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“We are living in an era when sanity is controversial and insanity is just another viewpoint—and degeneracy only another lifestyle.”
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Since specialization is a way of coping with the inadequacies of the human mind, it should hardly be surprising that those with the vision of the anointed often view specialization negatively, or that their vocabulary often reflects that. Cosmic decisions require minds with cosmic scope—and to say that there are no such minds, that the human experience must be broken down into manageable-sized pieces, is to deny the vision of the anointed. Meanwhile, those with the tragic vision have often proclaimed the virtues of specialization. Adam Smith attributed much of economic progress to the “division of labor,” Edmund Burke said that he “revered” the specialist within his specialty, and Oliver Wendell Holmes said that specialists were more needed than generalists, whose presumptions he derided. But such views are the opposite of the views among the anointed.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
The secret sauce of the West, what Ben Shapiro referred to as “Athens plus Jerusalem,” faith and reason operating in harmony make the West work. It works not only because it's successful in its own rights as a positive claim, but because it boxes out or gate keeps the Gnostics. Athens plus Jerusalem keeps Alexandria at Bay.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
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