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“As has been long observed, men are people, but women are women.”

Book:Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference

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Cordelia Fine

Cordelia Fine is a British psychologist renowned for her research in social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Her books, such as 'A Mind of Its Own', delve into the relationship between psychology and everyday life. Born in 1975, Fine has made substantial contributions to the field of psychology, exploring how the brain functions and influences human behavior. more

“Max Planck once remarked that new scientific truths don’t replace old ones by convincing established scientists that they were wrong; they do so because proponents of the older theory eventually die, and generations that follow find the new truths and theories to be familiar, obvious even. We are optimists. We like to think it will not take that long. In fact, we have already taken a first step. We can see more clearly now what is going on when, for example, a study that is rigorous in every other respect begins from the unexamined assumption that there was some ‘original’ form of human society; that its nature was fundamentally good or evil; that a time before inequality and political awareness existed; that something happened to change all this; that ‘civilization’ and ‘complexity’ always come at the price of human freedoms; that participatory democracy is natural in small groups but cannot possibly scale up to anything like a city or a nation state. We know, now, that we are in the presence of myths.”

Civilization Inequality Myths Participatory Democracy Social Imagination

Book:The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

Source: The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

“As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but he don't know it, and that's where the trouble is. Now come on before you get us into a real mess.”

Knowledge Inequality

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress…. The people are demoralized; The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, homes covered with mortgages, labor impoverished…. The fruits of the toil of millions are badly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the Republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires.”

Politics Inequality Progressive Us History Populist Populism 1892 Omaha Platform Peoples Party

Author:Ignatius Donnelly

“Skinner shared how he came to worship an elite White Jesus Christ, who cleaned people up through “rules and regulations,” a savior who prefigured Richard Nixon’s vision of law and order. But one day, Skinner realized that he’d gotten Jesus wrong. Jesus wasn’t in the Rotary Club and he wasn’t a policeman. Jesus was a “radical revolutionary, with hair on his chest and dirt under his fingernails.” Skinner’s new idea of Jesus was born of and committed to a new reading of the gospel. “Any gospel that does not … speak to the issue of enslavement” and “injustice” and “inequality—any gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of Jesus Christ—is not the gospel.”