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| 44f916f | the Super Structure Principle may be stated as follows: The power of your story is directly proportional to the readers' experience of it, and the readers' experience is directly proportional to the soundness of the structure. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 27cdff8 | Start by asking if this is writer's laziness as opposed to writer's block. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 010f0c7 | If you up your skill and take more chances, your odds of success increase. | James Scott Bell | ||
| b07c01a | Someone with less talent who works hard often outperforms the gifted. | James Scott Bell | ||
| aea72ed | The Care Package is a relationship the Lead has with someone else, in which he shows his concern, through word or deed, for that character's well being. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 3d82e5e | The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They're there to stop the other people." - Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture" | James Scott Bell | ||
| e68ee25 | Having a Care Package relationship keeps a character from being completely selfish. | James Scott Bell | ||
| 5b9156f | A fundamental mistake that urban planners made, Jacobs claims, was to infer functional order from the duplication and regimentation of building forms: that is, from purely visual order. Most complex systems, on the contrary, do not display a surface regularity; their order must be sought at a deeper level. "To see complex systems of functional order as order, and not as chaos, takes understanding. The leaves dropping from the trees in the a.. | James C. Scott | ||
| e63c57f | The larger the pile of rubble you leave behind, the larger your place in the historical record! | archeology civilization garbage | James C. Scott | |
| 601cfba | Encouragement of sedentarism is perhaps the oldest "state project," a project related to the second-oldest state project of taxation." | nomad nomadism state taxation | James C. Scott | |
| ff3198b | After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat the experience. | James C. Scott | ||
| eb7a484 | It is time someone put in a good word for the petite bourgeoise. Unlike the working class and capitalists, who have never lack for spokespersons, the petite bourgeoise rarely, if ever, speaks for itself. | freedom life petite-bourgeoise trade-unions work | James C. Scott | |
| eaab2d5 | Center for Disease Control in Atlanta is a striking case in point. Its network of sample hospitals allowed it to first "discover"--in the epidemiological sense--such hitherto unknown diseases as toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease, and AIDS." | James C. Scott | ||
| 539d251 | The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies. | bureaucracy capitalism freedom life petite-bourgeoise private-sector public-sector trade-unions work | James C. Scott | |
| 4f8a808 | What is inadmissible, both morally and scientifically, is the hubris that pretends to understand the behavior of human agents without for a moment listening systematically to how they understand what they are doing and how they explain themselves. | James C. Scott | ||
| 2302074 | immanent in their willingness to break the law was not so much a desire to sow chaos as a compulsion to instate a more just legal order. To the extent that our current rule of law is more capacious and emancipatory than its predecessors were, we owe much of that gain to lawbreakers. | James C. Scott | ||
| 808be9e | Much history as well as popular imagination not only erases their contingency but implicitly attributes to historical actors intentions and consciousness they could not have possibly had...Once a significant historical event is codified, it travels a sort of condensation symbol and, unless we are very careful, takes on a false logic and order that does a grave injustice to how it was experienced at the time. | James C. Scott | ||
| 0bff686 | Gossip is perhaps the most familiar and elementary form of disguised popular aggression. Though its use is hardly confined to attacks by subordinates on their superiors, it represents a relatively safe social sanction. Gossip, almost by definition has no identifiable author, but scores of eager retailers who can claim they are just passing on the news. Should the gossip--and here I have in mind malicious gossip--be challenged, everyone can .. | James C. Scott | ||
| fb65547 | modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in imperial rhetoric, as a "civilizing mission." | James C. Scott | ||
