Back in 2004, my AP US History teacher set A People's History by Howard Zinn as our textbook, and had us read The Jungle as a supplementary assignment. It was an eye opening year.
I just finished a low Roman style workbench, and right now I'm building the tools I'll need to hold the wood in place without a vice. I'll eventually buy a vice, but apparently it's better to have no vice than a bad one, and the good ones are too rich for my blood right now. I hope to someday be good enough to make furniture and finish carpentry.
Marx's :clapping hands: Tweets :clapping hands: Would :clapping hands: Have :clapping hands: Looked :eyes: :clapping hands: Like :clapping hands: This :clapping hands::grinning face with sweat::rolling on the floor laughing:
"Science has become the new European religion for both capitalists and Marxists; they are truly inseparable; they are part and parcel of the same culture. So, in both theory and practice, Marxism demands that non-European peoples give up their values, their traditions, their cultural existence altogether. We will all be industrialized science addicts in a Marxist society."
"Distilled to its basic terms, European faith--including the new faith in science--equals a belief that man is God."
"All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things."
As a person who would certainly be dead without modern medicine, I always find it off-putting when people decry scientific thinking and technology as "defying the natural order of all things," as if I was fated to die and my continued existence is merely some aberration.
When you have a whole bunch of dishes to do and you don't want to do them? Hegelian Dialectic.