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Biographical studies of narcissism wrapped in political grandiosity and religious fervor.

Revisado: 09-15-20

Using the political and personal lives of a group of intellectually dishonest radicals known to the author: the author reveals what drives these tormented, self-righteous activists in their never-ending search for personal fulfillment and religious experience no matter what the ultimate cost in human lives and human misery will come from their utopian schemes.

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Theism does not win, but secularism loses.

Revisado: 01-28-20

An informative and thoughtful collection of essays analyzing the great works of existential and nihilist literature and how this literature both expressed and prepared the West for embracing the divorce of faith and reason thereby ushering in the present postmodernist decadence---itself another failed post-Enlightenment project---and the death of meaning. Nietzsche's Parable of a Madman fairly captures the post-Darwinian dilemma wrought by the "Death of God" and the loss of human agency as reductionist naturalism asserts that only science can give humanity complete and reliable knowledge of reality; a self-refuting claim. The artistic works discussed in this collection of essays do an outstanding job of illustrating the topics considered in this book. In fact, this format of literary criticism and philosophical discussion is an excellent way to explore these topics with the guidance of two learned thinkers whose views differ respectfully.

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Trenchant analysis of dangers of rule by elites.

Revisado: 01-23-20

Thomas Sowell, one of America's greatest public intellectuals, presents the reader with a very accessible, evidence-based analysis---full of relevant, recognizable examples---about what inevitably happens when self-congratulatory and self-serving elites are able to impose their ideologies and visions on others and society at large. Even the so-called well intended manipulators of society cannot avoid the malign impact of their quest to make the world operate the way they prefer. Their personal desire to impose a deeply felt and ultimately idiosyncratic sense of abstract, cosmic justice on others is fueled by an overweening sense of moral superiority that necessarily avoids confronting directly and honestly the real world consequences of their failed, abstract, utopian schemes and visions. Unfortunately, those consequences include the steady erosion of the fundamental principles of freedom enshrined in the Constitution by the founders who risked all to free people from the tyranny of the self-serving elites of their day and then put in place a government that gave the common man a refuge from the rampaging assumptions of their "betters."

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Excellent thumbnail review of Western philosophy.

Revisado: 01-11-20

An excellent journey through Western Philosophy and its consequences from Jerusalem and Athens to its noteworthy Enlightenment expression in the liberating American Revolution, a revolution anchored firmly in the twin foundations of Jerusalem and Athens, to the all-devouring French Revolution and its unmoored Rousseauan faith in the "Reason" of the noble savage, unfettered by the limitations imposed by civilization, to the present day predicament of nihilistic delusion.

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