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A quotation from Orwell

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent. Each of them tacitly claims that “the truth” has already been revealed, and that the heretic, if he is not simply a fool, is secretly aware of “the truth” and merely resists it out of selfish motives.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-01), “The Prevention of Literature,” Polemic Magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/12542/

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔: 𝑶𝒕𝒊𝒖𝒎 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑴𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒐𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒓 - 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑱𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 -

Le Guin leans on an essay by William James, but what does that have to do with all our garden talk? It's about our blind spots and our privilege. We dig into the key question in James's essay and worry a bit.

waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/wa

>Finding Solutions to the problems we face<

#SavingDemocracy

You need #Resilience in times of #Authoritarianism

Pushing back on authoritarian regimes

The accent on #Nonviolence while practicing mass protests

Using #tools & #spaces of #opposition

The Importance of:

#Unity

#Resistance means we model the #values that we would like to see in politics and in the world

#Hope

A template for Resistance was the march for joy against the Pinoche military dictatorship

youtube.com/watch?v=Qe23_qFDd4

#Trump faces #bipartisan blowback in #Congress on #Iran strikes Why it matters: While most #congressional #Republicans some pro-Israel #Democrats are praising President Trump's strikes on #Iranian #nuclear facilities, pockets of #opposition are already emerging over whether he needed congressional #authorization for such a #provocative use of #military #force. Yes, he did need Congressional #authorization..why is there even a question. #warpowers #foreign #policy #retaliation #democracy #war

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@haiku_shelf @hal2022

Es scheint mir jedoch kein individuelles, sondern ein gemeinsames Problem zu sein: Auch #Opposition, #Medien und sogar #Wissenschaft nahmen nicht wahr, dass wir uns mit dem Abbremsen der #Solarenergie in weitere, strategische Abhängigkeiten von #China, #Russland & Co. begeben würden. Nicht nur #PeterAltmaier, wir alle haben das nicht "gesehen". Und jetzt steigern wir die #Verteidigungsausgaben... Erneuerbare sind auch #Sicherheitsenergien, aber das blieb damals verborgen.