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This is a long Essay: 3000 words. Only required for graduate-level credit.
PART 1
A CLOUD OF ARROWS DARKENS THE SKY.
We are all hypocrites. We are all immature. Some of us are more intellectually and ethically honest about it than others. There is no dishonor in honesty. (more…)
We recently read The Rule of Freedom by Patrick Joyce (2003, London, Verso). We saw the following sentence:
“The legitimacy of parliamentary sovereignty came increasingly to be centered in entities such as ‘public opinion’, ‘the people’, ‘the democracy’, eventually ‘democracy’ itself…” (more…)
War on Terror: a “war (not)against the psychic effects of organized, deliberately caused fear of war-like acts of violence.”
-Definitions for a New World Order: takebackourlanguage.com, 2008
We can accept very little credit for the originality of any of the ideas that appear here. In fact, if we were to all just read more books (more…)
Exposing The Appropriation Of The Word “Liberal”
The term “liberal bias” is very sneaky.
“Liberal” and “conservative” have very different meanings. They really do imply and denote profoundly different orientations to our fellows and to our world. They work very differently (more…)
There Is No War.
Some recent wars: War on Poverty. War on Drugs. And, no shit, a recently declared War on Global Warming. War on you. War on Christmas. War on Mr. and Mrs. America. War on the Religious Right. War. What manner (more…)
The press, and many other largely illiterate Americans, refer to a candidate who is not yet nominated, but presumably will be, as a Presumptive Nominee. This is one of those (more…)
