“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” ~Frank Herbert, Dune
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It is necessary to repeat the truth over and over again, because the falsehoods around us are also being constantly repeated, not by individuals but by the masses, in newspapers and encyclopedias, in the schools and at the universities. Everywhere, falsehood is on top, comfortable and secure in the knowledge that the majority is on its side.
| — | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
Read the rest at http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla! Apparently tumblr has max height for posts. Ew.
Edison was such a dick. I knew a lot of this but not all of it…very interesting.
Yes, this belongs in politics…. because the political systems of the world should SUPPORT and NOURISH minds like Tesla.. that would finally be TRUE FUCKING PROGRESS!!!!
The anti-science think tank Heartland Institute has billboards comparing climate science believers and reporters to “mass murderers and madmen” like bin Laden, and the Unabomber.
Seriously!
Andrew Sullivan weighs in and calls this “a brutalist style of public propaganda that focuses entirely on guilt by the most extreme association.”
… what the fuck.
I know there is bad science and big money on both sides of this debate. Both sides are wrong. Both sides are right. But fearmongering like this is NOT a debate, in fact it is a surrender, because one side has stopped using logic and conversation and they have started using fear. I would note, at the same time, that both sides have been using MORE fear than SCIENCE for a very long time, and this billboard is simply an ESCALATION of the fear they are trying to generate.
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STOP
You are not a machine. Your natural genetic design does not tolerate 2-4 hours of travel per day, 8-12 hours of slave-labor 5-6 days per week for whatever monetary compensation on 5-6 hours of sleep in a system built on penalistic principle and a life under judgmental surveillance.
Like it or not you are human.
Stress, harassment, constant financial worries, fear and a sense of inadequacy destroys the health of any human.
This is a scientific fact.
So why is it we accept and tolerate a system that in actual reality demands that you erase your needs, and in effect commit a slow joyless suicide, for someone elses profit?
You have a choice.
Stop pretending you don’t.