Sandy Krolick's Blog, page 3
October 21, 2016
It Is Time To Drain The Swamp!
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There comes a time in the affairs of a people when the covenants that bind them as a nation lose their force and foundation, where the power of the State no longer resides with the people and its decisions no longer reflect their wishes,
Filed under: American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Body-politic, collapse, Corporate State, cultural crisis, democracy, Dostoyevsky, espionage, freedom, geopolitics, Hillary, homeland security, human nature, inverted totalitarianism, Nietzsche, Occupy Wall Street, Presidential politics, private property, social contract, State, terrorism
October 2, 2016
This Is The End, My Friend!
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These words from Jim Morrison’s 1967 song ~ originally intended as a breakup message to his girlfriend ~ are prophetic, almost proleptically describing what is now coming to full flower here in the homeland, in the brave new world of America fifty years hence.
Filed under: cultural crisis
September 28, 2016
The Increasing Loneliness of American Exceptionalism
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by Deena Stryker
When in 1629, the Puritan Minister John Winthrop told British colonists that America would be ‘as Christ’s city on a hill’, he was issuing a warning: with ‘the eyes of the world upon us’ our behavior must be above reproach – or exceptional. For almost three hundred years, two oceans kept the United States isolated from the give and take between neighbors on other continents.
Filed under: American Exceptionalism, Anarchy, Body-politic, capitalism, cultural crisis, democracy, entrepreneurship, espionage, fascism, Financial Crisis, geopolitics, global collapse, Islam, Karl Marx, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, progress, propaganda, Russia
September 25, 2016
THE PEACE DIVIDEND
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The Most Controversial Proposal
in the History of the World
The U.S. has become obsessed with war.
The destructive effects of this reverberate through all facets of society and negatively impact the lives of all American citizens.
Filed under: cultural crisis
September 24, 2016
Dream Time
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Our facade of a world is fast approaching the ellipsis of temporal decay. We are living in a virtual reality of information, weaponized scenarios of mini and major catastrophes.
Filed under: cultural crisis
July 7, 2016
The Symbolism of Evil
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The situation is now perfectly clear. We are fully aware that Hillary Rodham Clinton will do literally anything for power and money. She will lie, cheat, steal, murder, and even sleep with the enemy in order to satisfy her insatiable appetite, her purely self-regarding lust for power and recognition.
Filed under: cultural crisis
June 30, 2016
Primal Communitas: A Reassessment
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The paramount invention that led to human society was sharing…
(Morton Fried, The Evolution of Political Society, 106)
It is of interest to note that members of primitive societies had neither states nor our idea of pre-eminence.”
(Eli Sagan, At the Dawn of Tyranny, 7)
Filed under: cultural crisis
June 10, 2016
February 6, 2016
The Great Accommodation
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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?
Filed under: 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
December 20, 2015
On Human Understanding~ Excavating the Mytho-poetics of Babel
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[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 must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ~Rene Daumal
If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing [up], it would have been permitted. ~Franz Kafka
Filed under: 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
