
98 percent of cultural Christians were white, 91 percent of dechurched mainstream evangelicals were white, 82 percent of exvangelicals4 were white, and 0 percent of dechurched BIPOC5 were white (we selected the name for
Collin Hansen • The Great Dechurching
L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
Walter Truett Anderson, writing in 1996, describes the four pillars of postmodernism: 1.The social construction of the concept of the self: Identity is constructed by many cultural forces and is not given to a person by tradition; 2.Relativism of moral and ethical discourse: Morality is not found but made. That is, morality is not based on cultural
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

Religion, modernity said, is a private matter.
John D. Caputo • Truth: Philosophy in Transit
L’acte de voir est particulièrement important quand il remet en question ce que nous savons et ce à quoi nous nous fions, ce qui ne manque pas de nous déstabiliser. C’est l’acte de voir qui nous permet de nous informer et d’ajuster notre situation. C’est pour cette raison que Nietzsche a déclaré que la valeur d’un homme était déterminée par la dose
... See moreJordan B. Peterson • 12 règles pour une vie (French Edition)
They tend to believe, like the philosopher Thomas Hobbes, that a society in chaos is the worst possible condition. Conservatives are therefore sensitive to threats to social order,