Political Ideologies – Page 4

July 23, 2022 Political Ideologies

Concepts, Terms, and Reality – Mind Control 101

“Half-ass education often leads to full-blown imagination.” (Peter Sirius)

“Never judge a person based on what (s)he thinks about her/himself.” (Vladimir Ilitch Lenin)

The German sociologist Max Weber wrote: “Reality is chaotic. It is therefore all the more important that we formulate sharply defined concepts.”

I think he got a point: without clearly defined concepts and terms no scientific discussion is possible. Science depends on clear definitions. We need concepts to provide intellectual order to empirical reality. Concepts are the tools with which we understand empirical reality. . .

July 18, 2022 Political Ideologies

I ACCUSE

“J’accuse”, (“I accuse”) was the French title of the famous open letter written by the French writer Émile Zola to the president of the French Republic in defense of Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer who had been falsely accused of treason by the French army. It was published in the newspaper L’Aurore on Jan. 13, 1898. . .

July 4, 2022 Political Ideologies

The Law of Reciprocity – The Gravity of Human Relationships

In 1925, the French sociologist Marcel Mauss published his seminal work “The Gift” (Essai sur le don). The essay focuses on the ways in which humans exchange objects between groups and individuals and how this practice builds or destroys relationships. . .

July 4, 2022 Political Ideologies

Nice Try, Ryan

When my family and I arrived in the USA in 1983, we bought a house in the borough of Mantua in Fairfax County, Virginia. Our older son René joined the Fairfax Police Youth Club soccer team. We were also frequent visitors in the “Mall” Museums, in particular, the Museum of Natural History.

We had not yet decided whether or not we would apply for US citizenship, but we were eager to learn the rules of American cultural and social life which seemed to be quite different from those in Europe. . .

May 3, 2022 Economy / Political Ideologies

Raise Taxes to Stop Inflation? Are You Nuts?

During a regular Democrat press conference on Monday April 25, 2022, Senator Chuck Schumer said this:

“If you want to get rid of inflation, the only way to do it is to get rid of a lot of the Trump tax cuts and to raise rates.”

The context makes it clear that he meant: raise tax rates. In other words, Senator Schumer believes or wants us to believe that inflation can only be reduced by levying more taxes.

Senator Schumer graduated in 1974 from Harvard Law School and immediately became a career politician the very same year. I could find no evidence that he never practiced law or that he ever operated or owned a business. His entire adult life he has been a public “servant”, i.e. his income came from tax money. Apparently, he also never learned even the basics about inflation and the economy.

April 29, 2022 Political Ideologies

Should Inconvenient Historical Markers be Destroyed?

Pharaoh Akhenaten, aka Amenophis IV, reigned between 1351 and 1334 BC. He broke with the Ammon Cult, which had been

February 17, 2022 Culture and Religion / Political Ideologies

Is the Democratic Party Really the Political Home of Black Americans?

Do you remember Mr. Biden saying: “If you don’t vote for me, you’re not Black.” ?
What he meant to say is that Black Americans should vote for him and the Socialist Democratic Party because he and his party stand and have always stood for the just cause of Black Americans as their good friends and defenders. Does history bear that out?

December 30, 2021 Political Ideologies / Socialism

Humiliation and Oppression

At a local medical center, one of our friends, who refused to be vaccinated, was called “a murderer” by one of the nurses. In Australia, you will now be fined up to $80,000 or imprisonment for up to 5 years, if you refuse to be vaccinated. In Italy, people who refuse to be vaccinated, are now confined in house arrest and are only allowed out of their homes with special police permission to buy food or medications etc. Hundreds of thousands of public employees have lost their jobs in the USA because they refused vaccination. A friend who is a retired nurse, volunteered at a local hospital when asked to help out with a heavy load of COVID patients. Then she was asked to get vaccinated. As a nurse, she knew firsthand how useless and dangerous these so-called vaccinations are. She refused and was promptly let go again. This morning, I heard a discussion on Public Radio, the tax-money-financed voice of reason, about whether unvaccinated patients waiting for a lung transplant should be allowed to keep their place in the waiting line or be moved to the end of the line for certain death. What happened to the Hippocratic Oath? Are the Non-Vaccinated becoming the Jews of our time?

September 24, 2021 Political Ideologies

Corrupt our Voting System – Destroy our Democracy

With the mid-term elections coming up in November 2022, I wonder what we can expect. Will the voting system be fair and legal? Or will the system be corrupted to the point where those win, who cheat the most? Or worse, will the Democrats “reform” the voting laws to make all the cheating legal?

September 16, 2021 Political Ideologies

How I became a citizen of the land of the free and the home of the brave – oh boy!

n 1973, I worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard’s Botanical Museum. My host, Professor Richard Evans Schultes, occasionally invited me to dine with him in the teachers’ dining room, where on one occasion I sat next to Professor Kenneth Galbraith’s table and a cross-table conversation developed between Schultes, a conservative, and Galbraith, a liberal. What I got to hear from Galbraith was pure neo-Marxist ideology and should have been a warning for me and a harbinger of things to come.