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Once again, I repeat: we are not our thoughts. We are the awareness the thoughts are arising to and within. Most thoughts don’t matter, and some thoughts really don’t matter. Every moment we invest in our unwanted thoughts, every ounce of energy we put into trying to disprove them, is a morsel of time and energy wasted. We are validating and strengthening what’s insignificant—a strange, albeit noisy blip in a flawed system.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
What distinguished libertarians from conventional, pro-business Republicans was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, and little else.
George Packer
theatlantic.com
What is new today is *not* that many humanities professors are openly political in their research or teaching. What is new is that departments like English at elite universities have become officially politicized at the behest of university bureaucrats.
The Humanities Have Sown the Seeds of Their Own Destruction - The Atlantic
Tyler Austin Harper
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