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Pranav Joshi

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Book cover for The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One

The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One by Hanzi Freinacht

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The real reality resides at the crossroads of fact and fiction. It is born precisely at the point where our imaginations, the stories we tell ourselves, meet the facts of the world and put them into context.

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“Nothing proves the man-made character of religion as obviously as the sick mind that designed hell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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“News is something somebody doesn't want printed; all else is advertising.”
― William Randolph Hearst

tags: misattributed-to-george-orwell, news, public-relations

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“Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

tags: atheism, humanism

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“The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

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