Ricardo CS

“To give legal force to notions born in the café. I doubt there have been other periods in history when the masses came to govern more directly than in our time. That is why I speak of hyperdemocracy...
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The characteristic of the present moment is that the vulgar soul, knowing itself to be vulgar, has the audacity to affirm the right of vulgarity and imposes it everywhere. As they say in North America: to be different is indecent. The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select.”
― Ortega y Gasset José y Jesús Reyes Heroles

“Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal .”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss reason, science, objective reality and to insist that everything is culturally relative. More importantly, the leftist hates science and rationality because they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist’s feelings of inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any classification of some things as successful or superior and other things as failed or inferior. This also underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human abilities or behavior because such explanations tend to make some persons appear superior or inferior to others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or blame for an individual’s ability or lack of it. Thus if a person is “inferior” it is not his fault, but society’s, because he has not been brought up properly.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“It's easier to imagine the death of one person than those of a hundred or a thousand. When multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It's not easy to be moved by abstract things.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The War of the End of the World