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“Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.”

Universe Social Wonder Support Stupid Fool Evolution Stupidity Finance Darwinism Social Darwinism

Author:William C. Brown

“The duke contents himself mainly with attempting to rule the world and other suchlike nonsense. When one is guiding the patterns of the social universe, a single spinster preternatural is unlikely to cause one undue distress.”

World Universe Social Causes Patterns Nonsense Distress Unlikely Attempting Dukes Spinsters

Author:Gail Carriger

“Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending" analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory.”

Facts Light Universe Given Social Accepting Possibility Theory Structure Finals Refuse Analysis Denied Abstraction Arrested Validation Transcending Social Theory

Book:One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“The one reasonable goal of social life was affirmed to be the creation of a world of awakened, of sensitive, intelligent, and mutually understanding personalities, banded together for the common purpose of exploring the universe and developing the human spirit's manifold potentialities.”

Source: Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels

“Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.”

Universe Social Media Information Easier Smart Phones Social Media Faster

Author:Daniel Goleman

“The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.”

“The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded.... Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in the universe.”

Men Universe Social Natural Gone Expectations Intention Unity Cosmic Faded Social Science Natural Science

Book:Closing of the American Mind

Source: Closing of the American Mind