Liberalism – with its two most basic precepts or pillars of individual freedom on one hand and universal rights on the other hand – was the idea or the package of ideas that governed the political and social life of the modern West before it became tainted with crazed and frenzied money worship and brute … Continue reading Infamous Liberalism
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An Architecture of Pleasure
As everyone is well aware, the norm and the rule in terms of what we get out of leaders and out of government in general is a combination of fear-mongering and lies. But of course, the fear-mongering and the lies, once analyzed and deconstructed, amount to a concealment and shrouding of sex and the masturbatory … Continue reading An Architecture of Pleasure
“Zindagi Akher Sarayad” – زندگی آخر سرآید
https://videopress.com/v/9efX7buv?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Artist: Ahmad Zahir. Rough Translation: "If there is only one life to live, then you might as well live it in freedom instead of repression. If repression is the necessary condition for life, then you might as well die. Even if the pressures of adversaries and enemies and opponents make you melt, don't ever … Continue reading “Zindagi Akher Sarayad” – زندگی آخر سرآید
Forepleasure
Imagination is everything in social life. To borrow from Freud: “The realm of imagination was seen to be a ‘reservation’ made during the painful transition from the pleasure principle to the reality principle in order to provide a substitute for instinctual satisfactions which had to be given up in real life. The artist, like the neurotic, … Continue reading Forepleasure
English Traits
“Beauty and strength, strength and beauty.” As one scholar wrote, these were what early American philosophers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson considered as commonplace English or Anglo-Saxon characteristics. Freedom and liberty are also thought to be not just a value system for Anglo-Saxons, but an impulse or an instinct. But as the revisionist scholar wrote: … Continue reading English Traits
Adam A. Azim 