John Rockefeller and modern medicine: The 1910 Flexner Report laid the foundations of the modern medical system, dubbed “Rockefeller medicine.” Since that time, the corporate interests have established near total control of the medical field, both though pharmacology and through their impact on medical education. In the first part of the 20th century, the Rockefeller and Carnegie lobbies were …
Read More »The Age of Western Stagnation: Greed and Lack of Trust
We live in an age of remarkable Western stagnation. Respect for traditional values such as honesty, trustworthiness and self-restraint have been killed off by the Marxist rebellion against morality. Greed and selfishness are now forefront values. It may be argued that the deterioration of traditional ethics is precisely the element that contributes to economic decline that may mark the …
Read More »The Protestant Ethic and Capitalism: The idea was to earn money, be trustworthy and have something to give to others
In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, sociologist Max Weber states that when modern Capitalism took form in Protestant countries such as Switzerland and Germany about two hundred years ago, the ideal was to earn money and increase wealth – not to squander one’s income away on status, luxury and consumerism. The duty of the believer was to use …
Read More »Strong tendencies of social collapse in the United States: Poverty, lack of faith in government
The Western world is collapsing so rapidly that I am afraid that I am going to outlive it. Psychological and emotional collapse is not the only form of collapse underway in the US and Western world generally. There is also economic and social collapse, especially in the United States. Today America’s once great manufacturing and industrial cities, such as …
Read More »The Goal of Science is to understand God
The atheist narrative has in the past century engulfed the West with its denial of the metaphysical realm. History has been rewritten to fit this Marxist and socialist ideology. The idea that religion and scientific rationalism are opposing world views is one of the atheist distortions of reality that have been pushed on the public. One seeks to hide …
Read More »Alexis de Tocqueville and the Totalitarian Abuse of Power in Democracies
Many famous authors have discussed the dangers of misuse of power in democracy, among them the nineteenth-century philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville. In Democracy in America, he pointed out how easy it is for a democracy to turn totalitarian if it becomes the tyranny of the mob. It would be an ochlocracy, as the ancient Greeks called it, an extreme …
Read More »How the neo-Marxist New Left destabilized the West, tearing down the values that created stability
The West changed completely in the 1960s. The neo-Marxist student revolution implemented a full front attack on all traditional values and slowly broke down the very fabric of Western unity and stability. This may not have been the intent of the naïve youngsters who were thrilled at the prospect of free sex and drugs. They probably somehow believed in the …
Read More »Marxist icon Herbert Marcuse and the Authoritarian Strategy to silence opposition
Repression of free speech, tolerance and respect for plurality has become the trademark of the New Left’ desire to silence the Majority. Thinkers like Herbert Marcuse, the father of the student revolution in the 1960’s, speaks openly in A critique of pure tolerance about the need to oppress the views of the conservatives and others who are critical of their ideology, …
Read More »Western Secular Values are not Neutral but come from Christian Philosophy
The term “Western values” is often used when describing historical ideals and cultural traditions that are perceived to be vital in defining the European civilization. If you pay attention to the way the term is currently used, it is easy to assume that modern Western values were invented in the Enlightenment period – the 1600s – with its emphasis …
Read More »Corporatist Fascism: How the Left and the Right joined forces to kill Democracy and empower the Billionaire class
Corporatism, with its offspring Fascism and Nazism, is supported by totalitarians of the left and the right and its libertarian opponents also spring from the left and the right. On “the left” both “communists” and “welfare socialists” oppose corporatism and on “the right” democratic enterprise capitalists and small businesses fight corporatism. The almost total irrelevance of the notions of …
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