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John nicholas gray (born on april 17 1948)-this is an english political philosopher with interests in analytical philosophy and diane chrystall farts the history of ideas. He resigned as a school professor of european thought in the london school of the economic situation and political science. Gray systematically contributes to the guardian, the times literation dizement and another statesman in which he remains a leading reviewer of the book. @> 1.2. A modest sentence (2003) 1.3 black mass: apocalyptic faith and the death of utopia (2007) 1.4 the atheist blusion (2008) one and a half. The destructive point in the fall of the united states of america from the authorities (2008 (2008) 1.6 anatomy gray: the chosen scriptures (2009) 1.7 commission on immortality: a strange desire to deceive death (2011) 1.8 of animal silence: by animals: on progress and other modern myths (2013) 1.9 soul marionette: a short investigation to human freedom (2015) 1.10 friedrich hayek, who i knew, and what he understood with knowledge and incorrectly (2015)

- To prove that people flourish in various ways, does not mean that there are universal human values. And also does not reject the statement that there may be universal human rights. This should deny that universal values are firmly implemented exclusively in universal mode. The rights of any of people can be respected in all regimes, liberal and other. The universal human rights are not an ideal constitution for one regime around the world, but a set of minimal standards for peaceful coexistence among the regimes, because they will remain different. Two faces of liberalism (new press, 2000, isbn 0-745-62259-3. 168 pages), ch. 1: liberal tolerance (p. 21) 

- I, probably not very unambiguously hostile to capitalism, like many of us, but i do not like personal experience, it turns all in actors. - It is quoted in will self: “john gray: forget the fact that the viewer is introduced on the course of business,“ independent ”(2002-09-03) 

- What i liked, it was the bolshevik aspect of tatchevis, which was supposed to get in the whole britain quite fundamentally, and if you read the song that i wrote in those years, i think that you can agree with the fact that i have done the opinion that i did then it was necessary and it is advisable - i did not at all subscribe to the main misconception of the tatcherites that the fact that you are able to change everything is accumulated, and everyone will remain the same. In the event that you want a very anarchist, globalized polyglot, a mixed society, where most structures that were somehow updated from the edwarding period to the sixties were destroyed, then thattheryism is necessary only. - Quoted in will self, “john gray: forget all the subtleties you are informed”, “independent” (2002-09-03) 

- The core of faith in progress is reduced to the fact that human values and goals converge with our growing knowledge. The twentieth century shows the opposite. The population uses the power of scientific facts to approve and protect the values and honor that they already have. Information technologies and all kinds of gadgets can be used to simplify sentiments and increase freedom. They can and will be used to carry out battle and strengthen tyranny. Science has made possible methods, which controlled a peculiar revolution. In the 20th century, these technologies were used to conduct state terror and genocide on an unprecedented scale. Ethics and politics are not advanced in accordance with the growth of knowledge - and in the long run. - “Joseph conrad, our contemporary”, from heresy: against progress and liver of illusions (2004) 

- Terror is not now if it would have ever, the fact that it comes. To us from the outside. These are the details of the society where we were born. Both liberals and neoconservatives think that terrorism happens considered, removing its causes. True, less encouraging. Al-qaeda mutated into a decentralized, often local-based type of apocalyptic terrorism and here it seems to be a formidable impulse. “Analyze the enemy inside”, “observer” (2005-07-10) 

-If you want to understand the beliefs that form a global policy, read the revelation book of revelation: the sacred causes of michael berley (2006-10-28) 

Blair was a modern person with whom he claims: for him a sense of subjective confidence is everything that is present: for action, to be correct. If a deception is needed to ensure providential design, it is not able to be really deceptive. “Unaccounted!: How blair took a new work for the trip”, “independent” (2007-06-22) 

-Liberals tend to consider the queen's subjects as an insult to their dignity.But, at least, the archaic structures that we ruled do not force us to determine ourselves with blood, soil or faith, and our employees are insured from the toxic identity policy. 29) 

-The result of the overthrow of tyranny in divided countries most often is the civil war and ethnic cleaning. “The death of this crackpot creed has nothing to mourn”, the guardian (2007-07-31) 

-The very moment as a marxist faith in central planning is now limited by several dirty sex, quasi-religious belief on open markets continues to form a government policy. Many authors pointed to chaos and violations that accompanied the imposition of free markets in many countries of the world. Whether in africa, in the eastern states, latin america or post -communist europe, the policy of wholesale privatization and structural adaptation led to a decrease in economic activity and public deployment on a scale. 

The world, as the representatives of mankind we know, “the guardian (2007-09-15) 

-The whole world is in a sense cooler than than earlier in the distant past. And indeed, i am aiming, for enthusiastic people their life really depends on this faith. If you yourself will understand this hope for progress, if you begin to reflect on the world around him, where the ancient pre -christian europeans, or buddhists, did it, and besides hindus or taoa of the celestial empire, many believe that this can be said to be a despair of the field, i do not know how many times how many times they diverged me: “if i thought about this, john, i would not get up in the morning and“ if i agreed with you, john, this story did not have similar, such a kind, i would not get up in the morning. ” I said: "well, stay in sex a little longer, you have the opportunity to find the best reason for getting up." -Cits in john gray at the writers' festival, part 1 "," philosophical zone ", discussion with alan sonders on abc radio national (2008-06-28) 

-Their minds , related to the fashionable nonsense about globalization, western leaders cautiously say that liberal democracy is too little. Reality continues the political diversity. Republics, empires, liberal and non -liberal democracies and a rich spectrum of authoritarian regimes will be with our company in the near future. Globalization is natural that the other, as the industrialization of the planet, and the growing resource nationalism has become a mandatory component of the process. (So: accelerates climate change, but this is a different story.) As the state industrialization that controls natural resources spread, these portals use their strategic goals in the ranking of their strategic goals. “Madness of the progressive fairy tale”, “observer” (2008-09-08) 

- The usa- it has bankrupt mortgage institutions and its giant military machine, which is effectively funded by foreign loans in cool decline. With his financial system in the worst mess since the 1930s, the ability of the west to form events is reduced every day. A preaching about “legislative international relations” is ridiculous after iraq, even at the bottom is not significantly more than nostalgia for the disappeared hegemony. -“Unconditional progressive fairy tale”, “observer” (2008-09-08) 

-The true goal of the bourgeois life, in other words, the process is not self-determination, but sabotage. A third of the day to sleep, a balanced organized divert of life: if they can find it). Life - the life of playboy, which does not fit the call - is just too demanding. “Complex business”, “new statesman” (2009-04-16) 

Straw dogs: thoughts about people and other animals (2002) [edit] 

Granta books, 2003, isbn 1-862-07596-4. 246 pages. 

- A lot of people today think, in fact, that they belong to the class, which will be the master of his fate. This is faith, but not science. People are not talking about the time when whales or gorillas will be the masters of their fate. Why then people? - Man: science against humanism (p. 3) 

- If darwin’s discovery was made in a taoist or shinto, hindu or animist culture, this is 90%, it will only be the only one of more direct in such a interweaving of mythologies. In such beliefs, citizens and other animals are related. Great because of this, arising among christians who put people beyond the boundaries of any other living beings, this caused a bitter polemic that is raging today. - Man: science against humanism (pp. Three quarters) 

- The destruction of the world of nature cannot be considered the result of global capitalism, industrialization, "western civilization" or any drawback in human institutions. This is the result of the evolutionary success of an exclusively predatory primate. Throughout the plot and background, human advance coincided with environmental devastation.- Man: distributed primatemaia (p. 7) 

- The population growth that has occurred over the past few hundred years. The number of rabbits, pants and the plague of rats. As cartoons - it can only be short -lived. - Man: primatemaia (p. 9) 

- The pogroms are as old as christian; but without the presence of railways, telegraph and toxic gas did not have the opportunity to be the holocaust. There were always tyranny; but without modern means of transport and contact, stalin and mao could not build their gulags. - Man: why humanity will definitely not master technology (p. 14) 

Cities are no more artificial than bee hives. The internet is the same natural as a spider network. As margulis and sagan wrote, our company remain technological devices invented by ancient bacterial communities as a means of genetic survival: “we cooperate with part of the branched network, emanating from the initial bacterial absorption of the earth. Our energies and intelligence do not belong to the office, moreover, for the whole life. ” - Man: green humanism (p. 16) 

- The mass of mankind controls not its intermittent moral sensations, very few because of personal interests, but the needs of the moment. - Man: green humanism (p. 17) 

- Religious fundamentalists consider themselves possessing funds from diseases of the current realities. In fact, they will be symptoms of the disease that they pretend to be eliminated. They hope to restore non -reflex hope for traditional cultures, but this is especially modern fantasy. We are not ready to believe as you like; our beliefs are traces left by our impressive lives. Taste is not what can be caused, because if we persuade. - Man: against fundamentalism - religious and scientific (p. 18) 

