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The Bureaucratic Control against Indigenous Australia

Captain James Cooke arrived on Australian shores in the year 1770. After charting the east coast, he officiated that Australia was uninhabited, desolate and belonged to no one, identifying Australia as terra nullius and acquiring it authoritatively for King George III . The savages, as Captain Cooke elucidated, were primitive, uneducated and uncivilised, roaming peripatetically, consuming what the land bared, and...

Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn’t merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence. When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a C...

Brief Outline of Feminist Theory

In the early 1980s law became subject to a variety of new and influential critiques. The foremost being the culmination of feminism. The vindications of women’s rights lead to a prominent movements, whereby, contextualisation of domestic violence, rape, sexual objectification, oppression, sexual discrimination, marriage and sexual marginalisation became scrutinized against the social normality, and new discourses of ...

Social State of Marxism

(Aleksandr Zinovyev Quotes) Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society — communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism. If a Communist Party of a certain Western democracy promises to preserve after its seizure of power the positive characteristics o...

The Real History of Capitalism

Take a look at the history of “trucking and bartering” itself; look at the history of modern capitalism, about which we know a lot. The first thing you’ll notice is, peasants had to be driven by force and violence into a wage-labor system they did not want; then major efforts were undertaken – conscious efforts – to create wants. In fact, if you look back, there’s a whole interesting literature of conscious discussio...

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Why are fools and fanatics always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts?

Mar 2nd

Posted by Andrew Crichton in Other Sites

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I met a girl the other day at uni who asked me my view on this question.

A personal conviction is easier to formulate if you have lesser knowledge about a given topic.

Our world is outside absolutes. The actual possibilities are relative to constant variables and factors that influence all aspects of the impossibility.

Therefore, if a fool or fanatic is certain of himself or herself, it only means that they are certain within their limited scope of knowledge.

Their answer was easier to formulate opposed to a wiser person, as they only knew a limited amount of possibility.

So obviously, the more knowledge More >

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The Bureaucratic Control against Indigenous Australia

Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

Brief Outline of Feminist Theory

Social State of Marxism

The Real History of Capitalism

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The Bureaucratic Control against Indigenous Australia

Violence is not just Physical – Words that Underpin Intolerance

Brief Outline of Feminist Theory

Social State of Marxism

The Real History of Capitalism

Posts tagged Certain of Themselves

Why are fools and fanatics always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts?

Infinite Wisdom

Random Posts

My Twitters

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