The truth that wants to validate itself by force instantly ceases to be the truth, no matter what sort of truth this might be. What was to be the dictatorship of truth, inescapably turns into a petrified dogma whose proper responsibility is not the defense of truth but the defense of dictatorship.

Leszek Kolakowski

Power, Pedagogy, and Self-Organizing Systems

Martha C. Beck Contemporary Systems Sciences, Implications for the Nature and Value of Religion, the Five Principles of Pancasila, and the Five Pillars of Islam, pp. 1-41 (PDF)
Werner Krieglstein Cooperation, Synchronization, and Collective Orchestration: The Evolutionary Significance of Superorganisms, 42-54 (PDF)
Christopher Vasillopulos Human Nature and the Power State [Keynote Address to the ISUD IX World Congress], pp. 70-77 (PDF)

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