Where, the people, or the majority, are silenced by the elite minority and forbidden to voice their opinions. Besides systemic oppression, Ratism as a social norm has completely infested our community. The upper class has pitted the common people against each other, letting them tear each other...
Why is China a dictatorship? How did the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke differ? Why is Michel Foucault important? What did Karl Marx think about capitalism? Why is Auguste Comte considered the father of sociology? Why did Thoreau write Civil Disobedience?
Why did Daoism adopt generalized rebirth from Buddhism? How do Daoism and Buddhism differ? Does Taoism oppose Confucianism? What is the Way in Confucianism? What is the difference between religious Daoism and philosophical Daoism? How are Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism religions? What makes Confu...
(In fact, you don’t even need to imagine; Saramago did it for us in his Ensaio sobre a lucidez, which you should read.) But a Kantian would also be bound by the Selbstzweckformel:‘Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any o...
Did you even read Scott’s posts? Scott already answered Krugman’s post. ‘I’ll take the pre-80’s post war growth anytime…especially since if I’m a middle class person and not some one in the top 0.01% of income earners’ 1. Countries which didn’t adopt the neoliberal reforms...
I felt like if I stepped into a puddle, I wouldn’t be so sure if I didn’t step in somebody’s pee. Did I get unlucky? Maybe. Maybe not. No matter what I ordered in Hanoi, it was super dirty and served on a dirty plate. I was constantly sick after eating anything. And trust...
But apparently the reporter mentioned the wrong victim, because when I asked Manson directly –“Did Susan sleep with Frykowski?”– he replied: “You are ill advised and misled. [hairdresser victim Jay] Sebring done Susan's hair and I think he sucked one or two of her dicks. I'm not...
Yet there is no such thing as an ethnic Maori. Today, anyone claiming to be “Maori” is actually a person of mixed European-Maori descent rejecting one group of ancestors to adopt the cultural identity of another. The Maori Party’s half-American Tariana Turia is a case in point. ...
Venezuela is a classic example of the failure of Communism. When production is taken away from the producers to share with the poor, the producers simply stop working and the whole system collapses. Why should I work my Butt off, if I get nothing out of it? why work hard when you can...
Why did the Soviet Union lose the Cold War? Why was the Soviet Union involved in the Korean War? Why did the Cold War result in an arms race? Why did the Cold War last so long? Why did the U.S. fear communism during the Cold War? Why was the Korean War ...