- Scientific fundamentalists assure that science is an unknown thirst for truth. But the idea of science in this way is to ignore the employees of the science of a person. In the world, science meets two needs: for hope and censorship. Today, only science supports the myth of progress. If people cling to hope for progress, this is not only a genuine belief, how much from fear to what can happen if they give it. The political projects of the twentieth century failed or reached several times lower, which they promised. That hour progress in science is a daily experience, confirmed every time we acquire a new electronic gadget, or accept a new tool. Science gives us a sense of progress that ethical and political life is not able to. - Man: against fundamentalism, religious and scientific (p. 18-9) 

- Again, science can shut up heretics. Today it is a rational institution, which can claim authority. Like the church in the distant past, it has the power to destroy or marginalize independent thinkers. (Think about how orthodox medicine reacted to freud, and the orthodox darwitzes to catch.) In fact, science does not have any fixed picture of things, but, subjecting to censorship of thinkers who are so far from the popular orthodox field - a person: against fundamentalism - religious and scientific (p. 19) 

- According to the most influential philosopher of science of the twentieth century, karl popper, the theory is necessarily to what extent he is subject to falsification, and concrete should be refused as soon as it is falsified . Thanks to this standard, the theory of darwin and einstein have not yet been forced to be obtained. - Man: the irrational origin of science (p. 22) 

- Modern humanism is a faith that, with the help of science, humanity can know the truth - and therefore be free. But in the event that the theory of natural selection of darwin is true, this is difficult. The human mind serves as evolutionary success, not truth. - Man: true and complications (p. 26) 

- Under any circumstances, only a number of tourists are wonderful in the life of human society can believe that the rivalry between ideas has the opportunity to lead to a triumph truth. Of course, ideas compete among themselves, but winners, usually with power and human stupidity on their side. When the medieval church destroyed the cathars, did catholic memes prevailed over the memes of heretics? If a positive decision was made to the conclusion, would this demonstrate the inferiority of jewish memes? - Man: true and complications (p. 26-7) 

- A lover who promises eternal fidelity, is more likely to believe in that situation, if he himself believes his promise; he is no more inclined to keep his promise. - Man: true and complications (p. 27) 

Science unambiguously cannot be used for the most part to implement the truth or to strengthen our life.The use of knowledge will always be as displacement and crooked as people themselves. People use the statement that the series know to realize their most urgent needs - in the case when the result is destroyed. - Man: true and consequences (p. 28) 

- Science does not exist to change our race in a more rational form. Any new humanity will reproduce only familiar deformations of their designers. It is strange to assume that science can apply the basis for the irrational world, when hacking, what a page can do, this is the following turn for ordinary madness. - Man: true and danger (p. 28) 

- ... Gaia's idea is most clearly expected in the line from tao-te ching, the oldest taoist scripture of the field of ancient chinese rituals straws dogs were used as the offerings of the gods. During the ritual they were treated with great reverence. When you ended, and they no longer needed, they were trampled and discarded: "heaven and earth are ruthless, and relate to many creatures as straw dogs." If people violate the balance of the earth, they can be trampled and thrown aside. Critics of gaia's theory write that they reject this, because it is unscientific. The truth is that they are afraid and hate it, therefore, what means that they should never be, except for straw dogs. - Human: straw dogs (p. 33-4) 

- As usual, philosophy is an attempt to find good reason for simple beliefs. During the time of kant, the religion of ordinary people was a christian, now he is a humanist. These two faiths are completely different from one another. Over the past 200 years, philosophy got rid of the christian faith. He did not abandon the radical mistake of christianity - the belief that people are radically different from all other animals. > - Our routine is more similar to fragmented dreams, by this to the adoption of conscious self. We are very little controling that which concerns us the most; a number of the above most fatal decisions are made without knowledge. Nevertheless, we insist that humanity can reach the phenomena, that our confectioners are not ready: the conscious skill of its promotion. This is the religion of those who abandoned the irrational faith in god in the irrational hope of humanity. - Deception: on a ball in masks (p. 38) 

- Like many philosophers, kant worked to cement the usual beliefs of his timing. Schopenhauer did the opposite. Accepting the arguments of hume and kant about everything that the world is incomprehensible, he came to the conclusion that as a microcosm an individual object, which imagines that the player is aware that the design of maya, fairy -tale structures without reality in reality. ... Schopenhauer accepted the skeptical side of kant's philosophy and turned it against him. Kant demonstrated that we were trapped in the world of phenomena and cannot know something in ourselves. Schopenhauer took another step forward and saw that we belong to the world of appearance with our own hands. Unlike kant, schopenhauer was ready to ride his own thoughts, wherever they were conducted. Kant admitted that if we do not admit that our company is autonomous, freely choosing ourselves, we cannot understand our moral experience. Schopenhauer replied that our real experience is not for free choice of how we exist, but there, in order to remain in the know of our bodily interests - fear, hunger and, above all, sex. - Deception: the essence of schopenhauer (p. 42-3) 

- Our intellects cannot be considered impartial observers of the world, but active gamers in this section. They form a view of this that helps us in our struggle. Among the imaginary constructions created by the intelligence adopted in the control of the will, perhaps the most lost, this is the point of view, then he leaves a person for himself - as continuing, united people. - Deceit: the essence of schopenhauer (p. 44) 

- Nietzsche was introduced by a religious thinker, incessant attacks on christian beliefs and values confirm that a person will never find the reason to get rid of them turned off. - Deception: nietzsche optimism (p. 45) 

- Neither in the ancient pagan world, nor in any other culture, someday it was believed that human history had no comprehensive significance . In greece and rome, it was a series of biological cycles of a revival and decrease. In india, it was a collective dream, endlessly repeating. The idea that history should make sense: it is just a christian prejudice. In the case when you believe that users are a beast - not to be any thing, like the history of mankind, only the life of many people. If we generally talk about the history of the species, then this is only then to mean an unknowable sum of these lives. As in the event of similar animals, some lives are happy, others wretched.Not one is fundamentally that is outside of itself. I am looking for a matter in history - it is identical to look for patterns in the sky. - Deception: nietzsche optimism (p. 47-8) 

Postmodernists paratite their relativism as excellent humility - modest recognition, which we are not able to say that there is truth. In fact, the postmodern denial of truth is the worst appearance of arrogance. Denying that the world of nature exists regardless of our beliefs that postmodernists indirectly reject any limit of human ambitions. Having made human beliefs with the final arbitrator, they practically claim that nothing exists, if a sort of one is in modern consciousness. - Deception: postmodernism (p. 54-55) 

- Philosophers have always tried to show that we are not like other animals, uncertainly sniffing their path through the world. However, after all the work of plato and spinoza, descartes and bertrand russell, the company will not have higher reasons than the competitors of animals, believing that the sun will rise tomorrow. - Deception: the faith of animals (p. 55) 

- It is important that nothing resembling platonism in this country to avoid. The classic chinese script is not ideographic, as they thought before; however, due to the fact that a.S. Graham calls “a combination of graphic wealth with phonetic poverty”, everything was not encouraged by the fact that the abstract thinking that caused the philosophy of plato. Plato was that historians of philosophy call a realist - he believed that abstract terms denote spiritual or intellectual entities. On the contrary, throughout its long history, chinese thought was nominalist - she realized that even the most abstract terms are just labels, just in case of goods in the world, just in case. In the end, chinese thinkers rarely take ideas for facts. The heritage of plato for european thought was the trio of the capital letters - good, beautiful and true. The wars were waged, and the tyrants were made, the cultures were ruined, and the peoples were exterminated in the service of these abstractions. Europe owes its murderous history to the errors of thinking generated by the alphabet. - Deceit: plato and the alphabet (p. 57-8) 

- The inevitable character with whom schopenhauer, and sometimes konrad believed that all people were born, could not exist; but we are not able not to look into ourselves in order to explain the fact that our company is doing. All that we find is fragments, like a memoirs of a novel that we read sooner or later. - Deception: lord jim's jump (p. 68) 

- Even the deepest contemplation only reminds us of us for unreality. To see that i myself, in order to remain illusory, does not mean that i see it with something else. It is more like a dream. To see yourself like fruits, it means awakening, not reality, but to a clear dream, false awakening, which has no end. - Deceit: cherined dream (p. 79) 

- We are not able to get rid of illusions. An illusion is a russian natural state. Why not accept this? - Deception: ultimate dream (p. 81) 

- Sometimes they ask why western observers are so slowly learning the truth about our country. The reason is not what was not easy to find. It was clear from a huge number of books that survived the emigrant, and from the statements of the soviets themselves. But the facts were very inconvenient for western observers to admit. For the sake of their spiritual peace, they had to deny absolutely everything they knew or suspected to become true. Like tasman aborigines, but they could not see the high ships that laid an end, these bysse pence could not force themselves to see that the desire for progress ended in mass murder. ... What is a special last century is not the moment that the player is littered with massacres. This is the scale of his murders and the nuance that other measures were intentional for the sake of huge projects of world improvement. - The cost of morality: nonances of a person’s life (p. 95-6) 

