at least, the anti-Christianity of Nietzsche, is more similar than most Christians and Nietzscheans like to admit. This thought struck me as I read Listen Little Man, by Wilhelm Reich, and a recent Ethika Politika column makes the same point about our call to be fully human and fully alive… Nietzsche famously wrote that the…
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Just know when you speak to the police, that their angle is VERY different from yours… 1.) Even though you say differently, you probably don’t know your rights. 2.) If you leave your teenager in charge of the house while you go away for the weekend, he or she will probably do something you forbade…
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2+2=5: The phrase “two plus two equals five” (“2 + 2 = 5”) is a slogan used in many different forms of media, but more specifically in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as an example of an obviously false dogma one may be required to believe, similar to other obviously false slogans by the Party in…
DetailsThe digital age, many have argued, has given rise to a greater number of psychopaths and sociopaths than ever before. Whether it is our engagement with screens instead of human beings or some other factor, the truth is that more people seem to be self-absorbed today than in times past. Many would believe the least…
DetailsThis is one for the history books. File under “terrifying complicity”: On September 12th, 2012, Federal District Judge Katherine B. Forrest issued a permanent injunction against enforcement of Section 1021 of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. In July 2013, the 2nd Circuit ruled the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge that law. Monday,…
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