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Has anyone watched the show called, "Intervention"? For me, it's a very frustrating show to watch. If you've never seen it, it's a program that focuses on a person with some kind of drug addiction. Whether that drug addiction is illegal substances, prescription drugs or alcohol... it focuses on the family and friends of the addicted person as they try to set up an intervention to get the person the help they so desperately need. It's hard for me to watch sometimes, because a member of my family has had extensive experience with drugs and alcohol. My younger brother started drinking to excess at around age 15 and has almost killed himself by overdosing, twice. The family is often times put through hell - torn between wanting...
Who does J. Eric Fuller represent? Who elected him? Fuller is the Tucson Massacre survivor who threatened the Tucson Tea Party leader on Saturday and then was arrested. Who picked J. Eric Fuller? Answer: Jared Lee Loughton did. You know the paranoid schizophrenic who shot Congresswoman Giffords and 18 others standing line to meet her, including J. Eric Fuller. Before Sunday, J. Eric Fuller never presented himself for anything more than to shake his local congresswoman's hand. Drawing conclusions about American society or our political discourse on just one guy who never claimed to represent anybody but himself, is preposterous. … So guess what? …
One of my biggest pet peeves is seeing sports and politics mix, whether it's athletes making statements on a hot button issue the rabble rousing over the 2008 Olympics in China or Major League Baseball debating about hosting the All Star game in Arizona due to it's immigration law. With Martin Luther King day coming up on the 17th, ESPN goes into it's yearly event of talking to prominent black athletes and leaders during the civil rights era. In addition posting various polls on how white and black fans react to certain players and situations. ESPN tries to be non-controversial when discussing issues of race when they present themselves however bringing an asshole like Jesse Jackson is just a completely wrong move. Yes, Jackson was in...
Nietzsche describes this destruction as a shift in what is considered ‘good’, and then goes on to describe exactly what kind of morality the slave upholds; “The wretched alone are the good; the poor, impotent, lowly alone are the good: the suffering, deprived, sick, ugly alone are pious, alone are blessed by God, blessedness is for them alone.” This passage, in section 7 of the First Essay on the Genealogy of Morals, is Nietzsche admitting the inevitability, the direct and unavoidable consequences of any culture or society based around power. This is Nietzsche admitting, essentially, to being a Marxist. Nietzsche explicitly describes the movement from one dialectic to the next, from the notion of ‘good vs...
It is here we get our definition of the ‘strong’ man; he is not necessarily the man who is the strongest physically, the best mentally, or the most enduring emotionally. He is the man with the power. He has control over language itself, and thus the ability to define himself as ‘good’. But it is not only language he has power over, he has power over other people, and power in such magnitude that he is allowed to define the actions of those below him, and the people below him, as ‘bad’. This is an exercise in control; it creates a self-perpetuating loop of power and control, where the ‘good’ will always be the ones in control, never to be usurped by those who consider themselves, and call...
In the First Essay of the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche lays out his ideal of the ‘noble’, the ‘strong’ man, and explains his reasons for exemplifying the strong over his idea of ‘weak’. Nietzsche attempts to prove to the reader that the notions of ‘good’ and ‘evil’ are really the weak man’s attempts at making the strong man incapable of exercising his strength over the weak, and are ideals that the strong must disregard in order to be truly strong. Nietzsche exemplifies the aristocratic ideal, that there are a few strong men who should rule over the many because they alone can, and that any attempt by the many, by those being ruled, to overthrow or otherwise make a...
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