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Behind the Aegis

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9. I figured you would appreciate this...
Wed Apr 11, 2018, 04:49 PM
Apr 2018

George Orwell wrote:

“… the nationalist is often somewhat uninterested in what happens in the real world. What he wants is to feel that his own unit is getting the better of some other unit, and he can more easily do this by scoring off an adversary than by examining the facts to see whether they support him.”


“A known fact may be so unbearable that it is pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.”


“… something, some psychological vitamin, is lacking in modern civilisation, and as a result we are all more or less subject to this lunacy of believing that whole races or nations are mysteriously good or mysteriously evil. I defy any modern intellectual to look closely and honestly into his own mind without coming upon nationalistic loyalties and hatreds of one kind or another.”
K&R Solly Mack Apr 2018 #1
I figured you would appreciate this... Behind the Aegis Apr 2018 #9
I do. Solly Mack Apr 2018 #11
K&R n/t Glorfindel Apr 2018 #2
KnR! Canoe52 Apr 2018 #3
Wish I could K&R x 1,000,000 Moostache Apr 2018 #4
Occam's Razor! smirkymonkey Apr 2018 #5
"...impose SOCIALISM!" screamed the old white guy on Medicare & Social Security. CrispyQ Apr 2018 #6
k&r BSdetect Apr 2018 #7
Critical thinking disappeared with Raygun's election. kairos12 Apr 2018 #8
Sad but true Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2018 #10
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