Quotations

“Let me get this straight: We go to a country, we capture their leader, we bomb it, and then we say we run this country now — and that's not war. But when they send cocaine over here, that people are willingly snorting — that is war. That doesn't make any sense.”

Kat Timpf

Reposted on X by the excellent Elon Musk:

“The intellectuals could not, of course, actually prevent the masses from attaining literacy. But they could prevent them reading literature by making it too difficult for them to understand – and this is what they did. The early twentieth century saw a determined effort, on the part of the European intelligentsia, to exclude the masses from culture. In England this movement has become known as modernism. In other European countries it was given different names, but the ingredients were essentially similar, and they revolutionized the visual arts as well as literature. Realism of the sort that it was assumed the masses appreciated was abandoned. So was logical coherence. Irrationality and obscurity were cultivated.”
John Carey, The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia 1880-1939

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim

@academic_la

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The genocide was not the product of the Netanyahu government. All of Israeli society, including the center and the left fully supported it and believe that the IDF fought morally despite the horrific war crimes it committed. The very small minority that opposes the genocide is bullied into silence.