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As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sense that a lot of people take it very seriously and react angrily when people misuse its sacred terms … but also in a much more fundamental and potentially constructive way. It has done what so much of anodyne, classical liberalism has failed to do. It has imbued the secular sphere with meaning. It has reenchanted a godless world.
Resources for Climate Nihilism
Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated
To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
The Freedom of the Press
O. Dag
Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can amplify a signal, like putting static over a photograph too faint to be seen can make it visible, and [human perception already makes good use of this](https://interconnected.org/home/2020/12/15/omens)
Dowsing Is a Technology for Intuition Amplification
Matt Webb
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