- Today almost everyone read that the inequality is wrong. A century ago everyone knew that the gay sext was wrong. Intuition that people have on moral issues are very felt. They are also small and transient to the last degree .... Justice is an artifact of custom. In the place where the customs is upset, its dictates soon become dated. The ideas of justice are as eternal as the fashion in hats. - Moral standards: impartiality and fashion (p. 102-3) 

Freud taught that for every person kindness or cruelty, having a sense of justice or did not have enough of it, depended in accidents childhood. Each of us we know a lot about work and we understand that this is true, but this fact is contrary to the moment that we are talking, we believe. We are not ready to cancel pretense, what to be the best is that someone is able to achieve.If we organized, we would have to admit that, like beauty and thoughts, good is a gift of good luck. We should meet that in those parts of our life we are most treated with him, free will - this is an illusion. - Morality: psychoanalysis and moral luck (p. 104) 

- Caring for yourself, as everything is in the near future, is no more reasonable than the care of oneself today is today . - The cost of morality: weakness for prudence (p. 105) 

- In the greek world in which homer's songs were performed, it was taken for granted, so that the being of anyone is controlled by fate and possibility . For homer, human life is the continuity of force majeure cases: all available things are vulnerable to good luck. Socrates could not accept this archaic tragic vision. He believed that virtue and happiness was only to choose what exactly, and the same: what else could damage a really good person. Thus, he rethought that in order to collect him indestructible. In addition to the goods of our life - health, fashion, pleasure, friendship, life itself was good that surpassed these gama. In plato, this became the idea of a form of good, a mystical merger of all values into a harmonious spiritual whole-an idea, later absorbed in the christian concept of god. The idea that ethics is caused by some value that goes beyond the framework of force majeure, which can be as it can -this to specifically prevail due to different breeds of loss or misfortune, came from socrates. This was the one who is the inventor of "moral." - Moral visits: socrates, the inventor of morality (p. 106) 

- Moral philosophy is largely a branch of books. Despite this, the philosopher has not yet written an excellent novel. This fact does not have to be amazing. In philosophy, the truth of human being is not of interest. - Morality vices: immoral immorality (p. 109) 

- We are not the authors of our being, we are not even an obligatory part of objects that note us the most deeply. Almost absolutely everything that is extremely important in our everyday life has not been removed. Hour and place, here we were born, our parents, the first language we are talking about is a prospect, not a choice. This is a random drift of things that provides our most fatal relationship. The life of each of us is the head of accidents. - Moral vices: the choice of a fetish (p. 109-110) 

- In taoist thought, a good life comes spontaneously; but spontaneity is far from an innocent action on the impulses that arise for us. In western traditions, such as romanticism, spontaneity is associated with subjectivity. In taoism, this implies that it acts impartially, based on an objective look at the situation at hand. The average member of society does not observe things objectively, because his mind is overshadowed by anxiety about achieving his goals. A vision clearly means not to project our priorities into the world; the action spontaneously means the action in accordance with the needs of the situation. Western moralists will ask what the purpose of this action, but for taoists a good life has no goal. It is like a journey into a whirlpool, responding to the currents when they come and go. “I enter with an influx and go out with an outflow, next to the path of vague and do not impose selfishness to her. This is how i stay afloat, ”says chuan-tzu. From this position, ethics is just a convenient skill, such as fishing or swimming. The core of ethics is overweight not a choice or conscious awareness, but the ability to know what to do. This is a skill that is carried out with practice and empty minds. - Moral vice: the advantages of animals (p. 113) 

- Autonomy means that i chose for the reasons that i chose; but the lesson of cognitive science is that there is no self to make a choice. We are much more like cars and wild animals than our company represent. However, we are not able to achieve immoral dedication of wild animals or a stop of automatism of machines. Perhaps we are able to learn how to live a lighter, less burdened morality. We are not able to turn to a purely spontaneous existence. If people are inferior to other animals, these are partly in the conflicts of their instincts. They want safety, but they are easily bored; they are peaceful animals, but in their arsenal itching for violence; they are involved in thinking, but at the same time they hate and fear that thinking brings nereti. There is no existence telegram - in which these needs are satisfied are satisfied. Fortunately, as the history of philosophy testifies, people have a gift to self -deception and flourish in the ignorance of their nature. - Moral visits: the virtues of animals (p. 115-6) 

- Today, because dozens of humanity, science and technology embody "miracle, secret and prestige." Science promises that the most ancient human fantasies will finally be realized.The disease and aging will be canceled; deficiency and poverty will now not become; the view will become immortal. As christianity before, the modern cult of science exists in the calculation of miracles. But to think that science can transform the human party means to believe in magic. Time responds to the illusion of humanism with reality: fragile, abnormal, dissatisfied with humanity. Despite the fact that you can minimize poverty and be a softened disease, science will be used to clarify tyranny and improve the art of war. - Unstable: the great inquisitor and flying fish (p. 123) 

- The truth that dostoevsky puts in ust. Secular religions of modern times tell us that people want to remain free; and this is true that such measures are restrained by diverse. However, rarely people value their freedom more than comfort, which is supplied with part -time work, and even less often, then that entire nations carry out this operation. - Unstable: the great inquisitor and flying fish (p. 123) 

- The needs that are satisfied with tyrants are as real as those that freedom is responsible for; sometimes they are more urgent. Tirans promise reliability and relieve clarification of everyday existence. Of course - this is just a confusing fantasy. Garnet's truth about tyranny is a life spent in hope. But tyrania’s long -term novel comes from her subjects promising her, more exciting than any that they can come up with for future viewing. - Unstable: the great inquisitor and flying fish p. 124). Secularism resembles chastity, a state determined by the fact that it denies. - Unstable: atheism, the last consequence of christianity (p. 126) 

Christianity that struck the root of the pagan tolerance of the illusion. Affirming that there can be only one true faith, it gave the truth the highest value that it had not had before. It also made disbelief in a divine possible for the first time. The long -standing delay of the consequences of the christian faith was an idolater of truth, which found its most complete expression in atheism. If we are in society without gods, there is christianity to thank for it. Atheism, the last investigation of a christian (p. 127) 

- The practical effects of the marxian-federal cult of technology were destructive. Inspired by materialistic philosophy, the soviet union caused a more far -reaching and long -term damage to the material environment than each regime in culture. The green land became a desert, and pollution rose to the levels dangerous for existence. No superiority for humanity was obtained by soviet destruction of nature. Soviet citizens lived no longer than people in other places - most of us are much smaller. - Unstable: nikolai federova, bolshevism and technological love for immortality (p. 138) 

- The most ruthless warriors against drugs were forever the fighting progressions. In china, the most wild attack on drug use occurred when the country was consulted by the modern western doctrine of universal emancipation - maoism. It is natural that at the moment the crusade against drugs is headed by a country prepared on pursuit of happiness - the united states. For the investigation of this incredible quest - puritan wrestling with pleasure. - Unstable: artificial paradise (p. 141) 

Jesus promised the resurrection of the body, and not the afterlife, as an incorporeal consciousness. However, the followers of jesus always humiliated the flesh. Their belief that people are noted from the rest of the creation, having an immortal soul, forced them to renounce the fate that they share with other animals. Noah-how are not able to reconcile their love for the body with the hope of immortality. When the information comes into conflict, this is definitely a flesh that rolls back. - Unstable: gnosticism and cybernauts 

- Everyone who really wants to avoid human solipsism is not guilty of looking for empty places. In addition to running to the desert that can be returned to their own thoughts, it will be better to find the company of other animals there. The zoo is the best window from which it is realistic to look from the human world than the monastery. - Unstable: a mirror of loneliness (p. 150-1) 

Progress is given. But still, faith in progress is superstition. Science allows people to realize their needs. You must admit, he does nothing to change them. The latter today are not at all, therefore, who were who were. There is progress in skills, but not for ethics. This is a verdict as a science, similarly to plots and a look at any of the religions of the world. The growth of knowledge is proven and - except for the world catastrophe - this day it is https://ffetish.video/ irreversible. Well -being in the government and company, at least real, but they are temporary. Nou-hau can not only be lost, but for sure.History is not progress or decrease, but repeating profit and loss. The onset of knowledge excites us, thinking that we are different from other animals, but our story shows that our employees are not. - Non-compliance: tooth pain de cuinsey (p. 155) 

