"I read at least one periodical every month by a political group I dislike - to keep some sense of balance. The overwhelming stupidity of political movements is caused by the fact that political types never read anything but their own gang's agit-prop."

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Robert Anton Wilson

#Stupidity Quotes #Political Quotes #Balance Quotes

“Weâ€™re turning everything on the planet into food for humans so weâ€™re cutting down the rainforests, displacing all of the animals, and weâ€™re doing all this to feed humans... ... Imagine if there were only 2 billion people polluting? Weâ€™re already overpopulated. I feel weâ€™ve become a parasite on this planet. If this population keeps growing, weâ€™ll just keep devouring the planet, and I donâ€™t think itâ€™s going to stand for that very long.”
“When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge and to independently acquired knowledge. To counteract this tendency a special effort is required to transform inherited knowledge into genuine knowledge by revitalizing its original discovery, and to discriminate between the genuine and the spurious elements of what claims to be inherited knowledge.”
“Generalists, people with moderately strong attachments to many ideas, should be hard to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have weaker, shorter negative reactions since they have alternative paths to realize their plans. Specialists, people with stronger attachments to fewer ideas, should be easier to interrupt, and once interrupted, should have stronger, more sustained negative reactions because they have fewer alternative pathways to realize their plans. Generalists should be the upbeat, positive people in the profession while specialists should be their grouchy, negative counterparts.”
“We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.”
“I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.”

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“I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.”
“Our purpose is to grow up and become love”
“From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.”

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