The inscription on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, is a triple imperative life guideline: “Know thyself! Nothing in excess [or, too much]! Make…
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Laid out brilliantly, by Otto von Bismarck, within the context of ‘the proper use of principles in matters of diplomacy’ in regard of Prussia’s foreign…
Remember “The Curse of Opinion: May Reason Rest in Peace”? That earlier contribution to The Age of the Imbecile column? In case you don’t, fret…
If my memory serves me well, it was Harry G. Frankfurt (2005) in his book, “On Bullshit,” who cautioned against ‘feigning to have what one…
Cutting straight to the chase, grievance is NEVER the cradle for violent radicalization; merely the call-to-action force, a trigger. To put it in perspective, the…
As a species, we are innately predisposed towards improvement, growth, and evolution. For better or worse, that is. It is not implied per se, however,…
“Venenum in auro bibitur,” “poison is drunk from a golden cup,” one of the most captivating and contemplatively engaging latin proverbs. If read once, it…
In the Age of the Imbecile, the average person’s notion of self—to the spectator’s amusement—is subjugated to a definite expanse of space and dimension. It…
The ‘zero-sum game’ theory is exclusively an economic peculiarity, and its application must be inadmissible in the humanities. From an economics perspective, “A zero sum…
For long, a considerable majority of the lower-income stratum, or the ‘have-nots’, so to speak, has fallaciously held the belief that the accumulation of a…