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Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was früher die großen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, der Glaube an Friede, Menschenrechte und Demokratie zu bieten hatten. Der Pragmatismus hält uns davon ab, zu Verbrechern zu werden, oder er macht uns zu solchen, wenn es nötig ist. Er legitimiert das Bestehen von Rechtssystem, Familie und Arbeit, er lässt uns nett sein und empfiehlt, sich ein angenehmes Äußeres zu erwerben. Nachdem wir uns aller Zwänge nach und nach erledigt haben, sorgt ein einziger Betreuer für uns: Pragmatismus. ↗
It believes that all “powers” belonging to the people of Cambodia which is its idea of democracy. The other part of its ideology is nationalism since it wants to protect its “sovereignty”. It also is left wing in its view since it believes in getting people particularly those who are ”young” jobs which the LDP will create by “attracting local and foreign investors in all sectors.” Two other examples of its left wing ideology is trying to find ways of stopping the powerfully rich who grab land want to try to give it to “landless people”. The second point is putting the money of the public society into constructing “schools and hospitals and promote the wellbeing of rural people.” Another example of its right wing ideology is that it wants to create laws and “mechanisms” that will fight “corruption”. "People in one country should direct their leader that come from their selection,so that freedom is useful in that country ↗
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind. ↗
All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself. ↗
#nationalism #war #life
The numbers were, at best, guesstimates, and all three men knew it. The relevant figure would ultimately be the one that represented the most they could possibly ask from Congress without raising too many questions. Whatever that sum turned out to be, they knew they could count on (Interim Assistant Secretary of the Treasury) Kashkari to perform some sort of mathematical voodoo to justify it: ↗
When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forget about the true causes of their poverty, just act, contribute money, so that you will not have to think! ↗
#money #philosophy #politics #money
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends. ↗
The last time I heard an orthodox Marxist statement that was music to my ears was from a member of the Rwanda Patriotic Front, during the mass slaughter in the country. 'The terms Hutu and Tutsi,' he said severely, 'are merely ideological constructs, describing different relationships to the means and mode of production.' But of course! ↗
#ideology #marxism #rwanda #rwandan-genocide #rwandan-patriotic-front
