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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... tells us that our actions are in no understandable sense willed but simply the resultants of our conditioning and our present circumstances . * So reason has no real freedom , and even if it had - if it were the instrument of Free Will ...
... tells us that our actions are in no understandable sense willed but simply the resultants of our conditioning and our present circumstances . * So reason has no real freedom , and even if it had - if it were the instrument of Free Will ...
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... telling us is our national disease , is something we bring on our- selves , by mutual agreement . It's not that we ... tell about it - no one who would be more than they had always been to others : a casual pres- ence , a sounding ...
... telling us is our national disease , is something we bring on our- selves , by mutual agreement . It's not that we ... tell about it - no one who would be more than they had always been to others : a casual pres- ence , a sounding ...
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... tells us that " surely all material things have a form of sentience . . . some subtle and complicated ten- sion of vibration which makes them sensitive to external influence and causes them to have an effect on other external objects ...
... tells us that " surely all material things have a form of sentience . . . some subtle and complicated ten- sion of vibration which makes them sensitive to external influence and causes them to have an effect on other external objects ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
On Being a Believer | 33 |
Touch Hate Feel Etc | 42 |
Copyright | |
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