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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... lives in a permissive society , the man who solves his anxiety - cum - identity problems through sex can be a “ swinger " to the limit of his God - given abilities , and it may be years before the difficulties inherent in that solution ...
... lives in a permissive society , the man who solves his anxiety - cum - identity problems through sex can be a “ swinger " to the limit of his God - given abilities , and it may be years before the difficulties inherent in that solution ...
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... lives of millions is surely aristocratic in the grand old sense . When one realizes moreover that many of those who lost their lives did so sheerly as a result of miscalculations made by some political scientist or State Department hack ...
... lives of millions is surely aristocratic in the grand old sense . When one realizes moreover that many of those who lost their lives did so sheerly as a result of miscalculations made by some political scientist or State Department hack ...
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... lives and give us , en bloc , a new sense of worth and purpose . His voca- tion is to do for us what the Church did long ago — to centralize nonsense in himself , enabling us once again to throw our troubles on the Lord . It is hard to ...
... lives and give us , en bloc , a new sense of worth and purpose . His voca- tion is to do for us what the Church did long ago — to centralize nonsense in himself , enabling us once again to throw our troubles on the Lord . It is hard to ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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