Category: politics
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Left vs right and the third world war
The terms left-wing or right-wing where it pertains to politics come from the French National Assembly that was set up after the revolution in the summer of 1789. The anti-royalist revolutionaries seated themselves to the left of the assembly, and the traditionalists seated themselves on the right. Nowadays the terms are used to describe a…
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Being tolerant of intolerance
The philosopher Karl Popper wrote about the paradox of tolerance. In a nutshell, if we allow people who are intolerant to have a full voice then they will overwhelm the tolerant, and in the end our freedom of expression will be extinguished. There’s another view: Anyone can be tolerant of what they agree with, it’s…
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Groupthink
More and more nowadays people identify with a group: LBGQ, Atheist, Christian, anti-trump, pro-Trump etc. The problem with this is that having identified with a group they have given up their own authenticity. I’ve seen may articles, for instance on Quora, where people who identify as Atheist talk about experiences they have had and then write…