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The Great Accommodation
Was Marx right? Or was his timing just wrong? But, if so, what do we do with these ‘inglorious bastards’ — those sociopathic free market capitalists stomping hither and thither? Is it time for a great accommodation?
Posted in Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Body-politic, capitalism, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, commodification, Corporate State, cultural crisis, democracy, entrepreneurship, Financial Crisis, geopolitics, global collapse, Karl Marx, primal humanity, private property, privatization, religion, sharing
Tagged capitalism, civilization, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Empire, geopolitics, human nature, primitive, Reality, religion
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On Human Understanding~ Excavating the Mytho-poetics of Babel
[Here is a draft of a paper I’m preparing for a Linguistic conference on translation in 2016. Advice is always welcome, although not always heeded. Thanks ~ cK] It is not enough for language to have clarity and content… it … Continue reading
Posted in American Exceptionalism, civilization, cultural crisis, Curriculum of the West, Dostoyevsky, Gadamer, geopolitics, hermeneutics, human nature, language, nature, phenomenology, polysemy, primal humanity, rationality, syllogism
Tagged civilization, Empire, geopolitics, human nature, primitive, Reality, religion, Russia
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Deja-Vu All Over Again
By Angela Borozna (reprinted from Russia Insider) I grew up in Siberia during the Cold War and remember my fears of the United States. Images of Hiroshima were quite frequently aired on TV, and war evacuation plans were practiced at … Continue reading
Posted in American Dream, American Exceptionalism, capitalism, censorship, CIA, civilization, cultural crisis, democracy
Tagged capitalism, civilization, collapse, Communalism, Corporate State, Despair, Empire, Family
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KFC Calling!! All Hands On Board!!
You know something? No sooner does KFC (that’s right the Colonel’s own) open it’s doors in three prime Barnaul (Siberian Rusia) locations, then the goons and goof balls of
Posted in 9/11, Africa, Agriculture, American Dream, American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Aristotle, Austerity, Body-politic, body-subject, business, capitalism, censorship, Christianity, CIA, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, commodification, cultural crisis, democracy, Dostoyevsky, earthly-sensuous
Tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Arab Spring, Aristotle, Ayn Rand, business, cancer, capitalism, Cartagena, Christianity, CIA, civilization, collapse, Colonialism, Communalism, conspiracy, Corporate State, Despair, Dugin, Earth, Egypt, Empire, Engels, England, Executive Orders, Existentialism, Family, Financial Crisis, free will, freedom, Freud, fundamentalism, geopolitics, GMO, Gore Vidal, Health, Hitchens, human nature, hunter-gatherers, Hurricane Sandy, Idols, IMF, inverted totalitarianism, Ireland, Islam, Kierkegaard, kulturCritic, Law, Libya, madness, Matt Simmons, MBA, Meima, Memorial Day, MENA, Missouri, monotheism, Monsanto, Moscow, natural disasters, Nature, Obama
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Recollection, Releasement, and Reconstitution
We live now in a world of unnatural wonders: virtual communities, corporate personhood, iPads, ‘bluetooth’ ears, selfies, 24/7 i-spy eavesdropping, instant global communication; all the accoutrements to give bureaucrats, emperors, and dime-a-dance dictators a complete set of controls over their … Continue reading
Posted in American Dream, capitalism, civilization, collapse, cultural crisis, freedom, geopolitics, global collapse
Tagged capitalism, civilization, collapse, conspiracy, Corporate State, Earth, Empire, freedom, geopolitics, human nature, natural disasters, Nature, primitive, Russia, Siberia, Soul
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