#jackson lears

Politička historija cigarete

The implications of this conclusion are fundamentally transformative. Emphasizing what human beings have in common with the rest of the natural world does not reduce humans to passive mechanisms—not if the rest of the natural world is an animated, active mechanism. And a clearer understanding of our relationship to that world requires more than masses of Big Data; it also demands a sensitivity to the ways that organisms engage with the contingent circumstances of their environment in historical time. That environment includes religions and ideologies and economic systems as well as air and soil and water.

Only a secular providentialist could ask what it means ‘to be on the right side of history’.

The kind of person I admire most would be one who becomes extraordinarily good at doing a lot of things but maintains a tear-stained countenance.

Few social laboratories could more clearly reveal the tensions between chauvinist impulses and humanist aspirations, or between careerist plotting and disinterested service, or - perhaps most important - between the Enlightenment ideal of intellectual openness and the demands for secrecy made by the national security state.

America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.