“To preserve one's mind intact through a modern college education is a test of courage and endurance, but the battle is worth it and the stakes are the highest possible to man: the survival of reason.” MenMindReasonTeachingModernCollegeBattleSurvivalHighestTestsPreservesEnduranceStakesWorth ItCollege Education Book:The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution Source: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
“We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned.” PeopleMadeRealityDecisionModernBattleDemandWake UpResponsibleAvailableInsaneFormerOur TimeMakersAncestorIrresponsibleAxesArmamentDecision Makers Author:Thor Heyerdahl
“Look, if you have a problem with distilling the Battle of Thermopylae down to freedom versus tyranny, you need to read Herodotus because he's the one. It's his fault, not modern culture's fault. He did it.' [Victor Davis Hanson] references a lot of things like that because he feels like the spirit of the book and of the movie ["300"] are very close to the Spartan aesthetic. That's really kind of what he feels."” IfsNeedsFeelsLooksKindBookProblemSpiritCultureModernBattleFaultsTyrannyAestheticVersusModern CultureThermopylae Author:Zack Snyder
“The stories I would hear from men who were going through divorces and in child custody battles, the lies their wives told about them being predators, that they had fondled or abused the children, and these guys didn't know what to do. It wasn't true. They had no idea how to combat it. And I said, "A large part of this is modern feminism. You've gotta understand it."” KnowsMenChildrenSaidIdeasStoriesLyingGuyWifeFeminismModernBattleDivorceNo IdeaCombatPredatorCustodyGoing Through DivorceChild Custody Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.” DifferentResultsBrainModernStrangeBattleConversationBehaviorComputerAccomplishArguingLockedMultitudesCompetingOngoingHarborsFeatsFactionsOutputWaltCursing Author:David Eagleman
“It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher.” MenDiesFightingNumbersGreaterViolenceModernHigherBattleRatePopulationTinyWarfarePercentagesClashModern Warfare Author:Steven Pinker
“You mean Teletubbies? (Berith) The fact that you know what they’re called, Berith, truly scares me. (Jericho) As a demon of torture, it behooves me to know all things that are deeply annoying. You’d be amazed how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as Teletubbies. (Berith) Not really. I’d rather battle a brain-eating zombie any day than hear them sing. (Jericho)” PeopleKnowsMeanFactsAgeBrainModernBattleEatingAll ThingsTortureDemonScareAnnoyingAmazedZombieJerichoModern Age Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon
“We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what "he" thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally - that is, for himself - which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.” ThinkingMenGivingImportantAbilityForgetModernPositionExpressionVictoryBattleSpeechClaimsFreedom Of SpeechInterfereRestraintModern Man Book:Escape from Freedom Source: Escape from Freedom