I think it's true - the reaction most of us feel against a Bad Other is stronger than our impulse to pursue any Good; at least when it comes to cooperating with other people.
It's significant, too, that he wrote this in the middle of Cold War polarization and not long after the Second World War.
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A quotation from Aldous Huxley
All propaganda directed against an opposing group has but one aim: to substitute diabolical abstractions for concrete persons. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. By robbing them of their personality, he puts them outside the pale of moral obligation. Mere symbols can have no rights — particularly when that of which they are symbolical is, by definition, evil.Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
Essay (1936), “Words and Behaviour,” The Olive Tree, and Other Essays
More about this quote: wist.info/huxley-aldous/14957/
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All propaganda directed against an opposing group has but one aim: to substitute diabolical abstractions for concrete persons. The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. By robbing them of their personality, he puts them outside the pale of…
“The military-industrial-complex has grown into a monster so influential and powerful that even its earliest critics likely never foresaw its evolution. Where will it go from here, and can anything stop it? Bill Hartung tackles this question.”—The Chris Hedges Report
The Trillion Dollar War Machine (w/ William D. Hartung) | The Chris Hedges Report >
https://youtu.be/4mxti7sPPD0?si=vWWQv5Tl2Hvf4h9m
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: I’m writing a fund-raising letter. The secret to getting donations is to depict everyone who disagrees with you as the enemy. Then you explain how they’re systematically working to destroy everything you hold dear. It’s a War of Values! Rational discussion is hopeless! Compromise is unthinkable! Our only hope is well-funded antagonism, so we need your money to keep up the fight!Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-07-07)
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Hej Smol Loki, you heard also what the human was listening to? About a movie some humans made 50y ago about a gigantic evil shark hunting humans? And that humans have been describing sharks as devils for as long humans can write?
Yeah, Smol Loki, if humans can't even face the truth about sharks, how can they ever face the truth about themselves?
“It was bigotry then, it’s bigotry now.”
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xed5MI6rcwQ
Texan constituent calls out GOP for hate for trans community: "Don't y'all ever get tired of being on the wrong side of history?”
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Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist
Column (1925-03-29), “Weekly Article”
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/rogers-will/76493/
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As Brian Stelter notes, Dartmouth political science professor characterizes the video of Trump goons deporting those they rounded up and sent to El Salvador as follows:
"Truly fascist propaganda."
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https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/1742215314850852cfe93a996/raw
"The photos and videos of humans beings to whom this is done are dehumanizing, and deliberately so. …
This deportation was planned as a political spectacle. The deportees were carefully chosen, as was the language used to describe them. The messaging was obviously coordinated in advance. And the entire humiliating procedure was carried out before cameras that were already in place."
But my 401(k)!
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"You do not know who was on those two planes to El Salvador. The individuals who arranged the deportation claim that the deportees were 'foreign alien terrorists,' but we have no way of knowing whether this is true. They also claim that they were 'monsters,' which is not true. We do not know the names of the human beings who were deported."
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