America’s obsession with a monolithic conception of positivist science understood primarily as technology rapidly became identified with the national destiny (innovations like the steam engine, telegraph, and railroads defeated the Confederacy). 2. Quantitative analysis expressed in mathematical equations emerging from the natural sciences of physics and chemistry became the exclusive model of scientific knowledge. 3. […]
Political discourse reduced to bumper sticker slogans. It is something we experience every day in America, in the schizophrenic invective and gridlock of a rogue White House and Congress, and in a Supreme Court that kowtows to inherently unaccountable corporate power. This new and virulent strain of ideology is how the corporate entelechy of capitalism […]
The dictionary definition of ideology is no longer tenable: “a manner or the content of thinking characteristic of an individual, group, or culture; the integrated assertions, theories and aims that constitute a sociopolitical program; a systematic body of concepts especially about human life or culture; or visionary theorizing.” Thankfully, Hannah Arendt recognized the change and […]
Underpinning and supposedly justifying this ideology, the ritual sacrament known as competition was largely a product of nineteenth-century Revivialism, the consequence of the mass psychological transformation of the religious covenant into a means of instilling a sense of unity by arousing and manipulating strong emotions; it is thus an indirect legacy of Puritanism, though Jonathan […]
Transnational corporations with supranational ambitions of total global domination are the chief vehicle responsible for all the unleashed destruction of wars, disease, forced migration, and the spread of moral and political corruption today. It began in nineteenth-century America with a corporate-funded “massive reconstruction of Nature,” the way having been prepared by an eighteenth-century “Age of […]
