synthesis

Over the course of history, the principal factors which induce us to believe something, or believe in something, often change in form, but rarely in function. Tendencies underlying the origin and longevity of seemingly ludicrous convictions appear to remain constant over time, setting, and medium, regardless of their individual incarnations....

From December, 2008:

It is arguably impossible to find a period in the history of the radical left in which its constituents were more ineffective and just as difficult to find a time in which they were needed more. (By the left, I am referring to those who at some level agree with the statement that "people should be more important than their social constructions.")

Recently, the most powerful political position in the most powerful hegemony in the world...

This essay is from 2008; it's basically my attempt to put post-modernism in its proper historical context, and in the process, I demonstrate why The Selfish Gene is bullshit. Read on.

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From 2007:

"Imagine, sang John Lennon, a world with no religion. Imagine no suicide bombers, no 9/11, no 7/7, no Crusades, no witch-hunts, no Gunpowder Plot, no Kashmir dispute, no Indo/Pakistan partition, no Israel/Palestine wars, no Serb/Croat/Muslim massacres, no Northern Ireland 'troubles'. Imagine no Taliban blowing up ancient statues, lashing women for showing an inch of skin, or publicly beheading blasphemers and apostates."

-Richard Dawkins

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