‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ posits a world where apes are given an evolutionary push by aliens who place monoliths all around the galaxy for them to find. It makes them journey through wormholes and the aim is to become a ‘star child’, an evolved human. […]
Zarathustra in Nietzsche’s ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ is convinced that philosophical enlightenment and evolving to become superman or Übermensch would improve a person dramatically. […]
Nietzsche understood our inherent desire to not attach ourselves with evil or any of its connotations. When language uses the categories of ‘good’ and ‘evil’, it ties straight to guilt and blame, thus trapping and suppressing us. […]
Nietzsche believed that the language we’ve developed has trapped us in a certain unhealthy position, and the primary surface manifestation of the problem is our continued captivity to the language of good and evil. […]
Friedrich Nietzsche’s most famous utterance is “God is Dead”. He felt that the repercussions of this were huge, but that it had not been fully comprehended by people yet. […]
Übermensch, as Nietzsche saw it, was a man not bound by conventional morality. It wasn’t necessarily a male and wasn’t genetically superior either. It was an individual who could, through his will power, master his own self. […]
America has outgrown some of its institutions and continues to struggle to find balance between liberty and equality. Democratic institutions need to be reformed to meet the needs of the society. […]
The United States is a democratic republic where elected representatives engage in policymaking process. Politics is the process that is used to develop and manage the mechanism of government. […]
America hasn’t been able to construct a system that guarantees liberties and gives every group an equal opportunity to participate in politics. […]
US foreign policy under President Trump did renegotiate economic ties with other countries but saw them more as trading partners and less as strategic global allies. […]
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