Whether it is done by just an individual or by a group, disobedience and dissent are a matter of conscience above all else. If the dissident or the one disobeying the law is willing to accept the consequences of their dissent and civil disobedience, that is when there is no punishment for it. When dissent … Continue reading Third Note to “Organized Lying”
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Fifteenth Note to “Jew Hater”
As Foucault said, madness is the absence of an oeuvre. Normalcy and stability in civic and social life by assessing the basic pattern, master trend, episteme, and oeuvre after all the Pol Pot and Hitler-like atrocities and monstrosities of the neoconservative and neoliberal order and status quo of affairs. It was a daunting and formidable … Continue reading Fifteenth Note to “Jew Hater”
The Russian Enigma
And when brought altogether and converged with one another, the aforementioned “master trends” of our day and age ultimately lead to a basic shift in the global balance of power in favor of the East, particularly in favor of Russia and China. What then compounds the enigma or the dilemma or challenge of the balance of power … Continue reading The Russian Enigma
Inner Sense
Reality as having been constituted in large part by unseen thought is enough for us to transcend the modern worldview which only takes material things into consideration and into account. To borrow from Arendt: “What appears in the outside world in addition to physical signs is only what we make of them through the operation of thought.” … Continue reading Inner Sense
Thought and the Modern Worldview
But where do our ideas and our thoughts even come from? To borrow from Hume, ideas – along with “impressions” – make up the two kinds of “perceptions of the mind.” There are sensations, emotions, and passions on one hand, and there are thoughts, reasoning, and ideas on the other hand. To borrow from Hume: … Continue reading Thought and the Modern Worldview
Adam A. Azim 