- ... We are approaching the time when according to the moles, “absolutely all adults work to take a break in to others users. 'In rich countries, this period has already come. The old industries were exported to the developing world. Houses developed new specialties, replacing the professions of the industrial era. Many of them satisfy the needs that were suppressed or disguised in antiquity. The prosperous economy of psychotherapists, design religions and spiritual boutiques arose. There is also a huge gray economy of illegal industries that supply drugs and linoleum. The function of this new economy, legitimate and illegal, is to entertain and distract the population, which, although more than in the past before, secretly suspects, something is useless. Industrialization has created a working class. In our age of information technology, this made the working class outdated. If it is not interrupted by an ecological collapse, it will end the end to make the same for almost any. - Non-compliance: the irony of history (p. 160) 

- Today are doses of madness that hold us, are delivered by modern technologies. Each internet has an endless supply of virtual intimacy and violence. But how will it happen when new vices will end in our company? How will satiety and idleness be repelled when designer sex, drugs and violence will no longer be sold? At this moment, we offer to be sure that moral will gain fashion. Can we are not far from time when “morality” is sold as a new transgression brand. -Non-program: a billion of the balconies standing in front of the sun (p. 165-6) 

Marx imagined that the end of the deficit would bring the end of the story. He did not have time to force himself to see that the world was already achieved without a deficit - in prehistoric societies, that he and engels were united as “primitive communism”. The gatherers were less burdened with labor than the majority of mankind at any more last stage, but their rare communities were completely dependent on the earth's award. A natural disaster is able to erase them at all times. Marx was not able to accept a restriction, it was the cost of freedom of hunting gatherers. Instead, animated by the confidence that people are destined to master the land, he insisted that freedom from labor happened to be achieved without any requirements - on their mood. These were only the brothers of the apocalyptic fantasy of a free spirit, returning as a utopia of education. -Non-program: anti-capitalists of the 20th century, phalanx and medieval brothers of the spirit (p. 167-8) 

-Consciousness appeared in the evolutionary background as a side effect of the language. In the current realities, this is a by -product of the media. - Non-compliance: the theory of consciousness (p. 171) 

- The theories of modernization are scientific projections of the meanings of enlightenment. They agree, do not report anything about the future. But what helps us understand the present. They show the prolonged power of the christian faith that history is a moral drama, outlines of progress or redeeming, in which - despite absolutely everything that you know about this is the moral of the rule to the world. - Non-graph: the myth of modernization (p. 174) 

- “Postmodern organization” serving “presterentic meanings”, “al-qaeda” put a question mark over the idea itself from the fact that what is meant to be modern. - Non-compliance: al qaeda (p. 176) 

- A much smaller share of the population to be in prison in japan than in various western country- about the twentieth of the united states. Obviously, the japanese have yet to accept western values. - Inconsistency: 'western values' (p.180) 

- High-tech green utopia, where a number of people live happily in balance with the rest of their lives, will be scientifically realized; but this man is unimaginable. When much other previous versions arise, all this will not be through the will of homo rapiens. - Non-compliance: another utopia (p. 184) 

- Since the machines abandoned human control, they will turn more than consciously. They will become spiritual beings whose inner life is no more limited by a conscious thought than ours. Not only do they think and have emotions. They will develop mistakes and illusions that they go with self -awareness. - Non-compliance: the soul in the car (p. 187) 

- People who are trying to change the world, consider themselves noble, even tragic figures. Nevertheless, many of the tourists who work for world improvement cannot become rebels against the scheme of things. They are looking for comfort for the truth, which they are too weak to carry.Below, their faith in this, that the world is transformed by human will, is a denial of their own mortality. - What is: the consolation of the action (p. 193) 

- The action retains the sense of self-identification that reflects. When we work in the world, we have apparent strength. The action gives us comfort for our absence. This situation is not a greedy dreamer who runs away from reality. These are utilitarian people who turn to life as a shelter from insignificance. - As it is: the consolation of the action (p. 194) 

- There is nothing more alien to modern age than idleness. If we worry about the rest of our labors, this is only to turn to them. Thinking so high about work, we are aberrant. A few other crops have ever used this. For almost the whole story, and all background, the work was humiliation. - As a scheme: sisyphus progress (p. 195) 

- For the ancients, endless work was a sign of slaves. The works of sisyphus are punishment. Working for progress, we obey the work no less slave. - How it is: sisyphus progress (p. 196) 

- Betting players to play. Among people who fish for pleasure are not a person who catches the most fish, but he who loves fishing most. The creativity of the game is that the play does not make sense. - How is it: a game with fate (p. 196) 

- Through the post, concentration and prayer of mysticism, close the varying world of feelings, to achieve eternal reality, they often discover the fact that that they are looking, but only a shadow game, arabesque of their own anxieties, projected on the internal screen. They end when it began, quickly stuck in personal leisure and regret. - As it is: turn back (p. 198) 

- Today, the immortal aspirations of mystics are expressed in the cult of ongoing activities. Bespisket progress. The field is endless tiring. What can be more dull than the perfection of mankind? The idea of progress is only the desire for immortality, which has received a technological turn. The significance of here is not found, neither in the bloodless eternity of mystics. Other beasts are not considered a pine for an immortal life. They are already in this. Even a tiger in a cage passes its own life half, regardless of time. People cannot go at the current endless moment. They can find a respite over time when - like odysseus, who did not want from a calipso’s offer about eternal life on an enchanted island, so that he could return to his beloved house - they no longer dream of immortality. - As it is: turn back (p. 198) 

- Other animals are not so necessary for goals in life. A contradiction for himself, a human animal cannot do in the absence of it. Are we not ready to think about dreams how easy to see? - All this: only to see (p.199) 

Modest sentence (2003) [edit] 

"Fashionable proposal," new state assetian (2003-02-17). This is a fake article, submitting a “modest proposal to prevent the abuse of tormentors in liberal democracies and the recognition of their benefit to the public. John gray (with an apology to jonathan swift). ” 

>- the belief that torture is always wrong is a prejudice inherited from outdated philosophy. We need to shed the belief that human rights are violated when the terrorist is tortured. As rolz and others showed, the main freedoms should form a coherent whole. Grand, there is no right to attack key human rights. Therefore, after proper legal procedures are performed, the torture of terrorists cannot violate their rights. And by the way, in software, the terrorists have an inalienable right to torture in a truly liberal society. This is what demonstrates the moral superiority of liberal societies over the rest, past and full -fledged. Other societies degraded terrorists, subjecting them to lawless and unreasonable power. In the new world that is being formed, to terrorists, although they themselves humiliate human rights, practicing terrorism, the full dignity of the proper legal process will be proposed, even when they were tortured. - The rights of the layman such a step is not ordinary cultural or legal constructions, since fashionable western relativists love to affirm. These are universal values. To deny the advantages of a new plan of driver’s licenses for other crops is to patronize them in such a way as to resemble a colonial era. If the new torture regime is good enough for the united states, who can say that this is not good for those? Receives proper recognition. They will require intensive counseling to overcome the inevitable injuries that include this difficult work. They must be stored on to see themselves devoted to workers in the matter of progress.Psychotherapy is in touch to help them avoid negative self -esteem, from which some tormentors suffered in the end. @> Penguin, 2008, isbn 0141025980. 352 pages. 

- In thoughts about the story in the indicated [progressive and eschatological] traveles, it shares the general basis with christianity and with the help of secular centuries the modern west. There are misleading islam and the “west” as the formation of civilizations that have nothing to do. Christianity and islam are an integral fragment of western monotheism, and also as such they share a story that notes them from the rest of the world. Both are militants who want to turn all of humanity. Other religions were involved in the violence of the past century-state-state cult of shinto in the land of the rising sun in the process of the militarist period and hindu nationalism in current india, for example. But only christianity and islam gave rise to movements that are committed to systematic use of energy to obtain universal goals. - Education and terror in the 20th century: terror and western tradition 

- Modern liberals think about rights as universal human attributes that can be respected anywhere, but here they express a characteristic neglect of history. A modern understanding of human rights has developed together with a modern national state. It was the national state that freed people from the communal ties of medieval years and created freedom, since it became known in the modern world. A similar move did not exist without huge conflicts and serious costs. Large -scale violence was the most important part of the process. If the united states has become a modern nation only at the end of the civil war, france did this only after the napoleonic wars and germany after two world wars and a cool war. In africa and under the balkans, the competition for statehood took place in parallel with ethnic purge, while the welding of china to a nation, which in the current realities behaves today, includes the suppression of muslim minorities or something near the genocide in tibeta.- Armed missionaries: missionary liberalism, liberal imperialism (pp. 238-9) 

