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Furthermore, under this line of thinking, one could extrapolate that a right-wing journey would gravitate toward no government (anarchy), while a left-wing journey would navigate toward total government. This possibility calls into question the integrity of the old left-right dichotomy, meaning that the old, circular, horseshoe theory or U-turn spectrum (pitting fascism and communism as polar opposites) is either broken, a complot of historical sabotage, or simply an invention of pure fallacy. Such bending is absurd, at best, or dangerous, at worst. Why? Because if totalitarianism is positioned on the circular ends of both left and right, then “the political spectrum teaches us that opposites are the same and the same are opposites.”[155] Such absurdity fogs the mind with uncertainty and confusion; reality becomes nearly impossible to identify or define. And without clarity, how can anyone determine what is true or false?
Killing History
L.K. Samuels
»Es werden alle Sektoren (Strom, Verkehr und Wärme) zusammen betrachtet. Und siehe da: 80 Prozent des Energiebedarfs werden in Deutschland heute fossil gedeckt, 7,5 Prozent durch Kernkraft, 13 Prozent durch erneuerbare Energien. Wenn man bei den Erneuerbaren das Wasser und die Biomasse (einschließlich Biogas und Biosprit) abzieht, bleiben übrig: 1,5 Prozent der Primärenergie werden durch Windkraft erzeugt, 1 Prozent durch Fotovoltaik (Seite 10 der Studie). Zusammen ergibt das 2,5 Prozent Wind- und Sonnenenergie – wahrlich noch ein langer Weg bis zu 100 Prozent.«
Vom Verlust Der Freiheit
Raymond Unger
The driving force of eugenics was not merely racism or bogus theories of genetic fitness for living a full life, as the American Society of Human Genetics claims. The core was a broader assertion that one scientific consensus should override human choice. And that consensus implausibly centered on issues of human health: one central agency knew the way forward whereas regular people and their choices in life represented a non-compliance threat.
Eugenics, Then and Now
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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