I am driven by my emotions.

"Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego."

"But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. They therefore try to argue".

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/another-country

@histodons @psychology @socialpsych @ukraine @israel

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Hisham Matar: "Acrobatics […] so as not to name the crimes for what they are, but name some of them, so as to have named something"

Kate Greenberg: https://vashtimedia.com/translation-of-solidarity-amsterdam/ 🧶

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"Six months of liberal Zionist doublethink"

by Ben Reiff, an editor at #972Mag and #Vashti: https://vashtimedia.com/2024/04/12/formats/the-pickle/six-months-liberal-zionist-doublethink/ @supremacy

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"Let humanity perish rather than the principle! This has been the motto of utopians and fanatics throughout the ages. Socialism, interpreted in this way, has become a religion […] which in the nineteenth century is the least revolutionary of all."

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1851, in "Idée générale de la Révolution au XIXe siècle"

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"No one is wilfully evil. It is enough for a man to know what is good for him necessarily to do it."
For Socrates, the authentic practice of virtue presupposes knowing the essence of the Good.
"Know thyself" is therefore an invitation that means "discover the good that is in you; listen to the divinity that speaks to your conscience".

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