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of an elite, which robs the majority of its essential liberties. Someone once remarked that in the old days men and women were brought as sacrifices to a variety of gods; for these, the modern age has substituted new idols: -isms... Monism is at the root of every extremism.”68
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The enemism is not Essentialism or Platonism, but ate-ism or madism, as another idol –ism: irrationalism. The willism to negative powerism unleashes unboundless madism and revelrism. Left to its naturalism, Dionysism and hubrism delights in carnavalisms of crueltisms. In his naturalism, he-ism is a mise en abyism of another- ism: the beastialism of the Bull of Minism. His half humanism is only a spectrism. In the mazism unbound to-isms and from-isms and up- isms and down-isms, he-is-ism: bullism and houndism in perennial warrism against every other-ism and Minotaurism (Hobbism). In the unlit mazism, social contractisms are toilet-isms or rollisms unrolling rolled toilet paperisms into unrollisms. In the mazism of nazism, Justicism is a Huntress a Huntress a Huntress devouring mouths mouths and mouth-isms casting a spell a spell a spellusnism that whistles his hounds with their vipers to whistle Jews into rows. Houndism.
Inside twilightism, the eerie denism, Houndism mistakes Greco- Romanism pluralism for monism, libertism for tyrannism, toleranism for intoleranism. Houndism begins to blame pluralism for the root of every evilism, just as monism is blamed for the root of all evilism. More antagonisms.
68 Berlin, Isaiah. The Power of Ideas. Ed. By Henry Hardy. USA: Princeton University Press, 2000. 14
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