identity wrote:But there is an apocalyptic "catch," and to his credit, Mackinder saw it, and in seeing it, he strongly implicates the possibilities of apocalyptic social engineering to create just such a World Empire out of Huntington's Clash of Civilizations:
That is the key.
"If you're not careful the newspapers will have you hating the oppressed and loving the people doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X
Ted Dace wrote:Though science is supposed to be a neutral methodology for acquiring reliable knowledge, in the real world it’s weighted down by ideology: reality is matter under the control of timeless equations. If science has a metaphysics, it’s materialism incoherently joined at the hip with mathematical idealism. LINK
"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933
"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts." - Richard Feynman, NYC, 1966
The biggest conspiracy theory perpetuated by all kinds of politicians, by all major news outlets, and all kinds of publications, including educational and scholarly is this: That currently, during the second decade of XXI century, US and its NATO allies are these noble and benevolent forces behind the fight against barbarism, tyranny, oppression, superstition, and all other evils in the world.
It is really mind-boggling how many people believe in this theory. Much more than all the UFOs, Reptilians, 9/11, Rothschilds, Holocaust-denying, ZOG-affirming, Holodomor-proclaiming, combined.
-- Vladimir Golstein
"He who wounds the ecosphere literally wounds God" -- Philip K. Dick
I’m sure people who work for Facebook don’t believe that they’re working for the company that will destroy the world. But, you know, they are. And everyone gets through the day rationalizing their own existence. ~ Jonathan Nolan
"There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest... and this public passion must be superior to all private passions." - John Adams, 1776