“Every great thinker is someone else’s moron” – Umberto Eco
“Every great thinker is someone else’s moron.”
Umberto Eco
Author Archive for: Jan
Entries by Jan
Umberto Eco on Belief and Doubt
“When men stop believing in God, it isn’t that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.”
Umberto Eco
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire” – Umberto Eco
“Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.”
Umberto Eco
Political Power and Communication – Quote by Umberto Eco
“Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d’état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes…. Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.”
Umberto Eco
Hermann Rotermund on ARD Tagesschau: The Gently Authoritarian Truth in Your Living Room
“The tone is gently authoritarian, leaving no doubt that this is the way the world is and no other way [….]Proclaimers of unassailable truths [….] The broadcast gives the impression of a short devotional in a living room chapel.”
Hermann Rotermund
Entertained Not Informed by News by Neil Postman
“I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to say that when news is packaged as entertainment, that is the inevitable result. And in saying that the television news show entertains but does not inform, I am saying something far more serious than that we are being deprived of authentic information. I am saying we are losing our sense of what it means to be well informed.”
Neil Postman
Authority from the Governed and Liberty – G. Edward Griffin
“When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.”
G. Edward Griffin
Henrik Svensmark on the True Influence of the Sun on Climate – Revealing Insights!
“My work is about the effect of the sun on climate, and if the sun has a decisive influence on climate, that means that the influence of CO2 is smaller. That doesn’t fit with the narrative that CO2 is supposed to be such a dominant factor in global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a UN organization that admits members based on area, political affiliation, and in some cases merit. My work is in fact ignored by it. In the Climategate emails, that went public in 2011, I noticed an email discussing possible authors for the IPCC’s fifth assessment report. One qualification for an author had to be that he was ‘anti-Svensmark’.”
Henrik Svensmark
Zbigniew Brzezinski Reveals the Three Imperatives of Imperial Geostrategy
“The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.”
Zbigniew Brzeziński
Christine Prayon on Satire, Corona, and the Ukraine War – A Provocative Truth Quote
“I have become increasingly uncomfortable with the way the major socially defining issues have been handled since Corona. I’ve also talked to the people in charge there and emphasized that I don’t want to participate in exposing dissenters to ridicule. Satire must not participate in narrowing the discourse. And now this is exactly what is happening again with the war in Ukraine. Narratives and positions of groups that are high up in the social hierarchy are being repeated incessantly, and at the same time the mood is being set against those who think differently. In my opinion, this no longer has anything to do with satire.”
Christine Prayon alias Birte Schneider