For the past two years, or so, I thought the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, was another Mikheil Saakashvili, a mere copycat; for the two made…
Posts published in “The Age of the Imbecile”
If you’ve accessed any social media platform over the past few days, you surely have come across “Breaking News” from mainstream media on the miraculous,…
Since time immemorial, as old as the transition from the pre-social to the post-social state of nature, as construed by Enlightenment philosophers, namely Jean-Jacques Rousseau…
In the wake of an appalling and heartbreaking war in Ukraine, the descendants of Imbecile [see, “What Is the Age of the Imbecile?”] labor to…
The American novelist Ernest Hemingway once said, “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” What a terrifying, yet most insightful, statement to…
In the Age of the Imbecile, one begins to wonder for how much longer will the term ‘human’ remain in use. More so, for how…
In the Age of the Imbecile, what is said is rarely what is meant—much less what is intended. We all too often communicate and converse…
Living on the edge of life is an idiom expressing a lifestyle exhibiting risk-taking, danger seeking, and sheer thrill. Taking things to the next level—to…
Social homogeneity and interconnectedness, in the absence of applied external directional force, remain inherently dialectical structural notions: simultaneously constructive and destructive. They produce coherent, harmonious,…
Imagine a third world country: torn by civil war; with a stagnating economy verging on full-paralysis; governance failure in every single aspect of public and…