Dark Medieval Times

For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. Jonathan Swift | 1729 It is a melancholy object to those, who walk through this great town, or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabbin-doors crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags, and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. I think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present dep...

Na imagem que faz de si mesmo, o Ocidente é um mundo “livre”, democrático e racional, ou seja, o melhor dos mundos possíveis. Do seu ponto de vista, esse mundo é pragmático e aberto, sem pretensões utópicas ou totalitárias. Cada um deve “ser feliz segundo seu próprio modo de ser”, de acordo com a promessa de tolerância feita pelo Iluminismo europeu. Os representantes desse mundo se dizem realistas. Afirmam que suas instituições, seu pensamento e sua ação encontram-se em harmonia com as “leis naturais” da sociedade, com a “realidade” atual. O socialismo, pelo que ouvimos, desmoronou porque era “irrealista”. Junto com o socialismo, foi definitivamente enterrada toda utopia de uma mudança fundamental da sociedade. E os antigos críticos do way of life ocidental agora se acotovelam nas bilheterias do “realismo” para comprarem a tempo seu ingresso na economia de mercado globalizada. Esse idílio da tolerância e da democracia econômica mundial, no entanto, produziu um novo inimigo. Com a morte...

Randall Terry, founder of 'Operation Rescue', an organization that blockades abortion clinics, told a congregation in August 1993: Let a wave of intolerance wash over you... Yes, hate is good... Our goal is a Christian nation... We are called by God to conquer this country... We don't want pluralism.

John Brockhoeft, serving seven years in prison for bombing a Cincinnati abortion clinic, writes in his newsletter: I'm a very narrow-minded, intolerant, reactionary, Biblethumping fundamentalist... a zealot and fanatic... The reason the United States was once a great nation, besides being blessed by God, is because she was founded on truth, justice, and narrow-mindedness.

One message flashes on the screen in hot pursuit of another. Your fingers are always busy: you squeeze the keys, calling new numbers to answer the calls or composing messages of your own. You stay connected – even though you are constantly on the move, and though the invisible senders and recipients of calls and messages move as well, all following their own trajectories. Mobiles are for people on the move. You never leave your mobile out of sight. Your jogging gear has a special pocket for your mobile, and you would not go out with that pocket empty just as you would not go running without your training shoes. As a matter of fact, you would go nowhere without your mobile (’nowhere’ is, indeed, the space without a mobile, with a mobile out of range, or a mobile with a flat battery). And once with your mobile, you are never out or away. You are always in – but never locked up in one place. Cocooned in a web of calls and messages, you are invulnerable. Those around you cannot blackball y...

Abaixo um trecho do discurso nazista pronunciado em 12 de abril de 1922: My feeling as a christian points me to my lord and savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, god's truth! Was createst not a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a christian and as a man I read though the passage which tell us how the lord at last rose in his might and seized the scourge to drive out of the temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight for the world against the jewish poison as a christian I have also a duty to my own people.

O brasileiro necessita de uma grande morte coletiva para jogar fora tudo o que o nazifascismo deixou no coração enferrujado, no coração recheado de deus, no coração coagulado de sangue seco e intoxicado, covardia e preguiça.

As falsas previsões proféticas apenas têm o poder sobre aqueles que foram condicionados a crer sem base na evidência e sobre aqueles segundo o nível de instrução é espantosamente carente de teoria materialista. É como se um rei arcaico falasse e suas palavras mostrassem como verdadeiras, seja como ordens, bênçãos ou maldições que poderiam fazer acontecer, magicamente, o que elas tendem a demonstrar. Acredita-se por medo a constatação imperativa da profecia paterna que remete ao obscurantismo e ao domínio subjetivo e ao triunfo geográfico ou a "experiência divina" revela o conformismo absoluto que está implícito. Em ambos os casos, a fragilidade dos crentes que concordam sem resistência extrai a crueldade do representante (muitas vezes um semi-letrado) em extrair satisfação, vaidade e dinheiro da ilusão, ou seja, de enriquecer e ganhar poder por meio da mentira.

Present-day society is wholly based on the exploitation of the vast masses of the working class by a tiny minority of the population, the class of the landowners and that of the capitalists. It is a slave society, since the “free” workers, who all their life work for the capitalists, are “entitled” only to such means of subsistence as are essential for the maintenance of slaves who produce profit, for the safeguarding and perpetuation of capitalist slavery. Religion is one of the forms of spiritual oppression which everywhere weighs down heavily upon the masses of the people, over burdened by their perpetual work for others, by want and isolation. Impotence of the exploited classes in their struggle against the exploiters just as inevitably gives rise to the belief in a better life after death as impotence of the savage in his battle with nature gives rise to belief in gods, devils, miracles, and the like. Those who toil and live in want all their lives are taught by religion to be sub...

A religião libera o homem da difícil tarefa do pensamento, ao oferecer explicações fáceis e cômodas para todos os fatos e ao desobrigá-lo de submetê-lo ao controle da experiencia e da interpretação histórica. O mesmo acontece com o ocultismo que promete uma verdade instantânea sem exigir esforço da razão.

  A educação brasileira é tão atrasada que não serve como instrumento de combate à superstição. Não tem como objetivo geral formar intelectuais. Veja por exemplo a expressão e a experiência que o subdesenvolvido tem com as suas cidades. Herança do iluminismo mandou um abraço.

Os idiotas continuam a ser maioria. Os provincianos precisam da família Bolsonaro, dos ratinhos, dos pastores evangélicos para se sentirem representados na miséria, na ignorância, no estilo cognitivo vulgar e burro. O resto é alcoolismo. 

For Germany, the   criticism of religion   has been essentially completed, and the criticism of religion is the prerequisite of all criticism. The  profane  existence of error is compromised as soon as its  heavenly oratio pro aris et focis   [“speech for the altars and hearths,” i.e., for God and country]  has been refuted. Man, who has found only the  reflection  of himself in the fantastic reality of heaven, where he sought a superman, will no longer feel disposed to find the  mere appearance  of himself, the non-man  [ Unmensch ] , where he seeks and must seek his true reality. The foundation of irreligious criticism is:  Man makes religion , religion does not make man.  Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But  man  is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is  the world of ma...