But I sound ridiculous. I will visit the Warwick Mall !
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Another bloody massacre : Thank God for the shopping malls !
So many mass killings raise a very existential question that I can imagine the famous French writer Albert Camus asking: Is life in general MEANINGLESS for these disturbed ANGRY YOUNG MEN ? Have they absorbed the nihilistic message implicit even in round- the- clock capitalist advertising ? Will empty headed consumerism some day culminate in a final nightmare of mass suicide ? In rejecting the existence of a Supreme Being is the New Atheism offering us a meaningless universe -with no moral compass whatever ? Camus' " Myth of Sisyphus " begins with a shocking assertion : the only really important philosophical question is suicide ? Science offers us only the IDIOT god of eternal matter in motion. But the Russian novelist Dostoevsky is a lot deeper in having a character in " The Possessed " conclude : " If God does not exist, then everything is permitted ". Well, just read the newspapers.
But I sound ridiculous. I will visit the Warwick Mall !
The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay by Albert Camus. ... Does the realization of the absurd require suicide? ... considers to be the only question of philosophy that matters: Does the realization of the meaninglessness and absurdity of
But I sound ridiculous. I will visit the Warwick Mall !
Mass murder at Umpqua Community College - Is Life Meaningless ?
Active shooter at Oregon Community College
This goes beyond the NRA and a dysfunctional mental health system : how many
disturbed young individuals just think that LIFE IS MEANINGLESS ? Now
that is a thought crime !
The nihilistic news media does make life seem meaningless. Talk about that on GOOD MORNING AMERICA .
" The land of the free and the home of the brave " ? And all that Republican based RIGHT TO LIFE fervor all mixed up with Ayn Rand's " Virtue of Selfishness ".
And our " Culture of Narcissism " - the circumscribed " I " .
Just making sense of senselessness !
The nihilistic news media does make life seem meaningless. Talk about that on GOOD MORNING AMERICA .
" The land of the free and the home of the brave " ? And all that Republican based RIGHT TO LIFE fervor all mixed up with Ayn Rand's " Virtue of Selfishness ".
And our " Culture of Narcissism " - the circumscribed " I " .
Just making sense of senselessness !
The National Education Association should not endorse Hillary Clinton
NEA should endorse Bernie Sanders
The conservative leadership of these powerful unions identify more easily with the ONE PERCENT rich- the very definition of philistine SUCCESS- than with more ordinary-even if highly educated- Americans.
But the rise of " socialist " Jeremy Corbyn to the top of the British Labor Party says " the times are changing " .And so does the rise of this " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The crisis of global capitalism will not fade away.We must begin to question the very legitimacy of " legitimate " wealth.
And public school teachers must stop being the very medium for imparting ruling class values-competition, greed, narcissism - to America's youth
The Republicans were terrified that Donald Trump might form a dreaded third party. Bernie should play on that fear. Or just DO IT !
For
many years now democratic Socialists-like Bernie Sanders- and the more
militant CLASS STRUGGLE democratic Socialists -have both supported the
fights of unionized workers and " professionals " and state workers AND
criticized their union leadership for a lack of internal democracy.What
is best for organized labor is some form of " democratic centralism " :
complete freedom of debate followed by UNITY in action.
It would be a political disaster for the National Education
Association( NEA ) to endorse the neo-liberal Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The neo-liberal Democrats turned their backs
on working- and the more precarious middle class Americans- decades
ago. They made New Deal president Franklin D. Roosevelt look like a
flaming Bolshevik.The conservative leadership of these powerful unions identify more easily with the ONE PERCENT rich- the very definition of philistine SUCCESS- than with more ordinary-even if highly educated- Americans.
But the rise of " socialist " Jeremy Corbyn to the top of the British Labor Party says " the times are changing " .And so does the rise of this " socialist " Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
The crisis of global capitalism will not fade away.We must begin to question the very legitimacy of " legitimate " wealth.
And public school teachers must stop being the very medium for imparting ruling class values-competition, greed, narcissism - to America's youth
The Republicans were terrified that Donald Trump might form a dreaded third party. Bernie should play on that fear. Or just DO IT !
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When should " affirmative action " end ? Or must special grievance be kept alive forever by the " political correctness " bureaucracy ?
The Democratic Party depends on relatively privileged blacks to keep the voting majority " loyal " to the political establishment.
Show me a black leader for Bernie Sanders ? Show me a black leader for Socialism ? Malcolm X said : " Show me a capitalist and I'll show you a blood sucker ".