#historical-perspectives

#historical-perspectives

Luce's famous 1941 essay "The American Century" laid out an idealistic vision of a global era dominated by a nation only recently freed from colonialism.

The experience of frequent and ongoing internal conflict is a perfectly normal part of the human condition. No exceptions; every epoch and culture has struggled with this.

Stellan Skarsgard described Ingmar Bergman as manipulative and noted his past Nazi sympathies, stating, 'He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died.' Skarsgard pointed out that Bergman had a strange outlook on people, believing that some were unworthy, which he felt influenced Bergman’s interactions with others.

In psychology, anyone who gets involved in or tries to talk in an analytic, careful way about religion is immediately branded a meathead; a mystic; an intuitive, touchy-feely sort of moron.” - Robert Hogan (1979)

Shockley argued that people with IQs below 100 should be paid to undergo sterilization; a belief that reflects his severe misjudgment about human dignity and genetic worth.