THE EVAPORATION OF AUTHORITY (In conclusion to Part I yesterday) This unorthodox proposal about language and thinking has far more corollaries and consequences than I can touch on in this essay. Here I want to draw attention to one peculiar consequence: the gradual evaporation of authority. Authority is in essence a relationship between one person and […]
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What is going on? We are surrounded by insanity. The Western world is riddled with irrational beliefs, absurd policies, dysfunctional organisations and fanatical advocates of monomanias in medicine, climatology, education and sexual politics. Amid this lunacy single-minded corporations are making outrageous profits regardless of the collateral damages of their actions. The mad, like the poor, are always
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I have never worried about climate change because I was sure that humans would do something irredeemably stupid long before any possible consequences of a small change in the atmosphere. And lo, here they are doing countless irredeemably stupid things all at once. From a vast and expanding field of idiotic activities let us mention four forces,
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