Capitalism

Left v. Right is a Distraction

Left versus right is just divide and conquer while all our political parties are owned and controlled by upper class influences based on campaign contributions and political lobbying. The political right is controlled by the upper class, the political left by the upper middle class. Meanwhile, the working poor have no political representation, this is

Culture

Our emerging common culture is chillingly nihilistic.

“Nihilism,” according to the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, is “not only the belief that everything deserves to perish; but one actually puts one’s shoulder to the plough; one destroys.” A nihilistic culture is defined by the drive to destroy, by the will to power. And that definition now describes the American nation. The evidence for this? Consider