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To Ease the Horror: U.S. Elections, World History and the Withering Promise of Life on Earth
"The horror, the horror," mumbles the Marlon Brando character in Apocalypse Now. Though merely cinematic, this sentiment exclaims a brutally truthful observation: While each...
Recycling Power Politics: For America, A Lethal “Resurrection”
"The egocentric ideal of a future reserved for those who have managed to attain egoistically the extremity of `everyone for himself' is false, and...
The American Triumph of “Mass-Man”: A Lethal Ascent
"The mass-man has no attention to spare for reasoning; he learns only in his own flesh."-Jose Ortega y' Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses...
Identity: Contemporary Identity Politics and the Struggle for Recognition –Book Review
The triumph of liberal democracy was celebrated by Francis Fukuyama (1991) and his patrons as the only available alternative left before the world but...
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...
The COVID-19 Pandemic and the “Phoenix” of the Globalized Technological Capitalist System?
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to acknowledge that three prominent intellectual figures spanning the 19th and 20th centuries forecasted...
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...