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The book argues that both the Republican and the Democrat political parties are responsible for the decline of democracy in the United States. It premises objective evidence of how the current political crisis in the U.S. in particular, and in the West in general, is a result of the disregard of the Greeks by the U.S. Constitution as well as the gradual withdrawal of the Classics from our educational system. The book concludes that the current state of affairs leads to a new form of totalitarianism.
The core argument of this book is that the current political unrest in America and the West is ultimately traceable to the utter failure of Western education. The purging of the Greeks from our schools with the masquerade that was modernity, combined with a constitutional anti-intellectualism in America, has bred generations of Western citizens who cannot think. In the absence of human thought market ideologies have enjoyed a long leash to establish as incontestable the idea that any existential proposition alternative to their own is nothing but an arrogant desire to redesign life itself. In our "Age of Trumpism," where President Trump is summoned to check uncritical progressivism, and where technoligarchs have availed themselves to either side, stupefied electorates must choose from either a preanthropic or a metanthropic future.
In the absence of any anthropic constancy, either one of the alternatives are served by unfettered encroaching technologies that entail forms of totalitarianism as never before. It may be already too late, this book argues, but to bring back human thought towards the possibility of democracy and freedom, is to assess our situation out of Heidegger's phenomenology and the metaphysical objectivity of Greek tragic art.
Contents
Chapter 1: ART AND DEMOCRACY
The Absurdity of Defending One's Own Demise
The Grassroots Movement: Not How Democracy Works
The Electoral Body and the Body of the Statue
'Who Is Talking?'
The Grassroots Movement: Not How Democracy Works
The Electoral Body and the Body of the Statue
Chapter 2: THE ORIGIN OF THE WEST
The Western Embodiment of Spatiality
The Western Embodiment of Temporality
The Embodiment of Western Logic
The Embodiment of the Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
Chapter 3: REALIST MYSTIQUE
Where Culture and Nature Never Meet
The 'West' Is Not in Decline
Is Laokoön Either a Representation or an Idealization?
The Statue of Liberty and Last Man's Dream
Chapter 4: AMERICAN NIGHTMARE
E Pluribus Unum or Homo Homini Lupus?
The Grassroots-Light Movement as Social Immobilizer
Armpit Aromatherapy and the Pilgrim Polis-on-the-Run
The American Constitution's Germinal Arrogating of Reason
Marketing the Idiot: The Art of the Deal
Chapter 5: THINKING OURSELVES OUT OF BUSINESS
The Strategic Backlash and its Four-Pronged Tactics
Deep Grassrooting: The Use and Abuse of People's Religiosity
Deep Grassrooting and the Exchange of Owning the 'Elites'
The Deepest Most Grassrooting: Uprooting Reason
Chapter 6: THINKING OURSELVES OUT OF EDUCATION
The Kind of Thinking that 'Educates'
The Call for More Welders and Less Philosophers
How to Educate People out of Thinking: 'Just Think Big'
Does Tyranny Necessarily Follow the Failure of Education?
Chapter 7: LEARNING NOTHING
"Phronēsis" and the Sources of Danger for Humanity
Music and Leftish Economic Theory
It's About Time Again: America Must Have another Talk with Greece
Towards a Dow Jones Index Trading Nothing
