“I was in love with the book. In pure, ignorant defiance of the decree of the Iowa Writing School that controls almost all modern fiction, Galt tells without showing.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin discusses John Galt’s ANNALS OF THE PARISH
“[Galt’s] realism is hard-headed, his compassion is tough-minded, his humour contagious but tainted with the sense that chaos and catastrophe are never far away.”
The Dawn of a Mindful Universe A Manifesto for Humanity's Future by Marcelo Gleiser, 2023
An award-winning astronomer and physicist's spellbinding and urgent call for a new Enlightenment and the recognition of the preciousness of life using reason and curiosity—the foundations of science—to study, nurture, and ultimately preserve humanity as we face the existential crisis of climate change.
those in political and economic ruling classes and cadres are not just morally wrong. descriptively speaking, they are building up and defending literal shit.
@livinghell true, but from an #enlightenment perspective they don't make many mistakes actually. Sustaining greed, as the wealth of nation (Smith), treating poor just little better than people of color (Malthus population law, Kant and most were great racists). Defending private property like it would be an extended part of your body (Lock). Believing we would be lazy rapists waiting for victims (Rousseau comparing humans with lonely wolfs) and thus need a violent oppressor (Hobbes Leviathan) to bring peace, order and prosperity. Believing the invisible hand that naturally regulates the market would be Jewish (Fichte). And so on and so on. .....
"Alabama Supreme Court chief justice Tom Parker was downright gleeful.
He quoted Genesis in his sermon — I’m sorry, his concurring opinion — in the Alabama ruling that turned in vitro fertilization on its head by defining frozen embryos as children.
He quoted 17th century Dutch theologian Petrus Van Mastricht."