<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:27:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@blackliberal/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[German collective guilt]]></title><description><![CDATA[Long before I started my career in Modern Languages I was always attracted to German culture and its success as a society. Regardless of what happened in World War II, I always loved German culture, and]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/germany/@blackliberal/germancollectiveguilt-3y98gliray</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/germany/@blackliberal/germancollectiveguilt-3y98gliray</guid><category><![CDATA[germany]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:01:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/X37EMMe7x111F9ckRd9sY4ABhDJKGqeQDzPsMbimEaKREMxgK6nqJAKYgZGvniwo4qzT5hNUPL2jbCjZ1vnDUaYLpFuQyHLQh8W86?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free Market: China and Vietnam]]></title><description><![CDATA[Whether we like it or not China and Vietnam are two successful examples of the political and economic evolution from a closed communist system to a more open society, with a very successful free market]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@blackliberal/freemarketchinaandvietnam-q7evkkayot</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@blackliberal/freemarketchinaandvietnam-q7evkkayot</guid><category><![CDATA[economy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2018 21:11:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwW1DBhSHD5wfGVzdKe5spA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom and society]]></title><description><![CDATA["In short, the isolated man cannot be conscious of his freedom. To be free for man as such by another man, by all the men around him. Freedom is not, therefore, an act of isolation, but of mutual]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@blackliberal/freedomandsociety-9bhdda862a</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@blackliberal/freedomandsociety-9bhdda862a</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jul 2018 15:42:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwW1DBhSHD5wfGVzdD6Z3ft?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value and what set it]]></title><description><![CDATA[The question of why things have the value they have or what the word "value" really means is a problem that has occupied the minds of economists since the beginning of their discipline: Why is]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@blackliberal/valueandwhatsetit-kfmkaci4gs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@blackliberal/valueandwhatsetit-kfmkaci4gs</guid><category><![CDATA[economy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 15:04:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwW1DBhSHD5wfGVzd6Z2DXc?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peterson, pronouns, and culturalmarxism]]></title><description><![CDATA[A year ago when I read Michael D. O'Brein's Plague Journal, a dystopia whose story takes us to a Canada ruled by totalitarian gender ideologues, the main protagonist is a father who has to flee to the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/society/@blackliberal/petersonpronounsandculturalmarxism-11525zaqaa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/society/@blackliberal/petersonpronounsandculturalmarxism-11525zaqaa</guid><category><![CDATA[society]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2018 00:04:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MG5aEodBkvVPpPVTZ24JiCMr3Hc7Qy6mENCfWVii3cWnDbgw1iEJUNAfq4QqM6tiQnHT5iXxC5GKnkCbjyjLZ3fWC9T9EyRcA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vaccines, thimerosal and autism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Due to the sudden growth of anti-vaccine movements around the world, the Australian government has launched a No Jab, No Pay program, which requires parents who do not vaccinate their children to pay a]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/vaccinesthimerosalandauthism-iooipyr8ce</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/vaccinesthimerosalandauthism-iooipyr8ce</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 17:19:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwW1DBhSHD5wfGVzcz1VPPL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Post-Truth: Language]]></title><description><![CDATA[The language of post-truth is the language that was defined at the XIII International Seminar on Language and Journalism held recently in San Millán de la Cogolla. The relationship that this convention]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/truth/@blackliberal/post-truthlanguage-hhosfwrebn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/truth/@blackliberal/post-truthlanguage-hhosfwrebn</guid><category><![CDATA[truth]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2018 01:49:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQbWfyX8otKGyaQnDxDuPHtzadbcqwnxNW3LM6rD2aruFu1aAsXCyFB2cEA4nNWyKCswsy4QkYMX1FACEwpYbW5jgfiKXun8uJytssXSRhSNPkcE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brief reflection: Freedom of expression?]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as freedom of expression. Today, in a world dominated by "post-truths", one can no longer say what one thinks or believes, without fearing to be the victim of a widespread]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@blackliberal/briefreflectionfreedomofexpression-tyxt4w3g2k</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/freedom/@blackliberal/briefreflectionfreedomofexpression-tyxt4w3g2k</guid><category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2018 12:41:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwW1DBhSHD5wfGVzcsTxZF4?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fractional Banking and consuming society]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a world where the basis for growth is materialism and consumption, one could say that today's society is a true reflection of what happens when capitalism is faithfully implemented... but what if it]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/society/@blackliberal/fractionalbankingandconsumingsociety-wmjhmnxoms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/society/@blackliberal/fractionalbankingandconsumingsociety-wmjhmnxoms</guid><category><![CDATA[society]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 23:56:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9WjP3makSpmvzsbuQSNaXQGnixiuJjk5H1k6DaE7oodrDZKdTYjZ5WA6Vh7YZujErvCxQzGyqgTqcXp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of world starvation]]></title><description><![CDATA[Breakthoguhs in science have developed new technologies and economic systems that are doing working better and better, hunger could disappear by the year 2005. According to FAO: Food and Agriculture]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@blackliberal/theendofstarvation-t1qf27yofs</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/economy/@blackliberal/theendofstarvation-t1qf27yofs</guid><category><![CDATA[economy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2018 14:50:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwW1DBhSHD5wfGVzcRHqEfx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[About Tolitarianism, socialism and ignorance...]]