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Paddy MC
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Addiction Med/ Psychiatry/ Family and Community Medicine; Artist, Poet, Maine, Michigan, British Columbia, Gay, PhD primary care researcher, FNP/ PMHNP/ LCSW Malarkey-ist
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paddymc.bsky.social
Our state sanctioned violence against anything that pricks the delusion…

As Max Weber defined the modern state as a community that successfully claims a monopoly over violence within a geographical area, which required it to have legitimate and legal authority.
Ours is a oligarchic kakistocracy.
May 13, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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alisabokulich.bsky.social
A favorite quotation on this...
Photo of the Black physicist Robert Thornton & Albert Einstein, with quotation from Einstein's reply to Thornton's 1944 letter "“I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well as history and philosophy of science. So many people today—and even professional scientists—seem to me like somebody who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest. A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight is—in my opinion—the mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth” (Albert Einstein letter to Robert A. Thornton, December 7th, 1944)"
March 2, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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dcapto.bsky.social
Classic playbook tactic.
One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. — Carl Sagan
January 14, 2024 at 8:34 PM