Collective amnesia and deliberate efforts to imagine the legacy of slavery as resolved by Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, have left most Americans, including a few who sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, believing wholeheartedly in the greatest myth of our time: the myth of equal opportunity and equal rights.
I find it strange to think of war as thoughtful and deliberate; I have always imagined it would be more like the chaos encountered in NovaLogic's beautifully designed online first-person shooter, Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising.
There were certain early signs of disaffection: sudden desperate maladies would force Nietzsche to cancel scheduled visits, and once, in 1874, he brought along a score by Brahms — no more deliberate provocation can be imagined — which he performed for the Wagners with what can only have been malicious glee.
Some people – usually those who claim not to believe what they read in the papers – seem inherently to regard a front-page headline as deliberate sensationalism, and to imagine that important but complex stories should be relegated to inside pages lest a passing punter should be alarmed by a report they haven't read.
Darwin imagined the deliberate evolution of species and organisms that make sense in their respective habitats.
Khartoum's choice to lead the committee, however, was even more cynical than we could have imagined and a deliberate slap in the face to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.
(Leviathan, Ch. 5) In addition, Hobbes suggests that reasoning — along with imagining, sensing, and deliberating about action, all of which proceed according to mechanistic principles — can be performed by systems of various physical types.
"I can't imagine that that's deliberate.
Every slight or criticism, real or imagined, valid or invalid, deliberate or accidental, sets these two ideologies off.
