Tag Archives: human-rights
How Class Consciousness Makes us Forget Consciousness
Class consciousness makes us forget consciousness. This is a simple idea that is rendered contentious by the fact that it is seen to be complicated. There are two separate ways in which this idea is rendered contentious. The first is right-wing ideology and the second is the left-wing ideology. In right-wing cultures politically mediated reference […]
Political Hypocrisy: Why Being Apathetic is Being Democratic
Power, sovereignty, authority – whatever we choose to call this ruling force – is forever doomed to be hypocritical. By that is meant that whoever, or whichever party has the power to make the exception will never be true to the cause and intent of the regime that they promote because power is always the […]
The Internet: A Question of Corporate Corruption and Propagated Misapprehension
Those who follow the papers and engage in the characteristically paranoid behaviour of an informed internet surfer will miss out on what the internet is designed to do for us. Those who are uninformed and surf the net to their heart’s content, posting whatever they please about their personal lives get out of the internet […]
An Assessment of Mental Health Awareness Organisations
The goal of most mental health awareness organisations is usually to educate the public about the nature of mental illness. If you check on almost any of these websites (take for example http://www.mind.org.uk/about/our_mission or http://www.aware.ie/about/who-we-are/our-mission/), their mission statement will look something like: “our aim is to educate the public on the nature of mental illness […]
A Limitation of the Political Stance in Context
Bureaucratic failures of imagination are often presented as epistemological truths for which the unaccommodated person is in turn held responsible. This is an example of the tyranny of the majority, which exists in varying levels of extremity, but which requires only a position of authority to be such. A reversal of perception occurs once the […]
Leadership Versus Power
The majority hold the conception of power and leadership to be intertwined, i.e. they are inseparable, that one is dependent on the other and vice versa. I, however, disagree with this notion and will therefore attempt to divide the two concepts and offer a new outlook, deriving from fundamental principles and consequences of each in […]
Projecting the Void 