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Monthly Archives: February 2016
INTELLECTUALISM: “Donald Trump is Winning Because White America is Dying” / The Huffington Post / Matt Ferner ☮
Noam Chomsky, the renowned scholar and MIT professor emeritus, says that the rise of Donald Trump in American politics is, in part, fueled by deeply rooted fear and hopelessness that may be caused by an alarming spike in mortality rates for a generation of poorly educated whites.
“He’s evidently appealing to deep feelings of anger, fear, frustration, hopelessness, probably among sectors like those that are seeing an increase in mortality, something unheard of apart from war and catastrophe,” Chomsky told The Huffington Post in an interview on Thursday.
US POLITICS: “Bette Midler on Elections and Erections” ☮
PSYCHOLOGY – ANALYTICAL: “Individuation, the Persona, the Shadow, and the Self” / Carl Jung ☮
INTERVIEW: “The Solution” / Days of Revolt / Chris Hedges, Green Party Candidate Jill Stein / Part 2/2 ☮
In this episode of teleSUR’s Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein lay out the solutions to issues like economic inequality and climate change, and explain the need for sustained civil disobedience and a unified grassroots movement.
CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY: “Michele Bachmann: ‘Get a Brain’ and Understand America is Biblical” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
PSYCHOLOGY – ANALYTICAL: “The Psyche, Archetypes, and the Collective Unconscious” / Carl Jung ☮
ABRAHAMIC RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY: “Dalia Mogahed: What do You Think When You Look at Me?” ☮
PSYCHOLOGY – ANALYTICAL: “Making the Unconscious Conscious” / Carl Jung ☮
ATHEISM: “Atheism has Ancient Roots and is Not ‘Modern Invention’, Claims New Text” ☮
Atheism is not a modern invention from the western Enlightenment, but actually dates back to the ancient world, according to a new book by a Cambridge academic – which challenges the assumption that humanity is naturally predisposed to believe in gods.
In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh, professor of Greek culture at Cambridge University, lays out a series of examples showing that atheism existed in polytheistic ancient Greece. It is, according to its author, partly “an attempt to excavate ancient atheism from underneath the rubble heaped on it by millennia of Christian opprobrium”.
Whitmarsh, a fellow of St John’s College, believes that the growing trend towards seeing religion as “hardwired” into humans is deeply worrying. “I am trying to destabilise this notion, which seems to be gaining hold all the time, that there is something fundamental to humanity about [religious] belief,” he told the Guardian.
His book disputes that atheism is “a modern invention, a product of the European Enlightenment” and a mode of thought that “would be inconceivable without the twin ideas of a secular state and of science as a rival to religious truth”.
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