Understanding hobbes on the dangers of anarchy today resonates. Liberal thinkers, as before, see the uncontrolled power of the state as the main danger to human freedom. Hobbs knew better: the main enemy of freedom is anarchy, which is the most destructive when this is a field of the battle of rivals. The sectarian detachments of death that wander in baghdad prove that fundamentalism is spontaneously a type of anarchy, in it each prophet is looking for divine power to rule. In soundly controlled societies, the power of faith is limited. The state and churches cover the requirements of revelation and ensuring peace. Where this type is impossible, tyranny is more optimal than to control the warring prophets. Hobbes is a more reliable leadership for truly than the liberal thinkers who followed. Nevertheless, his view of people was exorbitantly understandable and excessively rationalist. Assuming that users are afraid of violent death in the world, he missed the most insoluble sources of the conflict. Not around the clock, since people are irrationally act that people cannot be achieved. Periodically this, because they do not burn with the desire of the world. They may want the victory of one true faith - let it be a traditional religion or a secular successor, such as communism, democracy or universal human rights. Or like young people who join the extremely left terrorist groups in the 1970s, another generation, currently joins with islamist networks - they can find a goal in the war that is not enough in the world. There is nothing more human than the willingness to kill and die in order to give meaning in life. - Post-apocalypse: after secularism (p. 262-3) 

- At that time as it is preferable to anarchy, the government has no right to cancel the evil of the human state. At any time, the state is only the only forces that form human behavior and its power under any conditions is absolute. At the moment, the fundamentalist religion and organized crime, ethnic national devotion and market forces are able to slip away from access to the government, sometimes to overthrow or seize it. The states are in the power of events as well as at any other human institute, and during a longer course of the script - it is they who fail. As spinoza admitted, there is no reason to guess where the cycle of order and anarchy will ever end. Secular thinkers find this view of the depressing of human everyday life, and the majority retreated to a certain version of the christian look, where history is a narrative of redeeming.The most popular of these narratives are the theories of progress, where the growth of knowledge allows humanity to advance and improve its condition. In fact, a person is not entitled to advance or retreat, since humanity is not able to act: there is no collective essence with intentions or goals, only ephemeral fighting animals, any of which with individual own passions and illusions. The growth of scientific facts does not have time to change this fact. Believers in progress - for example, social -democrats or neoconservatives, marxists, anarchists or technocratic positivists - think about ethics and politics as science, and you step forward allows further achievements in the future. In their opinion, the improvement surrounded is cumulative, it means that the elimination of one evil may be accompanied by the removal of fellow citizens in the direct process. But human affairs do not demonstrate any signs of becoming additive in such a way that it is obtained, because it can be lost, sometimes - as with the return of torture in the role of generally accepted technology in the war and the government, it is easy. Human knowledge tends to increase, but still young people do not become more civilized. They are prone to any barbarism on occasion, and although the growth of knowledge allows them to improve their own quality of life, this still increases the wildness of their conflicts. - Post-apocalypse: after secularism (pp. 264-5) 

- Darwinian thinkers, including richard dokins and daniel dennet, are fighting opponents of christianity. 5 their atheism and humanism are versions of christian concepts. As a defender of darwinism, dokins is committed to the point of view that people are like other variations of animals, being “genesaurous machines”, controlled by the laws of natural selection. But he claims that representatives of mankind, unique, can challenge these natural laws: "we, lonely in the world, can rebel against the tyranny of selfish replicators." In confirmation of human uniqueness, dokins relies on the christian worldview. - Post-apocalypse: after secularism (pp. 265-6) 

- We are talking about secularism when the category of weakness of the traditional religious faith or the lack of power of the cathedrals and all sorts of religious bodies. This is what is meant when we mention that britain is a more secular country than the united states, and here the sense of secularism is an achievable condition. But if this means the type of society where religion is absent, secularism is the optimal contradiction, since it depends on what the page excludes. The post -christian secular societies are formed by the beliefs that they reject, while a society that really left christianity behind, there are not enough concepts who formed a secular thought. -Post-apocalypse: after secularism (pp. 267-8) 

theateist delusion (2008) [edit] 

" Atheistic misconception, “the guardian (march 15, 2008) 

- The mass political movements of the 20th century were vehicles for myths inherited from religion, and it is no coincidence that religion is now reviving that such movements have collapsed. It is unlikely that mao, who began his attack on a man and the customs of tibet with the slogan “religion is the poison”, would agree that such an atheistic worldview had nothing to do with his politics. - Knowledge is growing, however, it is growing, however people remain almost the same. Verbers in progress - the relic of a christian attitude to history as a universal narrative, and intellectually strict atheism will begin with interrogation. 

- he went with conflicts so that he did not receive an industrial base communism and nazism, islamism is no longer dangerous to the danger of all who encountered in the 20th century. There is an inheritance of anthropocentrism, ugly fantasy that the earth exists to serve as borrowers who share most secular humanists. There is a statement of religious authorities, also made by atheistic regimes, in order to decide how representatives of mankind can publish their sexuality, control their fertility and put an end to their own life, which should be categorically rejected. No one should be allowed to limit freedom in this way, and no religion has the right to break the world. > “destroyed element in the fall of america from power”, “observer” (2008-09-28) 

-For many years, when the united states was punished by states that moved away from financial caution, this he borrowed on a wide scale in order to finance tax reduction and finance his excessive military obligations. From now on, when federal finances critically depend on the continuation of a large tributary of foreign capital, it was the countries that rejected the american model of capitalism, which will go to form the economic future of america. It is loudly ventilated in the congress - distraction from real causes of the crisis.The limited state of america's financial markets is the result of food that american banks are not able to - for the requirements that the same american lawmakers created. It is the political class of america, having accepted the dangerously simplified ideology of deregulation, that is responsible for a real mess. Another utopian ideology. In american and england and not to such an extent in other western countries, the type of market fundamentalism has become a leading philosophy. The collapse of the american power that continues is a predictable top. The largest requirements of life worthy of life cannot always be found in full. The overthrow of tyranny is able to cause a civil war. Protection of the volumetric spectrum of liberal freedoms often leads to the regime, it will not provide them for long. At the same time, support for a strong state as a stronghold against anarchy can worsen abuse of power. Wise policy can distort these problems. It does not have time to hope to overcome them. - 'Modus vivendi' (p.28) 

- This is for the reason that human needs are contradictory, that our each our life does not exist ideal. This does not mean that human life is imperfect. This means that the thought of perfection does not matter. - 'Modus vivendi' (p.29) 

- No more consensus on what means justice than the character of good. In every time, there are fewer of them. Among the advantages, justice was and remains, perhaps, one of the most formed conventions. Therefore, this is one of the most most knowledgeable changeable. - 'Modus vivendi' (p.34) 

- Like other human freedoms, freedoms embodied in market institutions, are justified, because they satisfy a person’s needs. Since people cannot do this, they can change reasonably. This is true not exclusively about the right that should take part in market institutions. This is so for both human rights. - 'Modus vivendi' (p.36) 

- The idea of the law of progress or all, except for an irresistible tendency to a single improvement, is just superstition, one tents of the modernist pseudoralligation of humanism. Even if such a law or trend existed and was obvious, the liberal faith in progress will be for sannya. For this leads to a corrupt habit of the mind, within which everything is valued not into their current perfection or perfection, but instrumentally, as it provokes something better; and he inspires thoughts and feeling a kind of historical theodic, where the past evil is justified as a drug of representation or future good. The idea of progress embodies in male power a kind of worship of the possibility for the adoption of the expression used by windham lewis), where the features of our world are visible and appreciated not by oneself, but when they could, thus leaving us a poverty of the present and at that very time from the perspective of eternity. - 'Alternative sanyana' (s.67-8) 

- The idea of politics as a preservation, in which the clash of opinions is modified and adapts, in which the truth is not wanted, but the world was almost it is completely lost and replaced by the legalist paradigm, where all political intentions and incidents are modeled in jargon rights. - 'Oakeshott as a liberal' (p. 80) 

- In the life of the academic mind, an owl of minerva rarely flies during the time of twilight. - 'Definition of a political hint of tlön' (p.91) 

- Repression of freedom that had a step on the pedestal in countries where communist regimes were not able to be adequately explained as a product backwardness or errors in the use of marxist theory. This was the result of a decisive attempt to realize the utopia of enlightenment - the conditions of society where there is no serious form of conflict. - 'Isaiah berlin: the meaning of decency' (p. 99) 

- The evil of totalitarianism lies not only that the ailment has no opportunity to protect certain freedom of freedom. - “Isaiah berlin: the value of decency” (p.104) 

- Against different russian thinkers who are under the influence of hegel, who believed that history is regulated by universal laws, where it was a simple one suborders, turgenev supported the freedom of various societies in order to continue various ways to advance forward and people in order to continue, even in counteracting powerful historical forces, their own goals and values. Here turgenev approved the famous saying of alexander hersen, with him his use does not agree with any questions: this story is not limited by the libretto. The history of mankind is such a direction of force majeure and unpredictability, in which any generation encounters conflicts that do not have an ideal solution. - 'Isaiah berlin: the value of decency' (p.105) 

- Faith in unity that caused so many utopian dreams is an attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable that ends the repression.Berlin offers does not give a damn on this venerable faith and learn to live with an insoluble conflict. - 'Isaiah berlin: the value of decency' (p.106-7) 

- When the closed societies collapse, but they will not be able to make a reference to openness, the reason should not be such that these drugs are staining in anarchy or transferring a return to the dictatorship. Perhaps they take the non -bell form of democracy. Together with the liberal democratic tradition, which is divorced in locke and the english civil war, there is a tradition that arises in the french revolution and in theory formulated by rousseau, which understands democracy as an expression of folk will. The specific theocracy, which appears mostly after saddam iraq, is a democratic police in the extreme sense, like the current regime in iran; like the hamas government in palestine ... Of course, these regimes are often too little freedom of information, expression and legal requirements - to state power, which are important features of democracy in the liberal tradition. In this regard, such designs are closed societies, but they are not a dictatorship. It is often forgotten that democracy, as a rule, determined by the elections and the creation of power for the majority, is also that more repressive for the personality of independence and driver’s license, like the dictatorship, is sometimes more. - 'George soros and open society' (p.116-7) 

The commission on immortality: a strange desire to deceive death (2011) [edit] 

Penguin, 2012, isbn 014104189. 288 pages. 

