Read this bit the other day in A History of Philosophy:
And keep in mind that this book was published in 1946. And now look at today's newspaper. Today's AMERICAN newspaper, that it. It is just stunning to think that we have not only made so little progress in the 72 years from when these words were first published...but that we have made so much regress.
We now live in an America where you can argue against evolution and not be laughed at. We now live in an America where you can say that man-made climate change is a myth. We now live in an America where black people can be accosted for knocking on a neighbor's front door, for entering their own apartment building, for selling water.... We now live in an America where a woman is in imminent danger of losing the right to determine the future of her own body, where a woman's sworn word is regarded as trivial....
I fear for the future of this country.
I fear for the future of this world.
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