1. Humans in their current form will never colonize another planet. Only some post-human species will live permanently off-earth.
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2. Human will never encounter a sentient species from another planet.
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3. Marshall McLuhan was right about 80% of the time.
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4. Plato's dialogues aren't really dialogues but disguised monologues because he stacked the deck against opponents.
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5. Buddhism is far & away the most rational religion but its very rationality should make us wary.
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6. Anti-racism in Canada lags far behind the United States, maybe by decades.
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7. The project of anti-racism has to be seen as part of a larger movement of decolonization.
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8. Superhero movies and comics should be made for kids.
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9. In a sane society, Ta-Nehisi Coates would be seen as a centrist & realist, not a radical & pessimist.
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10. Mel Brooks movies usually have about 10 minutes of good jokes and a lot of dross. https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/920099044143386626 …
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12. The French were right to love Jerry Lewis. Also: Edgar Allan Poe, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, Philip K. Dick, etc.
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13. Social democracy is the logical culmination of classical liberalism.
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14. The current turn among liberals against monopolies is misguided. We need to socialize large enterprises, not break them up.
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16. Our best case scenario is that we move from the realm of pathos to the realm of tragedy.
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17. Nabokov & Kubrick, dismissed as cold nihilists, are in fact emotionally engaged moralists.
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18. Reactionary Catholicism is one of the best seedbeds for creating great culture.
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