That which is good for the enemy harms you, and that which is good for you harms the enemy.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Daily Archives: August 10, 2025
Campus Life at
La Trobe University
Midday Music Fix
Johnny Cash – I Walk the Line
(Live in Denmark)
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The collapse of Marxist belief systems led to a massive decline of subjective well-being among the people of the former Soviet Empire, a decline that lasted for decades, leaving an ideological vacuum to be filled by rising religiosity and nationalism.
~ Ronald Inglehart
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Campus Life at
Deakin University
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All social disturbances and upheavals have their roots in crises of individual self-esteem, and the great endeavor in which the masses most readily unite is basically a search for pride.
~ Eric Hoffer
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When income level is the most important division in a society, politics is a struggle over how to redistribute money. When a society is more divided by education, politics becomes a war over values and culture. In country after country, people differ by education level on immigration, gender issues, the role of religion in the public square, national sovereignty, diversity, and whether you can trust experts to recommend a vaccine.
~ David Brooks
via How the Ivy League Broke America
published by The Atlantic
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