Charisma 2.0 is the ability to lie all the time and look more authentic because of it. #happyinaugurationday
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Outrage sugercoated with decency
9/11
Blowing up two towers to justify spending billions on military contractors is easier than blowing up two bridges to justify spending billions on infrastructure contractors.
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Upbringing
Authoritarian upbringing: If you misbehave, you don’t get any food.
Modern parenting: If you misbehave, your food won’t taste good.
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Civilization is the ability to believe in a justification for our cruelty.
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It doesn’t matter much if we have hope now. Will we have hope when a majority of people are literally dying to improve our lot?
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to defend a value that can resist those who promote it
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Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
This poem by Robert Creeley perfectly fits Bernie Sander’s campaign.
“I want, if older, / still to know / why, human, men / and women are / so torn, so lost / why hopes cannot / find a better world / than this.”
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The most important function of the economic operating system is not to get capital together, but to get heads together
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the nonsense of infinite growth just distracts from the fact that we will all wither and die
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TTIP means throwing democracy overboard for the financial security of the wealthy elite
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