eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Modern Conservatives are so pathetic that they can't even ask to be judged fairly. They have to demand that you aren't allowed to judge them at all. MAGA, in particular, are obsessed with the idea of being victimized by critical thinking and doubt. 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A lesson from the past for the billionaires of today: "He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough." Laozi, Tao Te Ching, ~300 BCE 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Being against evil doesn't make you good." -Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream, 1970 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 12/09/2026If you find the only way to defend your political views is to pretend there's a rule stating no one is allowed to apply rational judgment to you and your politics, then your views are the problem, not the judgments. Critical thinking is not victimization just because you don't like to be wrong. 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 04/11/2025During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream... yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers -Zhuangzi 300BC 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 19/09/2025propaganda discovered that its audience was ready...to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not...object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie...instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would...admire the leaders for their...tactical clevernesshac.bard.eduOn Fake Hannah Arendt QuotationsThis article discusses a mis-attributed quote to Hannah Arendt circulating on social media, exploring why such alterations occur and their potential consequences. Berkowitz argues that while simplifie... 010
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025"The wise man who has charge of governing the empire should know the cause of disorder before he can put it in order. Unless he knows its cause, he cannot regulate it. [...] Suppose we try to locate the cause of disorder, we shall find it lies in the want of mutual love." -Mozi (c.470 – 391 BCE) 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 18/09/2025"less civil, but at the same time less quarrelsome. There are many little attentions which an American does not care about; he thinks they are not due to him [...] does not perceive a rudeness or he forgives it; his manners become less courteous, and his character more plain" (A. Tocqueville, 1835) 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 14/09/2025"Actual practices in the advanced democratic countries are, then, far too diverse and complex to be captured by ideologies." Robert A. Dahl ("After the Revolution?", 1970) 000
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025"The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit; once you've got the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning; once you've got the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?" -Zhuangzi (c.369-286 BCE) 010
eccentriclogic.bsky.social @eccentriclogic.bsky.social · 23/07/2025"Never believe that [MAGA] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words." -Sartre [modernized]doi.orgA Situation of Fear: Revisiting Sartre in Trump’s AmericaABSTRACT. This article considers how Jean-Paul Sartre’s 1944 essay on “the Jewish question,” Anti-Semite and Jew, sheds light on contemporary politics. Trump’s manipulation of fear and fabrication of ... 010