| 38631bd | If religion is so bad, what should be done about it? It should be eradicated. According to Sam Harris, belief in Christianity is like belief in slavery. "I would be the first to admit that the prospects for eradicating religion in our time do not seem good. Still the same could have been said about efforts to abolish slavery at the end of the eighteenth century."6 But" | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 0785366 | My conclusion is that contrary to popular belief, atheism is not primarily an intellectual revolt, it is a moral revolt. Atheists don't find God invisible so much as objectionable. They aren't adjusting their desires to the truth, but rather the truth to fit their desires. This is something we can all identify with. It is a temptation even for believers. We want to be saved as long as we are not saved from our sins. We are quite willing to .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 04dfb9b | Hitler was a racist in a way that Mussolini wasn't, with FDR occupying a position somewhere between the two of them. FDR was not an anti-Semite, as Hitler was, but he did share Hitler's low view of Asians and blacks. During World War II, FDR ordered that many Japanese Americans, under suspicion of disloyalty, be interned in camps. There is, of course, an argument in wartime for holding captive those who pose a security risk. My point, howev.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| da33c47 | Imagine the horror of Obama and his aides, therefore, when one of the leading academic champions of Obamacare, economist Jonathan Gruber of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, decided to reveal the con, even to the point of confessing it was a con. Gruber himself received $2 million in consulting fees related to Obamacare. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| cae75b1 | Gruber had none of these motives. Gruber's candor about Obamacare was not caused by the desire to be a whistle-blower nor by a drinking spree nor by the prospect of gain. Rather, it was caused by Gruber's arrogance. The man is a smug self-promoter who wanted to take credit for his participation in a clever racket. Speaking to fellow academics and liberal political activists, Gruber apparently thought he was in a room of thieves cackling abo.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a0137e5 | Gruber said that Obamacare was sold based on lies. He said the lies only worked because of the stupidity of the American people. Of one key Obamacare provision, Gruber said it was a "very clever exploitation of the lack of economic understanding of the American voter." He said that while the administration promised transparency, lack of transparency was the key to getting the legislation through. Basically Gruber's message to his fellow con.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 32670db | At first the left tried to dismiss Gruber by saying he wasn't an important architect of Obamacare. But earlier this same Gruber had been hailed by Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and others as the Oracle of Obamacare. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6c41ba0 | Hardly anyone recognizes this, but Alinsky and the Alinsky method is the hidden force behind the 2008 economic meltdown. The meltdown was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression; it was the main cause of median wealth in the United States in the subsequent three years declining nearly 40 percent. While the meltdown is routinely attributed to Wall Street "greed," its real cause was government and activist pressure on banks and b.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 65b79e7 | Obama's claims about teachers and CEOs gets to a broader puzzle about how a capitalist society assigns rewards. At first glance, it seems that there is no relationship between merit and reward. Athletes and entertainers, who provide services much less indispensable than teachers and doctors, earn vastly more than either of those two professions. Earlier I mentioned the example of the parking lot guy who parks all the cars and makes money fo.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 3e4d05f | She is more than just a liar; she and her husband Bill are corrupt and known to be corrupt, going back to their Arkansas days. Just prior to leaving the White House, the Clintons pardoned a notorious fugitive who had fled the country to escape prosecution on racketeering and tax fraud. Pardons don't come free--the man's family and friends poured millions of dollars into the Clinton coffers in exchange. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a6f677c | Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 6e27895 | Females between sixteen and twenty-four years old face a higher risk of being sexually assaulted than any other age group. Most victims of campus rape are preyed upon when they are in their first or second year of college, usually by someone they know. And it's during the initial days and weeks of a student's freshman year, when she is in the midst of negotiating the fraught transition from girlhood to womanhood, that she is probably in the.. | Jon Krakauer | ||
| 6be9d6e | Sometimes reparations is used to justify a feeding frenzy in which minority claimants simply raid the U.S. Treasury en masse while government bureaucrats facilitate a large transfer of wealth from the taxpayer to these so-called historical victims. A scandalous example of this is the Pigford case. Some ninety-one black farmers had sued the U.S. government alleging a legacy of bias against African Americans. Rather than settle the suit and p.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| c72be8f | In this respect, Obama is fairly typical of progressives more generally. The evidence for this claim is in Arthur Brooks's study, Who Really Cares. Brooks bases his conclusions on data drawn from a wide range of sources that keep track of philanthropy. Brooks divides America into four groups: religious conservatives, religious liberals, secular conservatives, and secular liberals. He finds that religious conservatives are the most generous .