When you "buy" a book on Kindle, you own only the right to read it as long as you have an Amazon account. When your public library lends you an ebook, it isn't lending something it owns in the first place, but is actually sub-leasing.

Read: "The Anti-Ownership Ebook Economy" for some very, very bad news about your -- and your library's -- rights in the digital age. https://www.nyuengelberg.org/outputs/the-anti-ownership-ebook-economy/

Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.

— Nietzsche

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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

— Kierkegaard

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Demagogic tactics -
In an interview in 1969, the social philosopher Max Horkheimer highlights demagogic tricks, which can be summarized as follows: https://www.vnzn.de/en/2023/07/18/demagogic_tricks/

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