A COSMIC JOKE?

And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:”I drink, therefore I am”-Monty Python, The Philosophers Song In his famous treatise Meditation six, Rene Descartes struggles to come to grips with the material world and how we perceive it. He explores the causal relationship between mind and body. Descartes manages to convince himself that he does indeed […]

Philosophy in the Bedroom

Infamous French reprobate Marquis de Sade’s Philosophy in the Bedroom is a radical statement of intent. In the wake of the French Revolution, de Sade [1740-1814] makes his case for absolute freedom and equality, and he makes it very clear that as far as he is concerned, there can never be any individual freedom until […]

‘Summit for Democracy’ my ass

US “president” Joltin’ Joe Biden hosted a ‘Summit for Democracy’ this week. With about 110 hand-picked world leaders in attendance for his virtual Summit for Democracy, Biden sounded the alarm over the rising tide of authoritarianism. The “president” conceded that the endeavor was less of a magic bullet than an attempt to the start a […]

DUMBING US DOWN

The desire to control the minds of the masses has long been a driving force behind the American educational system. From the very outset, compulsory schooling was used as a means of social engineering. Gilded-Age Robber Barons like JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had a real need for this kind of [non-]education […]

NO MORE HOPES AND PRAYERS

Another day, another school shooting. Another big fat angry collective yawn from American lawmakers and the media. On Tuesday, another psycho high school student came to school with the intent to kill his classmates. Three young lives were taken and eight students were injured. NO ONE BATTED A FUCKING EYE. Since it’s impossible that there […]

GOING DOWN THE TUBES, AGAIN!

It is not just the electoral process in America that makes our democracy a sham; it’s what our legislators do once they are actually in office that makes our democracy a sham. Coal, Oil & Gas shill Joe Manchin and minimum wage killer Kirsten Sinema aren’t centrists. They are obstructionists. The ‘system’ they work for […]