For in the last analysis, the thought and conscience of the individual man are the only thought and conscience there are…. There is, in literal truth, no public mind: there are only the minds of the persons composing the public. There is no public conscience; there are only their several consciences. Dry these functions up, or bind the life out of them, and all the mental and moral life of the public is stopped at its source.
— William Ernest Hocking, The Future of Liberalism [1935] |
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| November 1, 2022
Dissolve the Pentagon for Its Nuclear Antics
If the Pentagon’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine somehow turns nuclear and both Russia and the United States hit each other with their entire nuclear arsenals, I wonder how Americans who supported the Pentagon in the crisis would react. I’m referring, of course, to those Americans who would survive the nuclear onslaught. Most, if not all, of them, would undoubtedly be radiated. And … |
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