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f92841e | This is a book unlike any other on Barack Obama. It is not the typical effusive book of apostolic praise, but neither is it a crude bashing of Obama. Rather, it is an effort to understand Obama, to discover what motivates him, and to formulate a theory that explains his actions in the White House. It offers a completely original theory for what drives Obama, and yet remarkably the theory is derived from Obama's own autobiography and Obama's.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 9ef6323 | Let's begin with this notion that society, not entrepreneurs, is primarily responsible for the success of an enterprise. What is the evidence for that? Actually there is very little. Consider the great inventions and innovations of the nineteenth century that made possible the Industrial Revolution and the rising standard of living that propelled America into the front ranks of the world by the mid-twentieth century. Who built the telegraph.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 49276ce | Businesses call this "profit." Marx called it "surplus value." For Marx, the crucial question is: Who gets this surplus value? Who is entitled to the profit that businesses accumulate? Marx insisted that this profit belongs wholly to the workers. They earned it, so they deserve to share it. In reality, however, the entrepreneur or the capitalist gets it. If he has investors, they too share it. Marx regarded this as the most scandalous form .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 1a31b2a | The Sioux position, conveyed by White Face, is that the land needs to be returned; it needs to become tribal land again. White Face showed me what used to be several ancient sacred sites "where the Great Spirits dwell" and she wants those sites restored, so Sioux people can once again commune with the spirits. I reminded White Face that before the Sioux, there were Cheyenne Indians and other tribes on that land. So if America stole the land.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 9e3443e | As I was completing this book, I saw news reports quoting NASA chief Charles Bolden announcing that from now on the primary mission of America's space agency would be to improve relations with the Muslim world. Come again? Bolden said he got the word directly from the president. "He wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contrib.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| f718cf4 | Rather, the issue is whether it is right to have a mosque and Islamic center in virtually the exact spot where so many Americans were killed in the name of Islamic holy war. I don't think it is right, any more than I would support the idea of a neo-Nazi recruiting center at Auschwitz. My sympathies in this case are not with religiously deprived Muslims, but rather with Debra Burlingame, a spokesperson for a 9/11 victims group. "Barack Obama.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 985e47d | In July 2010, reports surfaced in the British press that the Obama administration favored the release of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. This was an eye-opener, because when Scotland released Megrahi from prison and sent him home to Libya in August 2009, the Obama administration publicly protested the decision. Obama reaffirmed his position on Megrahi's release when British prime minister David Cameron came to visit in July 20.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| fc3ffa1 | Another way to put it is that the majority must not use its power to trample on minority rights. The Founders were very concerned about this. What if the majority decides, for instance, to confiscate the property of the minority? The Founders insisted that "tyranny of the majority" is just as dangerous as having a one-man tyrant. In some ways, it's more dangerous. It's bad enough to be oppressed by one man--even worse to be oppressed by the.. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| a4fc2c1 | At Columbia, Obama wrote an article in a student weekly, Sundial, calling for an end to the U.S. military industrial complex. Obama's article was a response to the so-called nuclear freeze movement that was sweeping American campuses at the time. As an undergraduate at Dartmouth in the early 1980s, I remember well the paranoia of the freeze activists, who seemed convinced that the world was about to end unless their nuclear freeze solution .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| 32aaa2d | Obama is also directing the U.S. government to invest billions of dollars in solar and wind energy. In addition, he is using bailout leverage to compel the Detroit auto companies to build small, "green" cars, even though no one in the government has investigated whether consumers are interested in buying small, "green" cars--the Obama administration just believes they should. All these measures, Obama recognizes, are expensive. The cap and .. | Dinesh D'Souza | ||
| d139b3f | Today we think of fascism's most famous representative as Adolf Hitler. Yet as I mentioned earlier, Hitler didn't consider himself a fascist. Rather, he saw himself as a National Socialist. The two ideologies are related in that they are both based on collectivism and centralized state power. They emerge, one might say, from a common point of origin. Yet they are also distinct; fascism, for instance, had no intrinsic connection with anti-Se.. | Dinesh D'Souza |