Psychiatric disorders and mental health problems are skyrocketing in the United States. More people died from suicide in the United States last year than any other year on record, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, writes CNN. At least 49,449 lives were lost due to intentional self-harm in 2022 — nearly 15 deaths …
Read More »Mental Pain: Our civilization is blanketed with a light melancholic fog of neuroses, depression and loneliness
An underlying sorrow weights down the Western culture. Our civilization is blanketed with a light melancholic fog of neuroses, mental pain, depression and loneliness. Mental Pain: What happened? How did we end up in a situation where loneliness and depression are such massive problems? What happened to the family? And to the life long companionship between the man and …
Read More »Voltaire, founding father of secular intolerance
As the mainstream media shuts down diversity of opinion, pulling the “Fake News” card on anyone who does not see the world from the leftwing CNN angle, many feel that the West is turning into a Soviet Union. It has long been worrying that over 90 % of the US media is owned by only 6 corporations, as it …
Read More »Gangster Capitalism and Soros: Amoral Lack of Accountability is a Major Problem
Since the early 1980s, economic growth has increasingly been driven by financialization in the West – the replacement of industrial activity by financial trading. Traders like financial mogul and hedge-fund investor, George Soros, who has been called the world’s most famous investor, have greatly benefitted from financialization. Gangster Capitalism and Soros: Soros explains in his famous 60 Minutes interview …
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 »The Billionaire Capitalism of today is a total Perversion of the Historic Capitalism that brought millions out of poverty
Pope John Paul II once said that the problem with the current type of Western Capitalism is that it is wrenched off from its original moral foundation. Selfishness has become a virtue and the path to success. There is little regard for the traditional focus on duties and responsibilities. Yet, if “Capitalism” becomes equivalent to the individual’s right to …
Read More »Paul Craig Roberts: Important book about Gangster State Capitalism and Returning Feudalism – by Hanne Herland “New Left Tyranny”
“Hanne Herland of the European Herland Report has a book published in which she argues that the ruling elite has resurrected feudalism by financializing the economy and offshoring middle class jobs. The title is New Left Tyranny, but it is about gangster state capitalism,” writes the leading political economist, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts in this analysis of the book: “Historically, …
Read More »Faith is Scientifically Proven positive effect on Mental Health
We live in a mainstream culture that almost completely denies the spiritual realm and its influence on human beings. You hardly hear anything positive about religious beliefs or traditional values, for that matter. CNN and the mainstream outlets chronically only address issues that fit the atheist narrative. Yet, science proves that faith has a strong positive impact on, for …
Read More »The Quest for Mental Health: The world is a rough place. None of us survive this
The world is a rough place. None of us survive this. The earth and the realm around it is seized by evil. We will inevitably all face death. The Quest for Mental Health: The body, for which we have cared so much and protected from danger at the best of our ability when alive, will cease to exist and, …
Read More »Hedonism’s greatest flaw: Selfish pleasure does not bring Genuine Happiness, it creates the Loss of True Freedom
Where promiscuity and sexual selfishness becomes socially acceptable, it is increasingly hard to form any type of faithful marriage and family nucleus based on a partnership of trust, fidelity, loyalty, and patience. Hedonism’s greatest flaw: Western hedonism and its focus on selfish pleasure as the goal of life, demonstrates its greatest flaw in its failure to recognize that compassion …
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