Paul John Moscatello

The one thing … that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controvers...

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You may never have met a professional hypnotist. You may never have been formally hypnotized. But if you have accepted an idea - from yourself, your teachers, your parents, friends, advertisement...

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Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you. Richard Dawkins

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People sometimes imagine that just because they have access to so many newspapers, radio and TV channels, they will get an infinity of different opinions. Then they discover that things are just ...

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A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. Umberto Eco, The Screen Educati...

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The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women,...

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The “pathology of normalcy” rarely deteriorates to graver forms of mental illness because society produces the antidote against such deterioration. When pathological processes become socially...

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We will gradually become indifferent to what goes on in the minds of other people when we acquire a knowledge of the superficial nature of their thoughts, the narrowness of their views and of the...

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As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions are highly addictive and far easier to indulge in (...

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Where men are forbidden to honor a king, they honor millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; ...

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We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests. Henry Miller

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. J. Krishnamurti

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Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo. W. H. Auden

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We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the poll...

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In 1976, Stephen King published a short story, “I Know What You Need,” about the courting of a young woman. Her suitor was a young man who could read her mind but did not tell her so. He simp...

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We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the conten...

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Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted. Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junki...

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You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller

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Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy. Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte...

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Forget the politicians. They’re put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all th...

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