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Category Archives: Political Economy
Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 2)
Materialism (Vers 2.0, Part 2): in “A Free Man’s Worship” (1903) philosopher Bertrand Russell called for a humanist ethic of respect for scientific truth, economic justice, and world peace. How well has this held up? Is its failure just the sign of a civilization’s growing pains, or of something fundamentally wrong with its key assumptions? Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged A Free Man's Worship, Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Deep Establishment, Huxley Brave New World, materialism, Modernity, Nietzsche, power vs goodness, power vs morality, Russell a Free Mans Worship, Russell the Impact of Science on Society, Russell the Scientific Outlook, Skinner Beyond Freedom and Dignity, social engineering, Technocracy, technocratic elite, technology of behavior
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The Deep Establishment
In the title of his recent Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017) former Greek foreign minister Yanis Varoufakis introduces this phrase: The Deep Establishment. I like it! The … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Higher Education Generally, Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Adults in the Room, Big Pharma, big tech, Carroll Quigley, central banks, Conspiracy Theories, David Rockefeller Sr, Deep Establishment, Deep State, fake news, military-security complex, new world order, privished, The Deep Establishment, The Deep State, the one percent, Tragedy and Hope, udo ulfkotte, world government movement, Yanis Varoufakis, Zbigniew Brzezinsky
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This Blog Is Not a Commodity
Several months back, someone posted a comment that went something like, “You don’t monetize your blog.” Why not? was the implied question, quite in tune with the prevailing neoliberal ideology of the day. I thought about it. I’ll admit, I … Continue reading
George Herbert Walker Bush (1924 – 2018)
Today is George Herbert Walker Bush’s funeral. I don’t normally write notices for just-deceased politicians, so this is a departure for me. But something has aroused my curiosity. I posted a very brief notice about his death, along with a … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Allen Dulles, Allen Dulles CIA Director, Bay of Pigs, Bush CIA, Conspiracy Theories, Facebook hate speech, G H W Bush, George Bush CIA, George H W Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, JFK assassination, LBJ and JFK assassination, money laundering Nazis, Prescott Bush
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Auguste Comte’s Law of Three Stages: What It Is, Why the Third Stage is Dying, What Comes Next. (A Major Statement.)
[Note: this may be the longest blog post I have ever made on this site. The result of several weeks of effort, it may be read as a progress report on what may turn into my life’s work: if I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged abiogenesis, capitalism vs. socialism, Christianity and Human Rights, Comte, Darwin, decline of the West, Dmitry Orlov, Edward Bernays, existentialism, God and philosophy, Law of Three Stages, materialism, meliorism, political economy, R Buckminster Fuller, science and religion, stages of collapse, stop abortion now, sustainability, The Enlightenment, theory of evolution
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Is Higher Education Undergoing a Long-Term Structural Collapse?
Is higher education in the U.S., and almost surely in the West generally, undergoing a long-term structural collapse? The question sounds histrionic, perhaps even hysterical and would be treated as such in many (most?) mainstream academic circles. But if we … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Higher Education Generally, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged #MeToo feminism, Adjunct faculty, Black Lives Matter, black professors, corporatization, Frankfurt School, Griggs decision, Herbert Marcuse, higher education collapse, higher education decline, Kevin Carey, neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, neoliberalism neoconservatism, part-time faculty, political correctness, Powell Memo, Powell Memorandum, precarity, racial discrimination, student loan debt, student loan debt crisis, Udemy.com, why teachers leave, YouTube
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Why Marx Now? Part 2
[Author’s Note: I received complaints that Part 1 was too long. “TLDR,” said one person: Too Long Didn’t Read. Part of me is saddened by this. I wonder if essayists such as Albert Jay Nock, or James T. Farrell, or … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Worldview, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged abolish the state, capitalism inequality, capitalism irrational, capitalism vs. socialism, Communist Manifesto, crony capitalism, EU problems, global capitalism, globalism, globalization problems, Karl Marx, Karl Marx Yanis Varoufakis, Libertarian economics, Marx new interest, Marx political economy, Marx Varoufakis, Marxism and Christianity, Marxism today, Neoliberalism, planned obsolescence, power elite, Syriza Party, technofeudalism, technological unemployment, Varoufakis economist, Yanis Varoufakis
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Why Marx Now? Part 1
Recent years have seen a surge of renewed interest in Karl Marx’s political-economic thought. For those not living in a cave somewhere, this has been hard to miss. This interest is not coming primarily from the “cultural Marxists” of academic … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged capitalism irrational, Christianity and Marxism, Communist Manifesto, Cultural Marxism, economic Marxism, Identity Politics, inequality, Karl Marx, Marx and Engels, Marx at 200, Marxism, Marxism today, power elite, Thomas Piketty
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Truth Teller’s Dilemma, Part 1
[Author’s note: this was previously posted elsewhere, but it strikes me that all three parts of this extended essay should be available on the same site. This will render them out of order, but I think my readers are smart … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Election 2016 and Aftermath, Media, Political Economy
Tagged Alex Jones, Alex Jones lawsuit, Brennan Gilmore, censorship of conservatives, censorship on social media, Charlottesville, Conspiracy Theories, culture wars, free market evangelism, free press myth, free speech on social media, inverted totalitarianism, James Damore, Jeff Bezos billionaire, PropOrNot, Sheldon Wolin, The Matrix, The Real Matrix, Washington Post, YouTube censorship
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Lost Generation Philosopher 