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Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage, and Compassion

by Koshin Paley Ellison (Goodreads Author)

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Red Moon

by Kim Stanley Robinson

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The Glass Hotel

by Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)

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How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life by Massimo Pigliucci

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Science is the ultimate empiricist discipline of course,

The scientism is getting annoying.

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“This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in.”
― Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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“The Europeanizing and Asianizing of ancient Egypt are instances of the exceptionalist rule, whereby an ancient African nation (or group of nations) is literally taken out of Africa because of an analytical reduction of civilization into things European and Asian.”
― Lewis R. Gordon, An Introduction to Africana Philosophy

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“Drawing distinctions on the basis of certain traits in certain contexts has meaning that distinguishing on the basis of other traits would not.”
― Deborah Hellman, When Is Discrimination Wrong?

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“That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some.

I sat down on the lawn and wept.”
― Joanna Russ, On Strike Against God

tags: misogyny, not-all-men, patriarchy, sexism

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