Happiness comes from within. It is a perspective that is carried in the mind at every waking moment. You will not find any lasting happiness in the outside world that is separate from your own inner perceptions. This is because the outside world only reflects your internal point of view, your internal perspective.
If you are […]
Depending on who you ask, anywhere from one quarter to one half of Americans — anywhere from 75 to 150 million people — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder.
If we are to believe these statistics, there are literally tens of millions of people today, or even hundreds of millions of people, who have trouble finding […]
The American way of life — and whatever it is that phrase means to you — is the reason America behaves the way it does on the world stage. Yes, it is technically true that it is America’s government, and not Americans themselves, that makes war on others and restricts domestic liberty. But […]
Posted in Social Alienation on November 10th, 2007 No Comments »
So many are lonely today. It is a disease that is rampant, that is never talked about. In a country of 300 million people it made seem odd that loneliness even exists — surely a lonely soul can find a friend out of all those millions?
But loneliness has nothing to do with the […]
What has become of democracy? Such nobility in human ideas is rare, and it would be a splendid thing to live in a democracy. But that is not what we have in America.
Democracy has become a spectacle to be an observed, no longer an act of participation. Every four years we proceed […]
This is some good stuff right here from thinker Noam Chomsky:
“Exaggerating slightly, in totalitarian countries the state decides the official line and everyone must then comply. Democratic societies operate differently. The line is never presented as such, merely implied. This involves brainwashing people who are still at liberty. Even the passionate debates in the main […]
Posted in Social Alienation on August 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Sometimes I wonder how people in America will behave when their empire has manifested an ugliness that can no longer be hidden.
There are many people who might say we have reached that point already — the torture in Guantanamo Bay, for example, or the non-stop slaughter in Afghanistan and Iraq. Threatening a rival nuclear […]
There are times when I struggle to write on this site, mostly because I’m not sure who my audience is and also because there are a lot of topics and news events that should be discussed. I like concentrating on issues surrounding the presidency, mostly because I have an almost instinctual aversion to tyrants, […]
Poll after poll announces the displeasure of the American people with their government and their leaders, yet it is business as usual.
It reminds me of the abused spouse who keeps running back to the offending partner, telling friends that the abuser will change.
It is a curse of low expectations combined with lack of self-respect.
The American […]
On June 28, 2007, the Supreme Court’s experiment with school integration that began in 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education officially came to an end.
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court held that schools can no longer use race as a determining factor in where to place students, even if the purpose of […]
