"Idolatry is still a socially cohesive force - its original function."

-- Julian Jaynes

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“I do think that there is pressure in various constituencies to reject the president.”
“To maintain their power, dominant groups create and maintain a popular system of 'commonsense' ideas that support their right to rule. In the United States, hegemonic ideologies concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation are often so pervasive that it is difficult to conceptualize alternatives to them, let alone ways of resisting the social practices that they justify.”

Source : Patricia Hill Collins (2000). “Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment”, p.284, Psychology Press
“We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.”
“Comedy covers such a wide range of different styles that I'm not really qualified to talk on all of them any more than anyone else is.”
“Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.”
“I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.”
“One of the problems with hip hop is lack of infrastructure and not being able to control its own course. I don't like that hip hop is full of infantile 35-year-olds. Hip hop cannot afford to be lazy.”
“Only create associations with positive affinities. Make this a rule of life and you will benefit more than from all the therapy in the world.”

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