It wasn’t feudalism that was abolished, but chivalry, valor, and honor. Not the humanly corrupt institutionalized church that was separated from the state in Europe,…
Posts tagged as “psychology”
Since time immemorial, as old as the transition from the pre-social to the post-social state of nature, as construed by Enlightenment philosophers, namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
In the first article, “On Losing One’s Self,” I have established that the loss of the self occurs when the person no longer entertains a…
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss…
Normalcy and genius are not mutually exclusive. Nevertheless, normalcy cannot comprehend genius in full; nor can the latter clothe itself with the former without considerable…
Throughout the course of our social relationships and interactions, we often feel duped, back-stabbed, and taken advantage of by others. The descriptive term usually employed…
Social homogeneity and interconnectedness, in the absence of applied external directional force, remain inherently dialectical structural notions: simultaneously constructive and destructive. They produce coherent, harmonious,…
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…
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…
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…