f the Jew didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him as failed ideas and evil need a scapegoat to redirect attention away from their lack of success. The Jew is the convenient other for all types of charlatans, of which there is no short supply.
The great Hegelian lie is that history has direction. This is no more true than the intended directionality of history. Cause and effect eschews such simplification.
A deep concern is not that we may never learn the truth but that so many people have no desire or need to ever want to find it.
A person whose sole motivation is pleasure in the afterlife will likely do great harm to themselves in present life as they chase a reward for goodness instead of acting with moral intent for the righteous act in and of itself.
It's difficult to not take seriously the notion that the success of the American Revolution wasn’t so much a patriotic victory but a move by the British to minimize their losses.
One can always rely on mathematics to find a safe way of hiding a model from criticism if the evidence in its support is lacking.
The devil is always in the quality and validity of the assumptions.
The success of the British Empire lay with its ability to delegate. It therefore made great use of local networks of administration, designated ‘poobahs’, foreign mercenaries and regional businessmen. The failure of the Mongol empire outside China itself (with the Yuan dynasty) is that it never came to terms with this idea.
