Are Love and Lust the Same?
“Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling – the equality of all lovers.” – Martin Buber, I and Thou “There may be an attraction that is initially sexual between two humans. If they start living together, this cannot endure for that long and be […]
Are We Puppets or Do We Have Free Will?
Are we puppets? Metaphorically, the question makes sense. Literally, we ask: do external forces, of which we are not conscious, manipulate our thoughts and actions? How crucial is the role of consciousness in this? If we are conscious of the external forces, might this be misconstrued as being a case of manipulation? Suppose we are […]
On Solitude
A communion with oneself…. A state of being alone within the confines of one’s self-consciousness…. A singular moment of intimate encounter with one’s soul…. A spontaneous course that takes one to the infinite terrain of her/his inner space…. In most instances we don’t purposefully get into it. There just seems to be some potent energy […]
In the Fight Against Imperialism, Beware the Peddlers of Despair
All around us – Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, the Congo, Ivory Coast, Palestine, Somalia, Libya, and elsewhere – empires are tearing a trail of destruction. This is not a sign of strength but of weakness, because the aim of empire is not to destroy but to conquer. Since conquest cannot be achieved without the collaboration of […]
US Hegemonic Empire and Culture of Death: State Terrorism on a Global Scale
The grand design of the United States global hegemonic empire is founded on an ideological platform of white supremacist domination. “Hegemony,” both in our common understanding and in its specialized Gramscian utilization, is semantically as broad and all-encompassing as “globality,” and therefore “hegemony” is appropriated and assigned the same limitations and specificity. United States global […]
