The State of Medina and the IMF on June 9, 2022“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now,” Mark Anthony holding Caesar’s mantle divulges to the Romans. Let’s not pose the identical question to the working-class people in Pakistan, for consumed by the grief they have already spent their tears and with the spectre of scarcity dancing all around they have too much at […]
Hussain and holocaust on August 29, 2020“Hegel remarks somewherethat all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce”. Since humans make history Marx continues, they carry the tradition of dead generations with them. The temptation to keep history akin to culture, a mistress of the […]
Brexit or no — exit on December 21, 2019The land of Angels has spoken; pushing aside the hand that offered the bouquet of social change, they have accepted a Faustian bargain. The illusion of the indoctrinated masses of following their reason is exactly opposite; in reality, they follow those who put their reason to the profitable ends. Their pernicious love for self- harm, […]
Brexit or no-exit on December 15, 2019The land of Angels has spoken, pushing aside the hand that offered the bouquet of social change. They have accepted a Faustian bargain. The illusion of the indoctrinated masses of following their reason is exactly the opposite: in reality, they follow those who put their reason to the profitable ends. Their pernicious love for self-harm, […]
Dumbness: an objective spirit? on August 26, 2018The ideas contrary to Athena do not spring full grown directly from the head of Zeus. Even the swashbuckling act of the virgin — the goddess of wisdom, of military victory, and the patron of the city of Athens — was no untimely coincidence. Athens, prior to Athena’s arrival, was not a city of dimwits […]