The New Nonsense: The End of the Rational ConsensusAnalyzes the embracing of non-rational ideas or beliefs in the face of contradictory evidence as a harbinger of social collapse. |
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... feel is just within our grasp . One way around this difficulty is to revive Rousseau's fantasy of Original Innocence , which of course makes the present boom in violence and the " rip - off " unnecessarily hard to account for . Like ...
... feel is just within our grasp . One way around this difficulty is to revive Rousseau's fantasy of Original Innocence , which of course makes the present boom in violence and the " rip - off " unnecessarily hard to account for . Like ...
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... feel , is never far away . So while our " clinical picture " might ap- pear to classify us as raging misfits , amazingly enough four days of alpha - control training may snap us right out of it . As a matter of fact , even a kind of ...
... feel , is never far away . So while our " clinical picture " might ap- pear to classify us as raging misfits , amazingly enough four days of alpha - control training may snap us right out of it . As a matter of fact , even a kind of ...
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... feel is the thing . Sixty years ago , Lawrence said it : " My great religion , " he was already saying in 1912 , " is a belief in the blood , the flesh , as being wiser than the intellect . " He forecast us all , and like the seers of ...
... feel is the thing . Sixty years ago , Lawrence said it : " My great religion , " he was already saying in 1912 , " is a belief in the blood , the flesh , as being wiser than the intellect . " He forecast us all , and like the seers of ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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