Transferring guilt across generations from ancient ancestors to their heirs was highly convenient for religious authorities.
All too often legitimate conversations about policy preference devolve into accusations of moral transgression.
The centripetal tendency, if unchecked, ends in a black hole, in narrow paranoia, in the life-denying singularity of fundamentalism or fascism.
What will it take for this contagion to be seen for what it is, so that its most damaging effects can be prevented?
They witnessed the defeat of the Ottoman Turks at the siege of Vienna, ending a thousand years of implacable Islamic expansion.
To figure out what’s really going on, it’s worth taking a broader look at today’s teens – a generation of kids I call “iGen” – and the environment they’re living in.
If you’re easily offended, it’s hard to understand the world.
Damore stresses that these are differences at a statistical level between large populations and that we should not assume that they are descriptive of any particular individual.
Comedians poke fun at the absurd, unreasonable aspects of our thought, our behaviour and our societies so it is tempting to assume that they are rational themselves.
Sometimes people use it to mean pretend outrage, in which people cry “crocodile tears” over things that don’t really upset them.
Within the lens of Western culture, it is sex and not money that is the primary root of all evil.
Western leaders and policymakers who bemoan the referendum can, if they choose, flatter themselves as “realists.”
These might be two separate and superficially different incidents, but they are qualitatively very similar and underline the same cultural tensions that lead to these scenarios.
This robustness does still exist, but only at a fairly low level, where raw packets of data are routed between numerical addresses.
Having falsely established that Charlie Hebdo were just picking on Muslims, he can lay the charge of hypocrisy upon anybody that has ever objected to any other speech.