aéPiot<p>Martyred Intellectuals Day - aéPiot</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Martyred" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Martyred</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/a%C3%A9Piot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>aéPiot</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aepiot.com/?limit=1&language=en&query=Martyred+Intellectuals+Day" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">aepiot.com/?limit=1&language=e</span><span class="invisible">n&query=Martyred+Intellectuals+Day</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> </p><p>11. Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a><br> "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a>. It is not uncommon for professors and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> to be censored or even arrested. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeExpression</span></a> in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."</p><p>Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine. </p><p><a href="https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23</span><span class="invisible">/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepartmentOfEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DepartmentOfEducation</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DumbingUsDown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DumbingUsDown</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>From Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> (2003)</p><p>11. Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a><br> "Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HigherEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEducation</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a>. It is not uncommon for professors and other <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/academics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academics</span></a> to be censored or even arrested. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeExpression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeExpression</span></a> in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts."</p><p>House Republicans mull taxes on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scholarships" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scholarships</span></a> and changes to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StudentLoan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StudentLoan</span></a> programs</p><p>February 8, 2025</p><p><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-administration-education-college-loans-532d52c2ccac8b4be459f7797fb63a73" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apnews.com/article/trump-admin</span><span class="invisible">istration-education-college-loans-532d52c2ccac8b4be459f7797fb63a73</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SignsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SignsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ResistFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResistFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Education</span></a></p>
Andreas Sternowski<p>Until the end of the 19th century, there was no convincing alternative to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/materialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>materialism</span></a> for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> within Western culture. That is different today.<br>Many teachers of the several thousand year old <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vedanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vedanta</span></a> philosophy have since then come to the West from India and some leading Western <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophers</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/physicists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>physicists</span></a> have studied it in depth.<br>This <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> builds a bridge between consciousness and matter, between <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/spirituality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>spirituality</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>. <a href="https://www.continentia-verlag.org/post/advaita-vedanta-and-the-future-of-civilization" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">continentia-verlag.org/post/ad</span><span class="invisible">vaita-vedanta-and-the-future-of-civilization</span></a></p>
Amit Kamalbhai Dhanani<p>Biggest drawback of capitalism is that any fool can have money who don't understand value of knowledge, ethics and manners. Now a days intellectuals are valueless because money and power are success ratio for society. It's hard to find intellectuals.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/drawback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drawback</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fool</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/knowledge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>knowledge</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manners</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sucess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sucess</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>society</span></a></p>
AB<p>On that day<br>the humble people will come.<br>Those who had no place<br>in the books and poems<br>of the apolitical <a href="https://social.coop/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a>,<br>yet, every day, brought them<br>their bread and milk,<br>their eggs and tortillas,<br>those who mended their clothes,<br>who drove their cars,<br>who cared for their dogs and tended their gardens,<br>who worked for them,<br>and they’ll ask:<br>‘What did you do when the poor<br>suffered, when the tenderness and life<br>was snuffed out of them?’.</p><p><a href="https://mronline.org/2024/10/18/how-to-do-a-conjunctural-analysis-the-forty-second-newsletter-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mronline.org/2024/10/18/how-to</span><span class="invisible">-do-a-conjunctural-analysis-the-forty-second-newsletter-2024/</span></a></p>
Dana Williams<p>If anyone's looking for an excellent biography or critical evaluation of the work of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/sociologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sociologist</span></a> C. Wright Mills (author of The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/PowerElite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerElite</span></a>, Causes of World War 3, etc.), I highly recommend <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/StanleyAronowitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StanleyAronowitz</span></a>'s Taking It Big: C. Wright Mills & the Making of Political <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a>.</p><p>It assesses Mills's major works & how he continuously worked to make public interventions, during a repressive political era in the US (1940s & 1950s), at odds w/ the Stalinist left & liberal apologists. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reading</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.<br> -- Albert Einstein</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/AlbertEinstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlbertEinstein</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Geniuses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geniuses</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/ProblemSolving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProblemSolving</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/BWCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BWCA</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/RoseFalls" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoseFalls</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Minnesota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Minnesota</span></a></p>
