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| 2014 publication from MIT Press |
As Whitehead noted, exalting the scientific over the aesthetic was a “disastrous error” that left us caught “between the gross specialized values of the mere practical man, and the thin specialized values of the mere scholar”—that is, between Wall Street and the Ivory Tower—without a solid or realistic basis for making critical decisions.
In terms of politics, nature had taught Hitler only two “laws.” One was the “trampling to death” of alien species “to maintain [one’s own] species.” The other was “not to value the individual life too highly,” that is, it was all right to trample to death individuals of one’s own species. The latter principle he even considered a “divine law,” the only one in which he was inclined to believe. He demonstrated the dispensation of God with the example of—flies.
It has often been said that the British acquired their empire in a fit of absent-mindedness, as consequence of automatic trends, yielding to what seemed possible and what was tempting, rather than as a result of deliberate policy. If this is true, then the road to hell may just as well be paved with no intentions as with the proverbial good ones.
If violence is the midwife of history and violent action therefore the most dignified of all forms of human action, what will happen when, after the conclusion of class struggle and the disappearance of the state, no violence will even be possible? How will men be able to act at all in a meaningful, authentic way? Finally, when philosophy has been both realized and abolished in the future society, what kind of thought will be left?
It is no truism to stress that the hard-right vote is a right-wing vote. The hard right has grown out of a conservative electorate.
The very simple assumption underlying the LCHF/ketogenic diet is that it’s the carbohydrate-rich foods we eat that make us unhealthy: both fat and sick.
“Thomas Jefferson explained the power of language with the help of an analogy: “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”30”
