domingo, 31 de dezembro de 2017
Ser humano
"As a general rule, people, even the wicked, are much more naive and simple-hearted than we suppose." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
sábado, 30 de dezembro de 2017
A curta história humana
«This excellent short book by Hans-Hermann Hoppe is perhaps one of his most under-appreciated works. Whereas ‘Democracy, The God That Failed’ has all the socialist enemy fighters closing in on full alert, this one sneaks stealthily under their shoddy radar.
What it basically details is how humans evolved in the last couple of hundred thousand years, particularly in the harsh glacial ‘ice age’ conditions, to later develop modern technologies, languages, and cultures, and particularly those ideas pertaining to liberty, property, and freedom. It then heads through to the industrial revolution and also the accompanying debasement of natural aristocracy into the poisoned fruit of democracy. In short, it is the evolutionary story of how human civilisation got distilled out of a primate inheritance.»
Destruição da ordem social
«Understanding today’s political trends has become a challenging undertaking. Invoking Freudian psychology will strike some as not the most promising method. But Howard Schwartz has written a book of considerable importance and depth, where he endeavors—convincingly and without psychobabble—to explain the roots of “political correctness” in terms of how we connect at a young age with our respective parents and what happens when this development is altered, arrested, distorted...
Ver maisKennedy sobre sociedades secretas
Discurso de John Kennedy contra as sociedades secretas, em 1961. O discurso se dirige, ao que consta, a organizações como:
Skull and Bones
Oligarquias Sionistas
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Mente biacameral
"When Julian Jaynes...speculates that until late in the second millennium B.C. men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis through all the corroborative evidence..."
- John Updike, in The New Yorker
- John Updike, in The New Yorker
"This book and this man's ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century. It renders whole shelves of books obsolete."
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Menta bicameral
TED video] “Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes considers imaginary companions a vestige of the bicameral mind. Many researchers believe imaginary companions involve actual hallucinations. In ancient civilizations, this was the socially accepted guiding voice, often interpreted as ancestors or gods. “
Oracle
“For more than a thousand years, Greeks from all walks of life consulted oracles for guidance received directly from the gods. This colorful and wide-ranging survey encompasses the entire history of Greek oracles and focuses fresh attention on philosophical, psychological, and anthropological aspects of oracular consultation. It also examines how Greek oracles' practices were distinctive compared to those of their neighbors, especially in Egypt, Babylon, and Israel.
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Revolução russa
«As we approach the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, it is fitting to ask whether we have learned what it tells us about its ideological root. Do we now appreciate that the Marxist ideology destroys legal order, political opposition and human rights? Do we have some idea of the death toll that has in every case followed the triumph of the ‘vanguard party’? Do we have an inkling of the human cost of collectivisation, or of what the gulag meant in terms of the humiliation and destruction of its victims?
Of course the answer in each case is no. Our school curriculum dwells incessantly on the Holocaust. Several states have made denial of it into a crime, and museums and monuments to the victims of Nazism and fascism exist all across the continent. But communism’s millions of victims are remembered hardly at all.»
sexta-feira, 29 de dezembro de 2017
Dívida pública
We will probably witness some stop-gap measure to raise the debt ceiling. But for a permanent solution, modern Americans would do well to follow the antifederalist advice that our first Congress ignored.
Estado, governo, políticos
«The state -- or, to make the matter more concrete, the government -- consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get, and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.» -- H. L. Mencken
Dignidade
A splendid statement. Study it; take it to heart; let it guide your thinking about everything the state does or touches.
Your prudential acquiescence in the state's domination and your reluctant compliance with its dictates may be forgiven, in light of the state's overwhelming power and its determination to ruin your life if you step out of line. But every form of affirmative support for and uncoerced engagement with it is wrong and damaging to your soul.
Your prudential acquiescence in the state's domination and your reluctant compliance with its dictates may be forgiven, in light of the state's overwhelming power and its determination to ruin your life if you step out of line. But every form of affirmative support for and uncoerced engagement with it is wrong and damaging to your soul.
A nova maioridade moral
Liberalismo
“This essay shows how William W Bartley and Karl Popper have created a major shift in the Western tradition of rationality, a shift which immensely strengthens the philosophy of liberalism. True lovers of freedom have always been forced to work against the authoritarian grain of Western thought because the dominant intellectual traditions, rationalist and irrationalist alike, sponsor dogmatism and intolerance. Even those who challenge this authoritarian heritage usually shar...
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Novo idade do gelo
Um grupo de investigadores britânicos e russos, de várias universidades, prevê a possibilidade de, a partir de 2030 e durante cerca de 30 anos, as temperaturas baixarem drasticamente em toda a Europa
visao.sapo.pt
Igualdade
“Inequality is not so much a cause of economic, political, and social processes as a consequence. Some of these processes are good, some are bad, and some are verybad indeed. Only by sorting the good from the bad (and the very bad) can we understand inequality and what to do about it.”
Angus Deaton — https://www.project-syndicate.org/…/anatomy-of-inequality-2
Angus Deaton — https://www.project-syndicate.org/…/anatomy-of-inequality-2
Fertilidade
redução da taxa global de fertilidade num quarto de século - de cerca de 4,45 nascimentos por mulher em 1970 para algo como 2,5 in 2014. Se este ritmo se mantiver, a população global do planeta começará a reduzir-se para os finais deste século. (Recorde-se que a taxa de fertilidade para sustentar a população é de 2,1 nascimentos por mulher.)
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Rumi
Stalin - Hitler
O mais importante ensaio que já li sobre a fatídica decisão de Hitler de invadir e derrotar a União Soviética em junho de 1941. Dois tiranos admirando um ao outro mas o alemão obcecado pela ideia de dominar o vasto império soviético, o que provou ser a sua ruína, como já tinha sido a de Napoleão. Hitler não conseguiu ser Bismarck, mas Stalin conseguiu sobreviver como Pedro, o Grande, e mais do que isso, como Ivan, o Terrível.
Stephen Kotkin tells the story of the fateful night in 1941 when, after years of mutual nonaggression, Germany finally attacked the Soviet Union.
foreignaffairs.com
quinta-feira, 28 de dezembro de 2017
Mente bicameral
“This paper explores the possibility that the human mind underwent substantial changes in recent history. Assuming that consciousness is a substantial trait of the mind, the paper focuses on the suggestion made by Julian Jaynes that the Mycenean Greeks had a “bicameral” mind instead of a conscious one. The suggestion is commonly dismissed as patently absurd, for instance by critics such as Ned Block. A closer examination of the intuitions involved, considered from different theoretical angles (social constructivism, idealism, eliminativism, realism), reveals that the idea of ‘Greek zombies’ should be taken more seriously than is commonly assumed.”
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