No tags for this post.Generally speaking, all the great events have been distorted, most of the important causes concealed, some of the principal characters never appear, and all who figure are so misunderstood and misrepresented, that the result is a complete mystification, and the perusal of the narrative about as profitable as reading the Republic of Plato or the Utopia if More.
The Royal Society’s motto ‘Nullius in verba’ is taken to mean ‘take nobody’s word for it’. It is an expression of the determination of Fellows to withstand the domination of authority and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment.
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How far we’ve come from 1600s.
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like thisThose damn Darwins.
No tags for this post.“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization. The size and the importance of the United States throws on you a special responsibility in your endeavours to safeguard the future of our race. Those who are attending your Congress will be aiding in this endeavour, and though you will gain no thanks from your own generation, posterity will, I believe, learn to realize the great dept it owes to all the workers in this field.” ? Leonard Darwin
“War is a hoax” has been going on for a long time.
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war.”
– William Randolph Hearst, January 25, 1898
No tags for this post.No tags for this post.“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ? Upton Sinclair.
No tags for this post.What’s the difference between ignorance and Apathy?
I don’t know and I don’t care.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
No tags for this post.No tags for this post.A second fundamental belief of Strauss?s ancients has to do with their insistence on the need for secrecy and the necessity of lies. In his book Persecution and the Art of Writing, Strauss outlines why secrecy is necessary. He argues that the wise must conceal their views for two reasons ? to spare the people?s feelings and to protect the elite from possible reprisals.
The people will not be happy to learn that there is only one natural right ? the right of the superior to rule over the inferior, the master over the slave, the husband over the wife, and the wise few over the vulgar many.
likes this“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
