Category: Popular Culture
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Lucy in the Sky
lthough he may have superior intelligence, the psychopath is basically reptilian in terms of emotional development. He is driven by the needs and desires of the body, interested in little other than money, sex, and power.
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The Girls and the City
Man is reasonable, and by that very fact, like unto God; he was created free, to be master of his acts. ~ St Ireneus
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Prolegomena to Historiography
it may take generations for the lesson to be learned. As it is said, the iniquities of the fathers fall on the children. Very few men have the acuity to see how decisions made today will affect their descendants three generations hence.
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The Path of Blue Flowers
You ask me what I mean by ideas when I say that they are the only permanent thing in man and that they alone deserve one’s lifetime attention. Ideas are first of all opposed to ephemeral external things and to the sensations, desires, and passions directly referring to them.
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2016: Obama’s America
I saw the surprising hit movie 2016: Obama’s America this past weekend and am still unsure what its point is. It is the brainchild of the Anglo-Indian Dinesh D’Souza First of all, it was certainly a well-produced and researched documentary; as such, it is a model of what can—and should—be done by those who find…
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Burn Notice
About a spy who receives a “burn notice”, that is, he is excommunicated, in the original sense of the world, from his spiritual community without explanation. He is thrown into the world and left without any identity, assets, or resources, basically turned into an outlaw.
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Prisoner of the System
A person an individual who is differentiated through his qualities, endowed with his own face, his proper nature, and a series of attributes that make him who he is … that make him fundamentally unequal.
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Just ask Why?
The episode revolves around a concept called Speedlearn whereby a university level history course is taught in three minutes.