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Marx is the prophet, Marcuse is his interpreter, and Mao is the sword.
Explaining Postmodernism
Stephen R. C. Hicks
The writers of the 2001 videogame Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, presaged the absurd intellectual environment of the world wide web: “The untested truths spun by different interests continue to churn and accumulate … No one is invalidated, but nobody is right. Not even natural selection can take place here. The world is being engulfed in ‘truth.’ And this is the way the world ends. Not with a bang, but a whimper.”
How Individualism Created Our Postmodern Culture
Alexander Blum
As Jianhua’s father, a victim of the Cultural Revolution himself, kept telling his son, “A thing turns into its opposite if pushed too far.”
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
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