The ongoing nationwide anti-terrorist operation that was commenced in response to the spree of urban terrorism that broke out in dozens of major American cities over the past week will forever change the country as everyone knows it, revealing some very uncomfortable realities about the prior state of affairs in the run-up to this public…
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you.”—John Lennon Brace yourselves. There is something being concocted in the dens of power, far…
Scott Adams has a perfect phrase to describe our political divide. “One screen, two movies.” What he means is that two people see the same event and process it in completely opposite ways, depending on their perspective. That perspective is made up of a whole host of things — current state of mind, personal experience,…
Dozens of major American cities are in the midst of massive unrest as a result of the nearly week-long riots that have taken hold of them following the death of George Floyd at the hands of (or rather, under the knee of) a Minneapolis police officer, with this uncontrollable chaos representing a dangerous phase of…
Economics doesn’t explain everything. Heartbreakingly high rates of incarceration, illegitimacy, disease and poverty among black Americans are tinder waiting for a spark like the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd in police custody. “What the great French sociologist Emil Durkheim called “anomic suicide” is the Great Plague of our times. Self-destructive behavior in the form…
I woke up on May 31st morning to multiple U.S. cities on fire, the police are under siege and V for Vendetta trending on Twitter. Hackivist group Anonymous has declared war on the government and a whole lotta people are very confused about what’s going on. I have no doubt the riots, looting and burning…
