Escape from EvilAn exploration of the natural history of evil. |
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Page 118
... masses now wear the white coats of hospital psychiatrists who transform dirty dissident victims with the latest techniques of “ secular ” science . It is grotesque , but Burke had warned us to always watch for the “ secular equivalents ...
... masses now wear the white coats of hospital psychiatrists who transform dirty dissident victims with the latest techniques of “ secular ” science . It is grotesque , but Burke had warned us to always watch for the “ secular equivalents ...
Page 132
... masses hungry for it and fearful of it . Each society elevates and rewards leaders who are talented at giving the masses heroic victory , expiation for guilt , relief of personal conflicts . It doesn't matter how these are achieved ...
... masses hungry for it and fearful of it . Each society elevates and rewards leaders who are talented at giving the masses heroic victory , expiation for guilt , relief of personal conflicts . It doesn't matter how these are achieved ...
Page 161
... masses willingly embed their fearful freedoms.20 There we have it : the culmination of the Enlighten- ment in a proper focus on the fundamental dynamics of mass slavishness . On the highest level of sophistication we know in detail what ...
... masses willingly embed their fearful freedoms.20 There we have it : the culmination of the Enlighten- ment in a proper focus on the fundamental dynamics of mass slavishness . On the highest level of sophistication we know in detail what ...
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Ritual as Practical Technics | 6 |
Economics as Expiation | 26 |
The Origin of Inequality | 38 |
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