Starbuck especially elucidates this peculiar division between physical and moral courage. The first mate, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ord...
Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for me...
The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives lies and mythical narratives the aura of uncontested truth. We become trapped in the...
The enduring attraction of war is this: Even with its destruction and carnage it can give us what we long for in life. It can give us purpose, meaning, a reason for living. Only when we are in the mid...
The idiots take over the final days of crumbling civilizations. Idiot generals wage endless, unwinnable wars that bankrupt the nation. Idiot economists call for reducing taxes for corporation and the...
The potency of myth is that it allows us to make sense of mayhem and violent death. It gives a justification to what is often nothing more than gross human cruelty and stupidity. It allows us to belie...
There is no moral equivalency between antifa and the alt-right. But by brawling in the streets, antifa allows the corporate state, which is terrified of a popular anticapitalist uprising, to use the f...
There is no reliable data on the number of military-style assault weapons in private hands, but the working estimate is about 1.5 million.
This cult of distraction, as Rojek points out, masks the real disintegration of culture. It conceals the meaninglessness and emptiness of our own lives. It seduces us to engage in imitative consumptio...
This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a phantom. The jihad we have embarked upon is targeting an elusive and pr...
Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.
We once had within our capitalist democracy liberal institutions—the press, labor unions, political third parties, civic and church groups, public broadcasting, well-funded public universities, and a...
When you’re violent you undermine everything.
A Department of Defense program known as 1033, begun in the 1990s and authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act, and federal homeland security grants to the states have provided a total of...
Bulgakov and Roth understood that there is no real political ideology among decayed ruling elites. Political debate and ideological constructs for these elites are just so much absurdist theater, a cy...
Christian activists in Massachusetts are frequent guests at Christian conferences, where they speak of their persecution by homosexual radicals. This cultivated sense of persecution—cultivated by thos...
Force, Simone Weil wrote, is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.2
Many of America’s policing techniques, including widespread surveillance, were pioneered and perfected in American colonies such as the Philippines before being introduced to police departments in the...
Our capitalist elites have used propaganda, money, and the marginalizing of their critics to erase the first three of philosopher John Locke’s elements of the perfect state: liberty, equality, and fre...
People often point to the London Metropolitan Police, who were formed in the 1820s by Sir Robert Peel, Vitale said when we met. They are held up as this liberal ideal of a dispassionate, politically n...
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