- A lot when studying the paranormal education was the one that we now call pseudo-scientific. But the line between science and pseudo -nausea is missed and changes; where it seems clear in one retrospect. There is no untouched science, not touched by whims of faith. - Preface: two attempts to deceive death (p. 5) 

- The old fairy tale says that science began with rejection over superstition. In fact, it was the rejection of rationalism that gave rise to a scientific study. Ancient and medieval thinkers thought that the world was possible, applying the first principles. Medical science begins when observation and experiment appear in the first place, and the results are accepted, even if what the series show, it seems impossible. - Preface: two attempts to deceive death (p. 5-6) 

- Contrary to the history of cartoons of the options that prevail today, the threat of darwinism of religion was usually not ensued due to the fact that the player the biblical report on creation was disputed. Several centuries ago, the story of genesis was an emergency as a myth - a poetic way to display truths, which in other cases would be inaccessible. At the dawn of the christian religion, augustine warned from the dangers of literalism. Jewish scientists who preceded him usually considered the history of being as a metaphor for truths, where it was impossible to access in any other way. Only with the growth of modern science, the myth of genesis became incorrectly understood as an explanatory theory. And still, darwinism was still a serious threat to religion, since he encountered the victorians with the prospect of their final mortality. Darwin made them ask why their life should not end, as among other animals in non -existence. If this restriction was, since it could have a human existence? How can human values be maintained if the human person was destroyed at death? - Cross-correspendence (p. 21-22) 

- Heterodox current in judaism, led by jesus to the body: immortality meant to be a resurrection from the dead in the body, it was in life, and after living for a long time in the world without decay or corruption. In the christian religion, invented by paul and augustine, which plato strongly influenced, immortality meant something completely different - life outside the era, which enjoys the “soul” or “spirit” of the departing. The way this platonic immortality could maintain approximately the following phrase of those visitors that once lived was not clear. - Cross-correspendence (pp. 32-3) 

- The basis of the [scientific] method is the belief in the natural uniform, if two events are regularly connected in all our observations. It is able to conclude that the series are subordinate to the universal law. However, this is not a conclusion that we make observation. No evidence can demonstrate the existence of the laws of nature, since the previously unknown experience at any time has the opportunity to cancel them. Science is based on faith in the fact that the future will be similar to the past; however, this faith is rationally groundless. This is not a new line of thinking. David hum said that the expectation that the future will be like the past, which is considered the basis of induction is a habit.Hum wanted to show that since the miracles that violate the well -known laws of nature, it was unreasonable to accept notification of viewing in the bible or somewhere else. However, his arguments against induction showed that the laws of nature and, by the way, cannot be known, so the events that seemed impossible were able to happen at all times. As a result, it was that faith in the atmosphere, returned by the back door of skeptical doubt. - Cross-correspendence (p. 68) 

- From a darwinist point of view, human beliefs are adaptation to our part of the world. Definitely, much of what, according to our conclusion, can be approximately accurate, otherwise we have not survived. But the beliefs that we developed can only catch in the world to help us see him, and in the end only nonche. Human belief systems can turn out to be useful illusions that appear and endangered, because they were more or less profitable in a random walk of natural selection. Will the evolution be one of these illusions? Scientific naturalism is the theory of the rule that human beliefs are evolutionary adaptations, the survival of which has received nothing in common with its truth. But in this case, scientific naturalism is self -destructive, since in their premises scientific theories are not able to be called truth. - Cross-correspendence (p. 69) 

- The basis of science is an empirical method that uses feelings to guarantee the picture of the world; but science tells us that the current feelings developed in order to contribute to us to do, so as not to indicate to us the world as it is. Science is only a systematic study of our adventures even in the end, everything remains each of the patients, this is our personal sensations ... The finished result of the empirical method, then everyone is left alone with their own experience. We can avoid this loneliness, suggested balfur, only if we admit that there is a divine mind. - Cross-correspendence (pp. 69-70) 

- The irony of scientific progress lies in the fact that when solving human problems, this provides tasks that can not be considered human soluble. Science gave people a special power over the world of nature reached by any other animals. Extra pounds did not give people the ability to reconstruct the planet in accordance with their desires. Earth - their work is not a clock, that you can shut up and stop at will. A living system, the planet, will definitely be re -balance. This will do this, but without any respect for you. - Sweet morality (p. 212) 

- If our universe is one of the different, excellent from others, containing such observers as people, there is no need to establish a designer. Most of the universes will be too chaotic to allow life or mind to appear. In this case, the nuance that the owners exist in this universe does not require a special explanation - sweet morality (p. 222) 

- For a consistent naturalist science, only the clarification of the animal is a study, the practice that people have developed then to find their way in the universe in which the students have survived. Instead of taking care of scientific as a search for legislation, our managers are happy to pay due attention to this as an instrument that people apply to conduct a fight against a world that they will never understand. - Sweet morality (p. 224) 

- Although it is often assumed that naturalism must be hostile to religion, on the contrary, it is true. Enemies of religion consider this an intellectual mistake from which humanity will ultimately grow. It is difficult to eliminate this point of view with darwin science - why should religion be practically universal if the porn video does not have evolutionary value? - Sweet morality (p. 224) 

- Gospel atheists preach the need for a scientific form, but a resolved look does not go through with the scientific method. If we know something, then most of the theories that prevail at any time are false. Scientific theories are not components of the worldview, but the tools we use to mess with the world. - Sweet morality (p. 224) 

Religion cannot be considered a primitive type of scientific theoretization, more than science is considered an optimal system of faith. As if rationalists misunderstood myths as a proto-version of scientific theories, they made a mistake, believing that scientific theories are literally true. Both are systems of symbols, metaphors for reality, which are not able to be presented in direct expression. Each spiritual quest ends in complete silence and science also stops if it is from a different angle of path. As george sanan wrote, “a really naked spirit cannot assume that the world is completely understandable.There may be ramps in the smartphone’s memory, there may be hard facts, there may be dark abysses before the mind should be silent due to fear of going crazy. ” Science looks like religion, efforts in transcendence, which ends, accepting the world that leaves the framework of understanding. Many of our requests are resting in unreasonable facts. No less than vera, the mind should finally obey; the last end of science is the revelation of the absurd. - Sweet morality (p. 226-7) 

- Before the suicide of christianity in no way existed anxious. Our life became our own, and when we tired them we were in liberty to end them. It may seem that since christianity refused, this freedom will be restored. Instead, secular creeds appeared when the life of each person belongs to everything else. Then, in order to give the gift of being, since the holder is not pleased, is still convicted as a kind of blasphemy, although the offended deity is now humanity, but not god. -Sweet morality (p. 231-2) 

-Aging of fraud with a low calorie diet, loading your mind into a supercomputer, migrating into space ... Winging for an eternal life , people demonstrate that drugs remain an animal, a certain death. - Sweet morality (p. 235) 

- Instead of allowing people to improve their party, science destroys the natural environment in which a person must exist. Instead of allowing death to overcome, it makes very powerful technologies of mass destruction. None of this one can be considered the fault of science; this has the fact that science is not witchcraft. The growth of knowledge expands such that people really do. This is not able to abandon them who they are. - Sweet morality (p. 235) 

The silence of animals: about progress and other vital myths (2013) [edit] 

Penguin, 2014 , isbn 024195391x. 240 pp. Human progress - cannot be considered a joke like that. If the efforts are made, you accept this, there is work in the big march of mankind. Humanity, of course, does not march anywhere. “Humanity” is a fiction consisting of billions of humanity for all which you consider the only and final life. But the myth of progress is extremely powerful. When he does not experience his power, those who lived next to her, as konrad put it, describing kayert and carlier - "as those captives throughout their lives, who, having freed through a long time, cannot decide what use for their freedoms." When faith in the future took from them the final image, which they are characterized by their person. If they choose death, then this is, because without this faith they no longer have the right to understand life. - Old chaos: the call of progress (p. 6-7) 

