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The swirl of their buzzwords—“access,” “stigma,” “progressive,” “diversity,” “crisis,” etc.—shows a discernible pattern. What these innumerable buzzwords have in common is that they either (1) preempt issues rather than debate them, (2) set the anointed and the benighted on different moral and intellectual planes, or (3) evade the issue of personal responsibility.
The Vision of the Anointed
Thomas Sowell
“There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing.”
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
So in the 15th and 16th hundreds, it pretended it was religion, and you had a huge flourishing of things like Rosicrucianism which pretended to be Christian. Swedenborgianism or whatever, which pretended to be Christian Kabbalah. Kabbalah, which pretended to be Christian and Jewish. Everybody thinks it's just Jewish, it was both, you have all these kinds of weird sects latching onto the major religion. Swabian pietism was Lutheranism by name, but it was hermeticism in practice.
The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay
Sovereign Nations
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