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In our own day […] there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

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Russell, Bertrand - Lecture (1949-01-30), "Individual and Social Ethics," Reith Lecture, "Authority and the Individual" No. 6, BBC Radio | WIST Quotations

In our own day [...] there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try…

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Kpop News Hub 2d ago

May Individual Rookie Idol Brand Reputation Rankings Announced #Announced #Brand #Idol #Individual #Rankings #Reputation #Rookie
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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦3d ago

“our singularity as #persons is not #individual in the atomistic sense, since it emerges from participation in others; on the other hand, it is never complete, because it is never free from further participations in new beings and objects …” aeon.co/essays/lucie...

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WIST Quotations Apr 30

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Unless a man has talents to make something of himself, freedom is an irksome burden. Of what avail is freedom to choose if the self be ineffectual? We join a mass movement to escape individual responsibility, or, in the words of the ardent young Nazi, “to be free from freedom.” It was not sheer hypocrisy when the rank-and-file Nazis declared themselves not guilty of all the enormities they had committed. They considered themselves cheated and maligned when made to shoulder responsibility for obeying orders. Had they not joined the Nazi movement in order to be free from responsibility?

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, Part 2, ch. 5, § 26 (1951)

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lobster Apr 14

Dear Friends off the olde cyberneti-neti,

As we may know:

1) AI is hear/listening to stay (bit like a rabid dawg on the turn)

2) The smarter/fitted up they look, the more of a #Matrix #swarm they are. As in a swarm of mega maga-bots

3) "Three is a magic number" Knot!

4) You are #sovereign. #Individual. Whatever the state

5) "Please look after this bare" lobster. I thank you

6) I come in #Peace. Some #assembly not required.

7) We are 'The #Garden'

In other word, do not believe the off switch is anything but a toggle. Dib-dib-dob. You have already been sold a pup. Nobody believes you. Nobody is a default mode. Well done.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 12

“Williams was describing the shift from #infrastructure that served everyone to #technologies built around the mobile, private #individual. The shift from railways to peptides is the shift from ‘we built this for everyone’ to ‘you can buy this for yourself’.” open.substack.com/pub/kyla/p/t...

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Kpop News Hub Apr 1

April Individual Rookie Idol Brand Reputation Rankings Announced #Announced #April #Brand #Idol #Individual #Rankings #Reputation #Rookie
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Awe & Wonder & Dream media Mar 27

https://omdaruliterature.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-diaries-of-evgeny-schwartz-as.html The Diaries of Evgeny Schwartz as a #Spiritual Lesson for 2026: The #Individual and the #State #spirituality #diaries , #Russian , #soviet , #literature, #internalémigré , #allegory, #fairytale, #testimony

Kpop News Hub Mar 25

WEi To Focus On Individual Activities For Time Being #Activities #Focus #Individual #Time #WEi
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WEi To Focus On Individual Activities For Time Being - KpopNewsHub – Latest K-Pop News, Idols & Korean Entertainment

WEi’s agency has made an announcement regarding the direction of the group’s future activities.

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Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Mar 25

1 #TorstenSlok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management: #AI is driving returns in #equitymarkets because of the growing size of #tech in the #S&P500 index, and this is a problem for both #institutional and #individual #investors 🧵

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One Factor Driving All Returns - Apollo Academy

AI is driving returns in equity markets because of the growing size of tech in the S&P 500 index, and...

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