Fighting Existential Angst: Vainly Seeking “Therapy” On The Social Networks
"The crowd is untruth."-Sören Kierkegaard, Point of View, That Individual
Early philosophical explorations of anxiety are best traced to Sören Kierkegaard in the nineteenth century....
The Atom And The Virus: A Progressively Lethal Convergence For The United States
“It is only in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."-Albert Camus, The Plague
Americans...
Retreat To The “Fuhrerbunker”: A Remembrance Of Things Past?
"Is it an end that draws near, or a beginning?"-Karl Jaspers, Man in the Modern Age (1951)
Toward the close of World War II, with...
What If A North Korea Nuclear Crisis Should Coincide With Election Loss For Donald J. Trump?
"I hold despicable, and always have, anyone who puts his own popularity before his country."-Sophocles, Antigone, Speech of Creon, King of Thebes
Democrat presidential candidate...
When An American President Becomes Agent Provacateur
"Whoever can dominate the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots...
Preparing For The Next Round Of Belligerent Nationalism
“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.”...
Donald Trump, “The Crowd” And A Nation’s Bitter Despair
“The crowd is untruth.”-Soren Kierkegaaard
The "crowd," cautioned Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard, is “untruth.” Nowhere is the concise wisdom of this 19th century warning more...
From Plato To Donald Trump: A Once Unimaginable Declension
"....till the class of philosophers be invested with the supreme authority in a state, such state and its citizens will find no deliverance from...
Embracing Government By Anti-Reason: Are Americans Heading For The “Fǚherbunker”?
"There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason, but for mystery – not for penetrating clear thought, but for the...
If You Like Covid-19, You’ll Love Nuclear War
"Defenseless under the night; Our world in stupor lies...."-W.H. Auden
Even now, after some many staggering and irreversible leadership mistakes on Corona virus - grievous...