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From reading Brave New World, which I just finished reading, Aldous Huxley was certainly critical of modernization and technology - perhaps even more so than being critical of government. Anybody who read the book feel this way?
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Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul took what very well could be considered his most pro-Israel stance yet, saying in an interview that an attack on Israel should be treated as an attack on the United States. Asked whether the United States would stand with Israel and provide it foreign aid if the Jewish state were attacked by its enemies, Paul went
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ToxicAssets, there is a free pdf copy of that book somewhere on the web.
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The JohnTaylor Gatto quote is directly from the book, Dumbing Us Down, I'm reading. I highly recommend this book, although there are a few things here and there I can't agree with.
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As a general rule, I would say that the more a person has been exposed to higher education, the more likely she is to behave irrationally and manifest all kinds of group think herd behavior. Actually "group think herd behavior" starts at kindergarten : Grammar school, at least here in the U.S. seems to center around conformity and "following
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Yay for Freedom Images. No forum would be complete without them.
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"Facts, schmacts. You can use facts to prove anything that's even vaguely true" - Homer Simpson I always wondered about Britain's violent crime rate stated at 2000 per 100k population. I know that's a wild exaggeration, as I used to live there for some time. But these are the numbers that people use, to make the case for/ against
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I find that forum cumbersome and awkward to use. The user name must not contain any spaces. Pictures that you post appear as a thumbnail and you can't post more than one picture at a time. Hopefully the flaws will be fixed sometimes soon.
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Thanks to my new kindle device, I'm reading a variety of books right now. Brave New World - some similarities to 1984 The Dictators Handbook : Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics - the central theme of the book is that the leader is more concerned with getting into office and staying in power over anything else, may the system be a dictatorship