"And the penalty for a single mis-step, I mean, imagine you have a bad thought or you say a bad thing, is that the end of your career? We're going to dispose of high ability people because they told an off-color joke in the wrong setting? That's insane. You might have somebody on the verge of a cure for cancer, but if they told a joke that offended somebody's gender sensibilities, that person could be out of a job. That's insane. It's important to understand, that level of intolerance, that level of fragility, has to be driven out of the institutions that require these high agency individuals."
"I think that what's really going on is that there's been a monopoly, effectively, on a narrative held by the collection of major institutional voices. The true spectrum of thought is far broader than people have been led to believe."
"What works … is when you're living through what I call Left-Carthyism, where the modern Left, which is my side of the aisle, has gotten so completely insane, that people are starved for normal conversation as if it were samizdat in the former Soviet Union."
In the 1960s, Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong came to feel that the current party leadership in China, as in the Soviet Union,
was moving too far in a revisionist direction, with an emphasis on
expertise rather than on ideological purity. Mao’s own position in
government had weakened after the failure of his “Great Leap Forward”
(1958-60) and the economic crisis that followed. Mao gathered a group of
radicals, including his wife Jiang Qing and defense minister Lin Biao,
to help him attack current party leadership and reassert his authority.
Mao
launched the so-called Cultural Revolution (known in full as the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution) in August 1966, at a meeting of the
Plenum of the Central Committee. He shut down the nation’s schools,
calling for a massive youth mobilization to take current party leaders
to task for their embrace of bourgeois values and lack of revolutionary
spirit. In the months that followed, the movement escalated quickly as
the students formed paramilitary groups called the Red Guards and
attacked and harassed members of China’s elderly and intellectual
population. A personality cult quickly sprang up around Mao, similar to
that which existed for Josef Stalin, with different factions of the
movement claiming the true interpretation of Maoist thought.
35 Insanely Stunning And Unique Sea Slug Images That Will Mesmerize You
Wow! Who else has the urge to go diving and see these exquisite sea critters in person? Did you know that there are more than 3000 known species of sea slugs (Nudibranch)? Each one is so colorful and unusual, it was hard to limit it to just 35 images!