Tag Archives: Nietzsche

Social Determinants of Health: epigenetics and chance events

Posted on July 1, 2024 by greg

The need to control information and incorporate new ideas to support the status quo is not new. During the Middle Ages, the predominant corporation in the West was the Roman Catholic Church. With the rediscovery of Aristotle in the Middle … Continue reading →

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Following Trump: the straight road to nihilism

Posted on March 1, 2024 by greg

Fyodor Dostoevsky had, in his work, explored what happens to society when people who rise to power lack any semblance of ideological or moral convictions and view society as bereft of meaning. But then a disturbing public trial spurred him … Continue reading →

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We Need to Ensure Political Accountability of Elected Officials

Posted on January 20, 2021 by greg

Machiavelli placed a large amount of emphasis on the fact that a prince must be seen to be a moral – but he is able act un-morally if it contributes to the good of the state or provides him with … Continue reading →

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Objective Reality: the Pervasive Atmosphere of Hostility of Neoliberal Narcissism

Posted on July 1, 2020 by greg

Powerful elites always have a justification for their obsessions. In the past emperors, kings, and aristocrats claimed they were God’s chosen. The plutocrats of the modern world have dispensed with God, but they have a philosophy that justifies in their … Continue reading →

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Reality Around Inequality Determines Change

Posted on September 1, 2018 by greg

Nietzsche insists that there is no such thing as absolute truth, and argues instead that all thinking and perception comes from a particular perspective, and that different perspectives will produce different perspectives of truth, there are only these views or interpretations, … Continue reading →

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How the Economy Creates Today’s Cultural Conditions

Posted on March 20, 2018 by greg

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) considered nihilism a transitional stage that accompanies human development. It arises from frustration and weariness. When people feel alienated from values, and have lost the foundation of their value system but have not replaced it with anything, … Continue reading →

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On Truth and Knowledge: “Neoliberalism is Dead”

Posted on January 20, 2018 by greg

The expression ‘knowledge itself is power’ occurs in Sir Francis Bacon’s Meditationes Sacrae (1597). Basically the more one knows, the more one will be able to control events – it’s about being aware of something, and having information. Knowledge is … Continue reading →

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Opportunities Lost: Create Your Own Truth

Posted on December 20, 2017 by greg

Neoliberalism rose to prominence by representing the subsequent crisis of the 1970s as a crisis of Keynesianism, against which the neoliberal project could be advanced as the return to the natural order of market society. The introduction of trickle-down economics … Continue reading →

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The Reality of Informational Neoliberalism And Diminishing Truth

Posted on July 10, 2017 by greg

It has been argued that reality is not an absolute, that each individual has his own perception of reality. Reality is the state of things, as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined. In … Continue reading →

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In A Post-truth Era Is Truth A Necessary Condition for Society to Change?

Posted on June 20, 2017 by greg

In this era of trickle-down economics with the increasing income disparity between the wealthy and the rest of society, a polarized debate has ensued on how to address the issue. Rousseau insisted that men must bear the moral responsibility for … Continue reading →

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