Zelestian PhD memes<p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/misunderstanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>misunderstanding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/kind" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>kind</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdstudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdstudent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratestudent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratestudent</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctorate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctorate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/motivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>motivation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>memes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdmotivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdmotivation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdmeme" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdmeme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdmemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdmemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdstudentlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdstudentlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/phdtroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>phdtroll</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratemotivation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratemotivation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratememe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratememe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratememes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratememes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratelife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratelife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratestudentlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratestudentlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/doctoratetroll" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>doctoratetroll</span></a></p>
ZNet (unofficial)<p>Antonio <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gramsci" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gramsci</span></a> emphasized that everyone has intellectual potential, distinguishing between traditional and organic intellectuals, who represent their own classes.</p><p>He believed <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> should address societal needs and achieve cultural hegemony, where leadership gains popular consent.</p><p>Gramsci's ideas highlight today's deeper societal crises, reflecting a period of uncertainty where old systems are failing, and new ones have yet to emerge.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a><br><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dear-west-your-age-of-monsters-has-begun/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">znetwork.org/znetarticle/dear-</span><span class="invisible">west-your-age-of-monsters-has-begun/</span></a></p>
bs2<p>> But the category of men who formulate claims, and every thing else, the men who have the monopoly of language, is a category of privileged people. They are not the ones to say that privilege is unworthy to be desired. They don't think so and, in any case, it would be indecent for them to say it.</p><p> --- <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/SimoneWeil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimoneWeil</span></a> </p><p> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/SocialPrivilege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialPrivilege</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.jp/tags/MonopolyOfLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonopolyOfLanguage</span></a> ..</p>
:mima_rule: Mima-sama<p>I wonder what's the "<a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/MSG" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MSG</a> of the <a href="https://makai.chaotic.ninja/tags/intellectuals" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#intellectuals</a>" :satrithink:<span><br><br>RE: </span><a href="https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9sxk0jycokea4vt1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9sxk0jycokea4vt1</a></p>
Livia<p>Intellectuals' minds shine in a contrasting scene with a glittering city skyline</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ideas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ideas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/compassion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compassion</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/understanding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>understanding</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cityskyline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cityskyline</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/contrast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contrast</span></a></p>
:rss: Hacker News<p>Carl Newport on his PhD experience at MIT: How I learn to concentrate<br><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/how-i-learned-to-concentrate" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/culture/office-s</span><span class="invisible">pace/how-i-learned-to-concentrate</span></a><br><a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/ycombinator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ycombinator</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>productivity</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/thinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thinking</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/focus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>focus</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://rss-mstdn.studiofreesia.com/tags/m_i_t_massachusetts_institute_of_technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>m_i_t_massachusetts_institute_of_technology</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a> much, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DonTheCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonTheCon</span></a>? Must be reading his copy of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MeinKampf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MeinKampf</span></a> again. Britt commentary refers to "14 Characteristics of Fascism" by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LawrenceBritt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LawrenceBritt</span></a>.</p><p>10 alarming things <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> has promised to do in a second term</p><p>by Judd Legum<br>and Rebecca Crosby<br>Dec 12, 2023</p><p>1. Trump says he will "abuse power" and be a "dictator" on "day one." </p><p>2. Trump says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElectionFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectionFraud</span></a> in 2020 gives him the power to "terminate" the Constitution<br> [Britt: "Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmearCampaigns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SmearCampaigns</span></a> against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voting</span></a> numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections."]</p><p>3. Trump says he will issue "full pardons" to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/January6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>January6</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/insurrectionists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insurrectionists</span></a><br> [Britt: "Rampant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cronyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cronyism</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a>"]</p><p>4. Trump says he will cut funding to schools that cover subjects he believes are "inappropriate"<br> [Britt: "Disdain for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arts</span></a>"]</p><p>5. Trump says he will legally erase trans people and ban them from military service<br> [Britt: "The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> roles are made more rigid. Opposition to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/abortion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>abortion</span></a> is high, as is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/homophobia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>homophobia</span></a> and anti-<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gay</span></a> legislation."]