Archives For Ponders
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Ideology provides a lens through which one sees the world, a set of beliefs that are held so firmly that one hardly needs empirical confirmation.
-Globalization and Its Discontents