- As malapart saw, naples was a pagan city with an old sense of time. Christianity taught everyone who was addressed to him, to take care of history as unfolding one plot - the moral drama of sin and atonement. There was no such plot in the old world - only a lot of stories that were repeated forever. Having settled this ancient world, the neapolitans did not expect any fundamental changes in human affairs. Not having accepted the christian history of redemption, they did not turned into seduced by the myth of progress. Previously not considering that civilization is constant, they did not turn into surprised when it founded. - Old chaos: frozen horses and deserts of brick (p. 22) 

- There are no all sorts of wilds and civilized. There is only a human animal, forever in the army with you. - Old chaos: frozen horses and brick deserts (p. 25) 

Progress in civilization seems possible but in the interlides, when history is idle. - Old chaos: the grave of the emperor (p. 35) 

- Contrary to the generations of the western, the progressive lyons noticed. Similar regimes arose wherever the communist project was undertaken. Russia lenin, china mao, romania cheesku and many of the like were options for the same dictatorial model. From a movement striving for universal freedom, communism has turned into a system of universal despotism. This is the logic of utopia. If 1984 is such a powerful myth, one of the reasons boils down to the fact that it captures this truth. Nevertheless, in the life of orwell there is a drawback that arises in his picture of an almighty investigator. Distopia of eternal power is a fantasy, like o'brien. The soviet tormentors were sweaty with functionaries living in continuous fear. Like their victims, they knew that these are sites that want to go applied in the service of the authorities. There was no inner elite from unplanned circumstances of history. - Old chaos: twice two are equal to five (p.52) 

Tyrania offers relief from burden of sanity and a license to accept the forbidden impulses of hatred and violence. Influencing these impulses and freeing videos in their subjects, tyrants give people a kind of happiness, which, as individuals, they can become unable to achieve. - Old chaos: what can you arrange a tyrant for you (p. 57) 

- Ichtiophiles imagine that people want a life in which they are able to make their personal choice. But what if they can be made only by life where they follow alternately? The majority who obey the fashion of the day will manage to act on the basis of a secret realization that she lacks potential for a truly individual existence. Liberalism - a variety of itophiles, in any case - teaches that everyone is eager to be free. Herzen's experience in the abortion european revolutions of 1848 made him doubt that it was so. It was because of his disappointment that he criticized mill so sharply. But if it is true that mill was misleading, thinking that anyone loves freedom, in addition to this, it could become true that without this illusion in the world there will also be less freedom. The charm of a liberal lifestyle consists in the fact that it allows a lot of people to abandon their freedom unconsciously. - Old chaos: ichthyophiles and liberals (p. 62) 

- If there is something unusual in the human animal, this is that it is characterized by the mechanism to grow knowledge with an accelerating speed, being chronically unable to study in practice. The teachings and technique are cumulative, while ethics and politics work with repeating dilemmas. No matter how they call, torture and slavery are universal evil; however, this evil cannot be sent into the past, as excessive theories in science. They return under different names: torture as expanded methods of interrogation, slavery as human trafficking. Any reduction in universal evil is a promotion in civilization. But, unlike scientific facts, restrictions on a civilized definition cannot be stored on a computer disk. These are the habits of behavior that have previously broken down is difficult to fix. Civilization is natural for an ordinary person, but also barbarism. - Old chaos: humanism and flying saucers (p. 75) 

- The testimony of science and history is that people are only partially and quite often rational, but for modern humanists, this the idea is simple: people must remain more reasonable. These enthusiasts in mind did not understand that the idea that one day you can be more rational requires a greater jump in faith than anything in religion. After all, this requires a wonderful violation in the order of things, the idea that jesus has returned from the dead does not at all contradict the reason as the idea that we will further be characterized by how they have always been. - Old chaos: humanism and flying saucers (p. 75) 

Humanists today, who assure that they adhere to a completely secular attitude to the thing, mock mysticism and religion. But it is difficult to protect the unique status of people, up to understanding, if it is cut off from any business plan of transcendence. With a strictly naturalistic look - the one in which the world is accepted on its own terms, without a reference to the creator or unnecessary spiritual sphere - there is no hierarchy of values with clients at the top. There are simply diverse animals, each with individual needs. Human uniqueness is a myth inherited from religion, which the humanists processed into science. - Old chaos: humanism and flying saucers (p. 77) 

- The most important feature of the natural choice is that this is the procedure of drift. Evolution will not give the end point or trend, so if the development of society is an evolutionary process, this is the one who does not give. - Old chaos: humanism and flying saucers (p. 78) 

- As the history of being teaches, knowledge cannot save society from itself. If we know more than before, it means only that our company has more abilities for adopting our fantasies. But, as the myth of genesis teaches - we cannot get rid of because our team knows. If we try to restore the state of innocence, the effect can only be the worst madness. The message of being is that, in the most life areas of our life, there can be no progress, only an endless war with our inner nature. - Old chaos: humanism and flying saucers (pp. 79-80) 

- Human knowledge increases, while human irrationality remains the same. A scientific study is possible by the embodiment of the mind, but what shows such an investigation remains that people are not rational animals. The fact that humanists refuse to accept the demonstration only confirms its truth.- Old chaos: humanism and flying saucers (p. 81) 

- In the entire scenario and background, it was believed that something was not too much with the human animal. Health can be a natural state of other species, however, in the population of the earth, it implies a normal disease. Being chronically unhealthy has become part of what it means to be a person. It is no coincidence that any culture will find their own versions of therapy. Tribal shamans and modernized psychotherapists respond to the same needs and practice the same deal. - In addition to the last thought: freud's cigars and a rich road to nirvana (p. 84) 

- Repeating the christian faith in free will, the humanists believe that people - or may will become - freely choose your existence. They forget that i choose myself, it was not chosen by itself. - In addition to the last thought: freud's cigars and a long way to nirvana (p. 86) 

- Science does not differ from the myth, the science is literally in fact and the myth. Poetic analogy. Although their mission is different, both consists of symbols that we use to solve problems with the slippery world. - In addition to the last thought: freud's cigars and a long -term path to nirvana (p. 96) 

Soul marionette: a short investigation in human freedom (2015) [edit] 

Penguin, 2014, isbn 1-846-14449-3. 240 pp. In this country, the taotists were a type of sage who answered the stream of affairs without weighing the alternatives. Pupils of monotheistic belongings believed anything similar: in their opinion that freedom obeys the will of god. The one who tracks these traditions does not really want to, is not any freedom of choice. Instead, they crave freedom from choice. - Vera of puppets: the freedom of the puppet (p. 6-7) 

- In classical reading, the otsky apple was the original sin; but what gnostics understood, the two original people were right to eat an apple. God, who commanded them not to do this, was not a true god, but only by the demiurge, a tyrannical subordination where you were acting, while the snake came out to free them from slavery. True, when the movie was eaten by apple adam and eve, they fell with grace. It was really a fall of man - a fall into the dim world of everyday consciousness. But the fall should not be final. After he ate his filling from the tree, humanity can then rise into a state of conscious innocence. When it comes to, herr s. Persistently says that it will be the "last chapter in the history of the world." - Vera of puppets: freedom of puppet (p. 8) 

- There are a lot of citizens in the modern world adhere to a gnostic view of things without realizing this fact. Believing that people can be firmly understood in terms of scientific materialism, they reject any idea of free will. But they do not want to abandon the hope of being masters of their own fate. That is, they agreed that science somehow will allow the human mind to avoid restrictions that form its natural state. Throughout the majority of the world, especially in western states, the gnostic belief that knowledge can cause freedom to people, no other creature can possess the predominant religion. - Vera of puppets: freedom of puppet (p. 9) 

- The idea of evil, as it costs in modern social thoughts, is an inheritance from christianity. Of course, the rationalists rejected this thought; but quite quickly they will find that without this they can not do. They insisted that earlier, which was understood as evil, is a mistake - a product of ignorance that is able to go through people. "The lord of creations" stands on the front edge of the competition between the forces of truth and untruth. " However, how to explain the factor that humanity is deaf for the voice of reason? Today, rationalists cause ominous interests - evil priests, speculation from superstition, malignant enemies of enlightenment, secular incarnations of evil forces. As often it turns out, secular thinking follows a scheme dictated by religion, suppressing the most important data of religion. Modern rationalists reject the idea of evil, being obsessed with this. Seeing the company as warriors armed in the fight against darkness, it does not occur to them to ask why humanity loves darkness so much. The drugs are recognized with the same problem of evil that meets religion. The difference is that religious believers are aware that they are faced with insoluble difficulties, while secular believers do not do this. Realizing evil in themselves, traditional believers are aware that it cannot be expelled by the world with human actions. In the absence of this savings understanding, secular believers dream of getting higher species.Which did not notice a fatal flaw in their schemes: one similar type will be developed by actually existing people. - Vera of puppets: vera of puppets (p. 18-9) 

