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blackliberal (55)in #germany • 7 years ago
German collective guilt
Long before I started my career in Modern Languages I was always attracted to German culture and its success as a society. Regardless of what happened in World War II, I always…
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blackliberal (55)in #economy • 7 years ago
Free Market: China and Vietnam
Whether we like it or not China and Vietnam are two successful examples of the political and economic evolution from a closed communist system to a more open society, with a very…
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blackliberal (55)in #freedom • 7 years ago
Freedom and society
"In short, the isolated man cannot be conscious of his freedom. To be free for man as such by another man, by all the men around him. Freedom is not, therefore, an act of…
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blackliberal (55)in #economy • 7 years ago
Value and what set it
The question of why things have the value they have or what the word "value" really means is a problem that has occupied the minds of economists since the beginning of their…
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blackliberal (55)in #society • 7 years ago
Peterson, pronouns, and culturalmarxism
A year ago when I read Michael D. O'Brein's Plague Journal, a dystopia whose story takes us to a Canada ruled by totalitarian gender ideologues, the main protagonist is a father…
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blackliberal (55)in #steempress • 7 years ago
Vaccines, thimerosal and autism
Due to the sudden growth of anti-vaccine movements around the world, the Australian government has launched a No Jab, No Pay program, which requires parents who do not vaccinate…
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blackliberal (55)in #truth • 7 years ago
Post-Truth: Language
The language of post-truth is the language that was defined at the XIII International Seminar on Language and Journalism held recently in San Millán de la Cogolla. The…
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blackliberal (55)in #freedom • 7 years ago
Brief reflection: Freedom of expression?
There is no such thing as freedom of expression. Today, in a world dominated by "post-truths", one can no longer say what one thinks or believes, without fearing to be the victim…
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blackliberal (55)in #society • 7 years ago
Fractional Banking and consuming society
In a world where the basis for growth is materialism and consumption, one could say that today's society is a true reflection of what happens when capitalism is faithfully…
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blackliberal (55)in #economy • 7 years ago
The end of world starvation
Breakthoguhs in science have developed new technologies and economic systems that are doing working better and better, hunger could disappear by the year 2005. According to FAO:…
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blackliberal (55)in #steempress • 7 years ago
About Tolitarianism, socialism and ignorance...
No society in today's world, both past and present, has been immune to indoctrination as a mean of control from an extremist ideal, or to the simple fact of power and…
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blackliberal (55)in #steempress • 7 years ago
TEDx: PEDOPHILLIA
Don't you think it's incredible how much money is invested to bring a message that sells the unnatural, the sick and the decadent as normal and admirable? This is the world we…
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blackliberal (55)in #steempress • 7 years ago
The Holocaust: Israel's excuse
79 years after the Holocaust, the systematic mass persecution and murder of six million Jews and other ethnic groups - the exact number is unknown - organized by the Nazi regime…
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blackliberal (55)in #trafficking • 7 years ago
Organ trafficking: a new form of slavery
Human organ transplantation is one of the most terrible scourges of today's society. It is a form of slavery that affects the poorest. In the least developed countries…
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blackliberal (55)in #briefreflection • 7 years ago
Brief reflection: The importance of reading
I start from the idea that the intellectual value of a man is directly related to the number of books he read; if he read only one intellectual book he is like a ten-year-old…
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blackliberal (55)in #culture • 7 years ago
Brief reflection: Hierarchy, Apology of the West
What distinguishes human society from animals is that it evolves and changes over time, changes for better or for worse, but changes. Whether through its successes or failures…
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blackliberal (55)in #politics • 7 years ago
Irrational voters
Winston Churchill said that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Meaning that the vast majority of voters are intolerably…
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blackliberal (55)in #philosophy • 7 years ago
Demagogy: Aristotle and Ortega y Gasset
It is no surprise to anyone that governments with democratic systems or representative republics - the world system by definition - always result in demagoguery, as Aristotle…
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blackliberal (55)in #politics • 7 years ago
Brief reflection: Animal Farm
Two days ago, 115 years ago, the British writer Eric Arthur Blair, known worldwide as George Orwell, was born. His two novels critical of totalitarianism, Animal Farm and 1984…
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blackliberal (55)in #politics • 7 years ago
The role of the intellectual: improving or worsening?
The other day I had a very intense debate with a person who was hoisting the book of the open veins of Latin America and its contents. Arguing that the value and content of the…
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