Whoever wishes to foresee the future must consult the past; for human events ever resemble those of preceding times. This arises from the fact that they are produced by men who ever have been, and ever shall be, animated by the same passions, and thus they necessarily have the same results.
Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its greatest successes. The media frenzy surrounding the prospect of Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire is not a celebration of human progress or individual initiative. It is a symptom of a deeper social and political crisis, one that exposes the power of class privilege, the corrupting forces of gangster capitalism, and a culture increasingly incapable of distinguishing wealth from worth or exploitation from human flourishing.
... full articleThis I regard as history’s highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.
En el primer Mundial de fútbol femenino, celebrado en México en 1971, las jugadoras de la Albiceleste golearon 4 a 1 a las británicas
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This book was written observing the premise that the seeds of Holocaust denial take root and prosper with misinformation. Clarity and transparency are imperative, as they leave no room for denial theories that would deprive the victims justice, or rob the living of a future. Generations of historians have enthusiastically gone about their craft knowing full well that ‘he who owns the past, owns the future’. Improperly documented history, or more precisely, fraudulent versions of history not only deprive the victims of pasts injustices due recognition of their suffering, but also rob the living of a fair chance at a future free from the dangers of repeating past injustices.”
This July 4, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a document that throws off the yoke of a divinely appointed ruler. But President Donald Trump is exploiting this occasion to promote a revisionist history of America as “one nation under God.”
These words, importantly, appear nowhere in the declaration. It wasn’t until 1954, during the height of the Cold War, that the words “under God” were added to the Pledge of Allegiance after heavy lobbying of Congress by religious groups and clergy. Similarly, “In God We Trust” was adopted as the nation’s motto in 1956.
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Primero, fue un gran servicio evangélico en el National Mall de Washington. Después, el violento espectáculo de una pelea de artes marciales mixtas en la Casa Blanca que agotó las metáforas y los adjetivos. El próximo miércoles, la celebración del 250° aniversario de la firma de la Declaración de la Independencia de Estados Unidos continuará con un mitin de Donald Trump, un espectáculo sobradamente conocido, pero insólito en el contexto de la conmemoración del nacimiento de un país, que también es, o solía ser, una poderosa idea, y cuyo presidente piensa convertir en una gran fiesta de sí mismo.
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