Skills rest in your mind not in the props you make use of.
Why should self-indulgent nonsense - whatever its professed political orientation - be lauded as the height of scholarly achievement?
And I'm a stodgy old scientist who believes, naively, that there exists an external world, that there exist objective truths about that world, and that my job is to discover some of them.
Anyone who believes that the laws of physics are mere social conventions is invited to try transgressing those conventions from the windows of my apartment. (I live on the twenty-first floor).
A mode of thought does not become 'critical' simply by attributing that label to itself, but by virtue of its content.
You are what you are because of what goes into your mind.
Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be synonymous with selfishness. . . But the main reason why so many people in power have always disliked individualism is because it is individualists who are ever keenest to prevent the abuse of authority.
Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal.