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To be polite

By Richard J Tilley Published January 1, 2025 Poetry

They send you pleasant greetings
to be polite
likewise it has become polite
to let you suffer and be oppressed

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Richard J Tilley: Science Fiction and Ethics

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A Return to Attraction to Light and the End of the Public Intellectual
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“Spock’s Brain” and the Perpetuation of Sexist Control
The Conflict and Promises of Revisiting the Past and Seeing into the Future
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Examination of Martyrology in the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
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