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Further Into Negativity
This is my favorite passage from one of Huxley’s lesser-known novels. The second half provides a good description of what it means to “be triggered;” written almost twenty years before the term “cognitive dissonance” was coined. “Mr. Propter was sitting on a bench under the largest of his eucalyptus trees….
The Morality Of The Means
“There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man, requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery, one’s own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of others. Robbery! Forcible appropriation! These words convey to us ideas of crime and…
Greater Love
GREATER LOVE Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead. Kindness of wooed and wooer Seems shame to their love pure. O Love, your eyes lose lure When I behold eyes blinded in my stead! Your slender attitude Trembles not exquisite like limbs…
The Monkey’s Paw
A little ditty for election day: “All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote,…
Even Easier To Be Hard
“Most appeals in the name of social justice rely on an underlying assumption of universal altruism. They assume that you care if something bad happens to anyone, anywhere, and advise you to take some sort of action to ease or prevent their suffering. “People react by questioning whether or not…
Orwell In A Nutshell
“Orwell… was an almost classic case of the Old Intellectual in the sense that for him a political commitment to a utopian, socialist future was plainly a substitute for a religious idealism in which he could not believe. God could not exist for him. He put his faith in man…