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Islamic Terrorism in Paris and Charlie Chaplin’s Hitler Ballet
It occurs to me this evening that Charlie Chaplin’s classic globe dance, as a means of trying to enter and represent visually the psyche of Hitler, is curiously apropos to the why question surrounding Paris tonight. The idea of violently … Continue reading
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Tagged Charlie Chaplin, enlightenment, Hitler, Islam, jihad, Paris, terrorism
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The New Hitler Youth of India
With India’s rise on the global stage, it would seem valuable to know the attitudes of its most elite educated teenagers, and Dilip D’Sousa at the Daily Beast reports that a not inconsiderable number of them harbor fascist sentiments: My … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, fascism, herderianism, Hinduism, Hitler, India, Islam, nationalism, Pakistan, the future
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Which Germany would you like to live in? Luther’s, Hitler’s, or Habermas’s?
In thinking about what worldviews are broadly contending for the human future, it occurs to me that Germany, over the past 500 years, has basically passed through the three key ones: The religious civilizational vision. This is embodied today by contemporary fundamentalists … Continue reading
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Tagged Germany, history, Hitler, jurgen habermas, Martin Luther, philosophy, Politics, the Enlightenment, the future
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Eugenics Revival Watch: Scientific American editor, Mariette DiChristina, calls eugenic goals expressed in 1911 “lofty aspirations”
Curiously, the editor at the Scientific American website (Mariette DiChristina) recently approved the posting, with only minimal comment, of an editorial written in its pages 100 years ago, in 1911, advocating eugenics. Here are three quotes from the editorial: It is not … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, biology, Darwin, eugenics, genetics, Hitler, jerry coyne, Nietzsche, Richard Dawkins, science, scientific american
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A delicious deconstruction of John Gray by A.C. Grayling
Of John Gray’s Black Mass, A.C. Grayling writes that the book: tells us that the world is in a bad way and that there is nothing we can do about it. Perhaps we can infer from this that his aim … Continue reading
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Tagged a.c. grayling, atheism, Christianity, Hitler, John Gray, progress, reason, science, secular humanism, stalin, the myth of progress
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Author Mitch Horowitz Says Adolf Hitler was Not an Occultist
And an Alternet reviewer of Horowitz’s new book on occultism says that he’s persuasive on this score: He convincingly knocks down the trendy idea that the Third Reich was an occult phenomenon. “However tantalizing some may find it to conceive of … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, Darwin, evolution, Hitler, Nietzsche, occult, occultism, religion, the Holocaust, theosophy
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Did Ben Stein, in His Film “Expelled”, Exaggerate the Link Between Darwin and Hitler?
I would say that Ben Stein exaggerated, but not by a lot. There is a hidden gnosis unveiled by the mechanism of evolution that constitutes a temptation to the human species. Once we have a mechanism for the improvement of a species—once … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Ben Stein, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwin, eugenics, evolution, Genesis, genetics, Hitler, science, the future
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Bearing Witness to the Holocaust: The View from Anne Frank’s Window (July 22, 1941)
Amsterdam’s Anne Frank House recently put on YouTube rare footage of Anne Frank leaning out of a window to get a look at a newly married couple in her neighborhood: And here’s Anne Frank, at a younger age, in a group photo: … Continue reading
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Tagged anne frank, bergen-belsen, death, experience, fascism, Hitler, innocence, Judaism, life, the Holocaust, windows
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Can Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution Make You an Intellectually Fulfilled Nihilist?
Richard Dawkins has famously said that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution has made him, not just an atheist, but “an intellectually fulfilled atheist.” In other words, by mixing a scientific theory with an ideology, Dawkins has found that his strict … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, Albert Camus, atheism, atheist, Charles Darwin, evolution, Hitler, philosophy, Richard Dawkins
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“Hitler’s Children”: Master Race Babies Have a Reunion
Darwinian eugenics is making a serious comeback. We better start thinking about it again—hard. Here’s a reminder of how all that went the first time around:
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Tagged ethics, eugenics, freedom, genetic technology, God, Hitler, philosophy, racism
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Today’s Orwellism: “Procreative Beneficience” (for Eugenics)
Julian Savulescu has a new term for eugenics: procreative beneficience. And according to Oxford Today: The University Magazine, eugenics—I mean procreative beneficience—may be making a comeback in academic circles: ‘There is a significant chance that my own children will live beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged China, ethics, eugenics, genes, Hitler, Julian Savulescu, philosophy, procreative beneficience
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Genetically Enhanced Humans?
According to Oxford Today: The University Magazine, they’re coming: ‘There is a significant chance that my own children will live beyond the age of 120’, says Julian Savulescu, Director of Oxford’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. ‘Thereafter we could be … Continue reading
Who Said This?
Was the following said by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Darwin, or Hitler: Power is in nature the essential measure of right. Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdoms which cannot help itself. Answer: Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Self Reliance” … Continue reading
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