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As noted in Chapter 5, black and other minority students with the qualifications for success have been artificially turned into failures by being mismatched with academic institutions they do not qualify for under the standards applied to other students.
Intellectuals and Race
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
Society itself is a codified hero system, which means that society everywhere is a living myth of the significance of human life, a defiant creation of meaning. Every society thus is a “religion” whether it thinks so or not: Soviet “religion” and Maoist “religion” are as truly religious as are scientific and consumer “religion,” no matter how much they may try to disguise themselves by omitting religious and spiritual ideas from their lives.
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
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