Thought for the Day...

"The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to apathy and indifference, the I-don’t-care reaction, or to a more intensified desire to study and to understand. Unfortunately, the first reaction is the more popular one. The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the sake of our democracy, based on freedom and individualism, we have to bring ourselves back to study again and again. Otherwise, we can become easy victims of a well-planned verbal attack on our minds and consciences."


— Joost A.M. Meerloo

 

Birthdays:

1527 Luca Cambiaso

1680 Jean-Baptiste Loeillet: Trio Sonata Op. 1 no. 2 in G Major - II. Allegro

1786 Carl Maria von Weber: overture to Oberon

1787 Louis-Jacques Daguerre

1797 Sojourner Truth

1836 William Schwenck Gilbert: I am the Monarch of the Sea

1860 Ignacy Jan Paderewski: Mélodie in G-flat major, Op. 16 No. 2

 

Miscellany:

FOCUSED PROTECTION: The Great Barrington Declaration

SCIENCE, ETHICS, AND THE NUREMBERG CODE: Declaration of Canadian Physicians for Science and Truth

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