></title><description><![CDATA[No society in today's world, both past and present, has been immune to indoctrination as a mean of control from an extremist ideal, or to the simple fact of power and totalitarianism. Some societies have]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/abouttolitarianismsocialismandignorance-9b95nstc6y</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/abouttolitarianismsocialismandignorance-9b95nstc6y</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 22:52:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8SzwQbWfyX8otKGyaQnDxDuPHtzadbcqwnxNW3LM6rD2aruFu1aAsXCyFB2cEA4nNWyKCswsy4QkYMX1FACEwpYbW5jgfiKXun8uJytssXSRhKprvTx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[TEDx: PEDOPHILLIA]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don't you think it's incredible how much money is invested to bring a message that sells the unnatural, the sick and the decadent as normal and admirable? This is the world we live in today, where facts]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/tedxpedophillia-422wazslxa</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/tedxpedophillia-422wazslxa</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 04:30:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHRfvmtd53nmEJ94xpKydwmbSC5H5svBACH7ytdfki2G4ApT44AEuYWNtKhaJijMBjyafb3NaiKq1PdbbgokTGwtNzf5myEuRQGDT3VC8X1dmxUQqQ22WtDDKiN1EdieJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Holocaust: Israel's excuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[79 years after the Holocaust, the systematic mass persecution and murder of six million Jews and other ethnic groups - the exact number is unknown - organized by the Nazi regime and its fascist followers.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/-soa0dxg5zc</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steempress/@blackliberal/-soa0dxg5zc</guid><category><![CDATA[steempress]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 13:37:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHRfvmtd53nmEJ94xpKydwmbSC5H5svBACH813wW7a8HYPidvsYBRXxXLEQXz3R2RjFSBNnvGyArriavcjT1VLwU1eYEWQ522s4k74cBw98E7T9mpyYVaC2xXR5VL9s7L?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organ trafficking: a new form of slavery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Human organ transplantation is one of the most terrible scourges of today's society. It is a form of slavery that affects the poorest. In the least developed countries, especially in Asia, many people]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/trafficking/@blackliberal/organtraffickinganewformofslavery-1dgqfkdrxo</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/trafficking/@blackliberal/organtraffickinganewformofslavery-1dgqfkdrxo</guid><category><![CDATA[trafficking]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 00:45:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MG5aEodBkvVPpPVTZ24JiCMr3Hc7Qy6mENCfWVii3cWnDbgw1iEJUNAfq4QqM6tiQnHT5iXxC5GKnkCbkTGJszU3bQuuFDkGv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brief reflection: The importance of reading]]></title><description><![CDATA[I start from the idea that the intellectual value of a man is directly related to the number of books he read; if he read only one intellectual book he is like a ten-year-old child; if he did not read]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/briefreflection/@blackliberal/theimportanceofreading-m1b6k51hc9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/briefreflection/@blackliberal/theimportanceofreading-m1b6k51hc9</guid><category><![CDATA[briefreflection]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 06:43:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4FeQn5z6VafutLyPKpPULzAMuXWKQLM8nSzVbo4ijuKxaZ8DJUwVvpe97HJQ8DTcN15sA8wKFzwNqovXXQ6iodgYzpV63VmY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brief reflection: Hierarchy, Apology of the West]]></title><description><![CDATA[What distinguishes human society from animals is that it evolves and changes over time, changes for better or for worse, but changes. Whether through its successes or failures, it is not a stationary society.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/culture/@blackliberal/hierarchyapologyofthewest-j9avbaxke3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/culture/@blackliberal/hierarchyapologyofthewest-j9avbaxke3</guid><category><![CDATA[culture]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Jun 2018 04:02:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/MG5aEodBkvVPpPVTZ24JiCMr3Hc7Qy6mENCfWVii3cWnDbgw1iEJUNAfq4QqM6tiQnHT5iXxC5GKnkCERjTfQVi9uRPZxDaE2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irrational voters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Winston Churchill said that the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Meaning that the vast majority of voters are intolerably ignorant (or, even worse,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@blackliberal/irrational-voters</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@blackliberal/irrational-voters</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2018 15:52:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9UaGLbF1HgwmbRaJKTFXmiwfS4yqNQp9f5kyRBtxAhkGZEgN799yvCLUghNjgPhs9FfaQeCPHxWFLni?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demagogy: Aristotle and Ortega y Gasset]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is no surprise to anyone that governments with democratic systems or representative republics - the world system by definition - always result in demagoguery, as Aristotle wondered why democracy always]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@blackliberal/demagogy-aristotle-and-ortega-y-gasset</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@blackliberal/demagogy-aristotle-and-ortega-y-gasset</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:41:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9Uw62ozWq1EJ2GDSMzko5uGTSyvMJZZPrDhDrmtriAo8NeV2ByNqHjaL1KxDPfNesxUCQvBNFWqGi6A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brief reflection: Animal Farm]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two days ago, 115 years ago, the British writer Eric Arthur Blair, known worldwide as George Orwell, was born. His two novels critical of totalitarianism, Animal Farm and 1984, were published after World]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@blackliberal/brief-reflection-animal-farm</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@blackliberal/brief-reflection-animal-farm</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:03:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/JvFFVmatwWHRfvmtd53nmEJ94xpKydwmbSC5H5svBACH7yWhAf4iQN569J5q8MNoZsUzpA19sDyGyoWJNnFv5q8gBv3ZbV68yGoCUeV9fJF4CS8LRvSxgsivNgEJ54WmBNWxFHznEz?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The role of the intellectual: improving or worsening?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The other day I had a very intense debate with a person who was hoisting the book of the open veins of Latin America and its contents. Arguing that the value and content of the book were invaluable because]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@blackliberal/the-role-of-the-intellectual-improving-or-worsening</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@blackliberal/the-role-of-the-intellectual-improving-or-worsening</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[blackliberal]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:39:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/HNWT6DgoBc14riaEeLCzGYopkqYBKxpGKqfNWfgr368M9WxjSNMv2dFcFoYWJMbGzqPPftGSkzueA1yeopQVGa2wpnkLcyifqiqYwzUpfhiegxR978pBcYvWvut?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>