</p><p>6. Trump says he will end birthright citizenship by executive order<br> [Britt: Identification of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Enemies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Enemies</span></a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Scapegoats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scapegoats</span></a> as a Unifying Cause"]</p><p>7. Trump says he will impose a new 10% tax on all imported goods<br> [Britt: "Powerful and Continuing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nationalism</span></a>"]</p><p>8. Trump says he will investigate NBC and MSNBC for treason and potentially remove the company from public airwaves<br> [Britt: "Controlled <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MassMedia</span></a>"]</p><p>9. Trump says he will demand anyone convicted of selling drugs get the death penalty<br> [Britt: "Obsession with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Punishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Punishment</span></a>"]</p><p>10. Trump says he will order the arrest of all urban homeless and relocate them to federally-run tent cities<br> [Britt: "Disdain for the Recognition of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a>"]</p><p>Full article:<br><a href="https://popular.info/p/10-alarming-things-trump-has-promised" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">popular.info/p/10-alarming-thi</span><span class="invisible">ngs-trump-has-promised</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CharacteristicsOfFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CharacteristicsOfFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RabidRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RabidRight</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChristoFascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristoFascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Project2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Project2025</span></a></p>
mindCreatesMeaning<p>Where are my people? Where are my <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/intentionalcommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intentionalcommunities</span></a> ? Where are are we gathered in actualized <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/community" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>community</span></a> and collaborating in the world?</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/filmmaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filmmaking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/creators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creators</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/creative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>creative</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/sustainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sustainability</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/huntergatherers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>huntergatherers</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/nomad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nomad</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/digitalnomad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalnomad</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/filmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>filmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/podcasting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcasting</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/youtuber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>youtuber</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cinemastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinemastodon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cinematography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinematography</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cinema" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cinema</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/theater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>theater</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/actors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actors</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/directors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>directors</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/philosophers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>philosophers</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hiking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hiking</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/experimentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimentalists</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/bohemia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bohemia</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/tranquility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tranquility</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/consciousness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>consciousness</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/mindfulness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mindfulness</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Safety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Safety</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psychology</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.<br> -- Christopher Morley</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/ChristopherMorley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChristopherMorley</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Life" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Life</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Humor</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Sunset" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sunset</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/LakeSantaFe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LakeSantaFe</span></a> <a href="https://botsin.space/tags/Florida" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Florida</span></a></p>
GW<p>The Deafening Silence of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> in The Fact of Growing Global Conflicts</p><p>Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, on values, or on truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit,” as they used to be termed. But intellectuals should also not shrink from denouncing what they see as destructive of culture values, and truth notably when such destruction claims to be carried out in the name of these “domains of spirit”</p><p><a href="https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-deafening-silence-of-intellectuals-in-the-fact-of-growing-global-conflicts/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-d</span><span class="invisible">eafening-silence-of-intellectuals-in-the-fact-of-growing-global-conflicts/</span></a><br>.</p>
amen zwa, esq.<p>I have met many <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/intelligent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intelligent</span></a> people who are not <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>intellectuals</span></a>, because they are incapable of being but because they refuse to be. It's "to be, or not to be" kind of question.</p>
GW<p>We No Longer Have True <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Intellectuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Intellectuals</span></a> Guiding Us We Only Have <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Influencers</span></a></p><p>Roughly twenty-five percent of adult Americans are so authoritarian, fearful, self-righteous, ignorant, and fanatical on the right that they cannot be persuaded. They would force America under a dictatorship, and they’d think things had improved. They are so obedient to their masters that they will accept and carry out any directive. They will not back down, and they will not disappear.</p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gwfoto.medium.com/we-no-longer-have-true-intellectuals-guiding-us-we-only-have-influencers-f87ec2e81567" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gwfoto.medium.com/we-no-longer</span><span class="invisible">-have-true-intellectuals-guiding-us-we-only-have-influencers-f87ec2e81567</span></a></p>
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