This fellow’s beliefs, as presented here, were accepted by the majority of intellectuals at the turn of the 20th Century. Marx and Engels, drawing on Hegel, had forwarded the idea of the dialectic, which, in political terms, means the never-ending …
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Trump 2024
I actually hadn’t considered this. I’m not sure it’s as much ego as it’s his motivation not to die in federal prison. In any case, keep in mind that Trump needs to maintain the fiction that the 2020 election was …
What Happens When an Immovable Object Meets an Irrestible Force?
As we see at left, Trump will never let go of the Big Lie, and will continue to push the myth that the entire justice system of the U.S. has been “weaponized” against him. Keep in mind that, each day, …
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Big Oil, Big Tobacco
Most people find it hard to believe that they live among folks who are so unprincipled that they are willing to inflict great harm on others, simply because they get fabulously rich whatever process is at stake, whether that’s selling …
What Precisely IS the Story of Human Civilization?
I love the sentiment here, but this is not an accurate depiction of the situation in which humankind finds itself. In particular, there never was a time at which we considered ourselves brothers and sisters, etc. Recently, the theory of …
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News from Sean Spicer
I mentioned this tweet by Sean Spicer when I came across it on December 7th, and I pointed out that he has confused Dday in 1944 with Pearl Harbor Day in 1941. I just saw this again and realized that …
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The Dumbing Down of America
Below is a Christmas cartoon from 1974. To me, what makes it worth mentioning is that 50 years ago, most Americans could have recited this passage from H.D. Thoreau from memory, where today, just half a century into the great …
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Trump’s Great Failing Could Be Basic Arithmetic
I cringe when I hear someone say that Trump is an idiot. Yes, we hear the former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson say, “He’s a “f***ing moron,” and any of the dozens of similar epithets thrown at him by the people …
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Another Tidbit on Republican Hypocrisy
Nowadays one never knows when the “party of law and order” is going to show the world how completely insincere it is, here, by showing no support of the police who protected them during the January 6th insurrection. Whatever is …
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Celebrating the Blessing of Christmas
My wife is decorating our Christmas tree in advance of a party we’re hosting tomorrow evening. My job is putting on music of the season to keep her in the mood as she picks out the ornaments and arranges them …
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