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imprecise: 07.07´07 (by johann Smari)
The Big Five Personality Test

I’m more familiar with the Myers-Briggs/Jung test, but this one scores pretty accurately in relation to my MB personality type. I guess an INTP translates to an RCOEI.

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todgeweiht: We probably have no duty to like Beethoven or hate Coca-Cola, but it is at least conceivable that we have a duty to distrust the state. Thoreau wrote of the duty of civil disobedience; Whitman said, “Resist much, obey little,” With those liberals, and with many others, disobedience is a good thing in itself. In small social entities—English parishes, Swiss cantons—the machine that governs can sometimes be identified with the community that is governed. But when the social entity grows large, becomes a megalopolis, a state, a federation, the governing machine becmes remote, impersonal, even inhuman. It takes money from us for purposes we do not seem to saction; it treats us as abstract statistics; it controls an army; it supports a police force whose function does not always appear to be protective. This, of course, is a generalization that may be regarded as prejudiced nonsense. I personally do not trust politicians or statesmen—very few writers and artists do—and consider that men enter politics for the negative reason that they have little talent for anything else and the positive reason that power is always delicious. Against this must be set the truth that government makes healthful laws to protect the community and, in the great international world, can be the voice of our traditions and aspirations. But the fact remains that, in our own century, the state has been responsible for most of our nightmares. No single individual or free association of individuals could have achieved the repressive techniques of Nazi Germany, the slaughterhouse of intensive bombing, or the atomic bomb. War departments can think in terms of megadeaths, while it is as much as the average man can do to entertain dreams of killing the boss. The modern state, whether in a totalitarian or a democratic country, has far too much power, and we are probably right to fear it. It is significant that the nightmare books of our age have not been abut new Draculas and Frankensteins but about what may be termed dystopias—inverted utopias, in which an imagined megalithic government brings human life to an exquisite pitch of misery. —Anthony Burgess, ”The Clockwork Condition,” The New Yorker, pp.74. June 4 & 11, 2012
allesistverbunden: Daniel Keller / Nik Kosmas
deadsymmetry: Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten, The Persistence of Suppressed Thoughts II
unknownskywalker: Tokyo Skytree The 2,080-foot Skytree skyscraper in Tokyo has finally opened to the general public after four years of construction at a cost of 65 billion yen [£516 million].
cosascool: This is the Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
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