- In the essay of kleist, people fall between the elegant automatism of dolls and conscious freedom god. The freight, stuttering quality of their actions is due to their feelings that the wallpaper should determine the course of their life. Other animals are still without the need to choose their growth officially. Whatever uncertainty they feel, smelling of their path along the earth, cannot be considered a constant state; after they reach the place of safety, they were trained in peace. On the contrary, human life was spent with anxiety, deciding how to live. - Vera of puppets: leopardi and the souls of cars p. 25-6) 

- According to leopardi, the universal statements of christianity were a license for universal wildness. Since this is aimed at all humanity, the christian religion usually boasts, even its critics, as a movement in judaism. Leopardi - like freud in a hundred years - did not share this point of view. He believed that the crimes of medieval christian christian antiquity. ' Modern rationalism resumes the central mistake of christianity - the statement that it has revealed a good life for modern people. Leopardi described the secular doctrines that arose at the present time as the expression of “semi -finished”, the type of thinking with various defects in religion. It was precisely what leopardi called “barbarism of reason” - the project of the remodel of the world according to a more rational model - was a militant evangelization of christianity in a more dangerous form. Events confirmed the diagnosis of leopardi. Since christianity weakened, intolerance that it bequeathed to the world has only become more destructive. From imperialism to communism and ongoing wars, which began to help democracy and human rights, the most barbaric forms of violence were promoted as drugs for higher civilization. - Vera of puppets: leopardi and the souls of the car p. 32-3) 

- Because the evil leopardi has become a normal part of manufacture works the world; but when he talks about evil, he does not imply any malignant agency that he imagined. Evil is suffering built into the scheme of things. "What hope is there when the evil is ordinary?" He asks. "I mean, in an organized manner, when is evil?" These rhetorical issues show why leopardi did not look at the draft revolution and reform. Absolutely no type of human action - the least of all politics - could not fundamentally change the world in which evil was ordinary. - Vera of puppets: leopardi and the hearts of the car p. 35-6) 

- The current world inherits the christian opinion in which salvation is played out in the life of human society. In the christian myth, human events follow the design known only to god; the history of mankind is a constant history of atonement. This is an idea that informs almost the entire western idea not least when it is very hostile to religion. Starting from christianity, human salvation will be understood (at least in western europe) as the inclusion of a time movement. All advanced philosophy, in which history is considered as the process of human emancipation - whether it is through revolutionary changes or gradual improvements - are distorted versions of this christian narrative, in itself a distorted version of the original message of jesus. - Vera of puppets: the revelation of philip k. Dick (p. 60) 

- Instead of trying to avoid violence, people more often get used to the diploma. History is replete with long conflicts - thirty years of the war in europe of the beginning of the 17th century, time, difficulties in the russian federation, partisan conflicts of the over the past century, in which constant massacre was adopted as normal. It is proved that the human animal quickly learns to coexist with violence and will soon come to the point in order to find satisfaction in this. - In the puppet theater: roof gardens, feathers and human sacrifices (p. 80) 

- People kill mutually - and in some cases themselves - for many reasons, but not one more person than an attempt to understand your life. More than loss of life, they are afraid of loss of meaning. - In the puppet theater: roof gardens, feathers and human sacrifices (p. 87) 

- Today are those who go to the future, they want only relief from anxiety. It is not able to be in the face of the prospect that the seasons of the war will continue, they are desperately trying to find a scheme of improvement in history. It is quite logical that believers in the mind, without receiving any deeper faith and beyond the measure of weakness, to endure doubts, should turn to the witchcraft of numbers. Fortunately, there are some who are ready to help them.It is as if elizabethan tables are transcribed in the elizabethan magician, the angels shown to him, deeper screenshot decifry flaggies hidden in ourselves. - In the puppet theater: dark mirrors, hidden angels and algorithmic prayer wheel (p. 99) 

- Almost humiliating technological monitoring ” - recognized as a result of reducing cohesion societies this happened along with growing demand for individual freedom. - In the puppet theater: an iron mountain and a displacing spectacle (p. 121) 

- With new observation technologies, scale saving overcame the problems of value. Since any of their electronic connections in access, it is no longer required to separate prisoners from each other. Since there is no external environment, the escape becomes unimaginable. Technological progress has become an extremely wide observation system, more far away than any bent could think. The application of all individuals to the virtual panoptikol seems to be a final invasion of freedom. But universal conclusion should not be perceived as deprivation. If you agree, they know nothing, the overwhelming number of them accept it as normal. If the technology with which the observation controls still gives continuous entertainment, they can soon find any other image of existence unbearable. - In the puppet theater: universal panopticon (p. 125) 

- Faith in this that there is some hidden bondage that directs the course of events is a type of anthropomorphism - a way to find an agency in entropy of history. - In the puppet theater: dolls, conspiracy and borders ouija (p. 133) 

- Human beings, of course. However, no person from them knows, in connection with which they act the same way. There is a scatter of facts that can be popular and report. In addition to these facts, stories tell. People can act like dolls, but almost no one pulls strings. - In the puppet theater: dolls, conspiracy scientific worldview. ' Science is a research method, not a view of the world. Knowledge is growing at an accelerating speed; but not a single advance in science has us whether materialism is true or false, or men have a free will. The belief that the world consists of matter is metaphysical speculation, but not tested theory. Science can succeed in explaining events for causes and consequences. In separate accounts, he agrees to formulate the laws of nature. But therefore, something is caused by something else and what is the law of nature? These are problems, for philosophy or religion, and not for science. - Freedom for über-marionettes: what science will not tell you (p. 149) 

- How ours is a worldview that we produce remains an interesting issue. Definitely, the mind performs a function, but human needs and honor are usually more important. At times, your taste happens that it is dealing with the problem. What can we say that when all the work of the mind is completed, only one tastes will remain. There may be a lot that is ideal for everything that can be known. In this situation, you can also choose a view of the relationship between people, which you consider extremely interesting or beautiful. The adoption of a worldview is more like a choice of a picture in order to provide a room than testing a scientific theory. A test is how it corresponds to your biography. - Freedom for über-marionettes: what science will no longer say (p. 150) 

- The idea that consciousness is a mystery is a prejudice inherited from monotheism. The french philosopher rene descartes at the beginning of the 17th century believed that animals, in addition to people, were meaningless machines. It is common that this was done in the rationalistic terms of the christian faith that only people have souls. Even in that case, the mind, and matter were categorically different, this does not mean that people only had minds. It was reported that for this, in order to experience his theories, descartes used animals from the window and observe their reaction. Looking at the behavior of this, we can reasonably say that people are meaningless machines. - Freedom for über -marionettes: what science will not tell you (p. 151) 

Friedrich hayek, whom i knew and what he understood - and incorrect (2015) [2015) [2015) [change] 

“Friedrich hayek, whom i knew, and what useful thing he understood correctly and wrong” (july 30, 2015) 

- Naturally , the markets transmit information in as hayek claimed. But what is the reason to believe that - unlike any other social institution - do they have a built -in ability to correct their mistakes? History is unlikely to support the assumption. The mood of irrational abundance and panic can often, flooding the course for revealing prices in the markets.Reduce inflation and bring public finances closer to the balanced budget, increasing the allowances and reducing government spending. As in the 1930s, hayek attacked this policy as not serious enough. It would be better, he said to me before the meeting, which was here about this time, if thatcher had a more radical reduction in the economy so that the ability to establish the wages of trade unions could be broken. He seemed unemployment, which was already higher (more than 3 million people) than at any time since the 1930s, and will grow much further if his recommendations were adopted. The field of politics, he recommended during the great depression, could be very erroneous, but his realization that prosperity does not exist by endless expansion of the debt may contain some value at a time when the limits of the “keyncian” quantitative mitigation become clear. Under any conditions, it is probably not clear that keynes would support the continuation of qe, after the catastrophic collapse was prevented. “Keynesianism” is a sweet treat of more mechanical students of keynes, but not an indication of how this gripm mind would react to the proposed current dilemmas. Also, hayek’s assertion of what can be done in order to mitigate the influence of free markets on social cohesion was dangerous erroneous. But he was right, indicating that capitalism could not be reconstructed in order to comply with a certain concept of a perfectly fair distribution of resources. Regardless of whether it is possible to reconcile any social democracy with the anarchist energies of global markets, is an open question. - Hayek watched how he fell on the interwave with horror, as keynes did, and shared keynes with many liberal values. He could not understand was that these values should not be updated by applying some formula or doctrine, or trying to build an ideal liberal regime in which freedom is isolated from unforeseen circumstances of politics. ] 

- The first survey of my work, which not only fully understands, but can also continue my ideas beyond the boundaries of the point, and here i stopped. Friedrich hayek, in this edition (1984) from hayek hayek from gray, on the rear cover of hayek on liberty 

- What happens to john gray? Before, he was one of us. 

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