Cosmetic Surgery for the Sake of Approval
Women, especially models and actresses, are known to be willing patrons of cosmetic surgery. Hollywood is cruel toward the aging process, and the cameras...
Modernity’s False Idol: The Doctrine of Progress
Modernity, in other words, can always take care of itself on its own terms, and it is in no need of an old sage...
The Rise Of Mass Culture And Its Effects On Culture
The subject of any culture is man as an individual, as a personality, as the "unrepeatable individuality." The subject or object of mass culture...
Lessons On Happiness And Joy From Remote A Tribe
Human feelings, however, have very little connection with reason or logic. People who have every reason to be happy are found to be miserable,...
Why West Is Incapable Of Understanding Islam
Western culture is unique in that it has broken completely with its past except as an historical curiosity. Since the eighteenth century of the...
The New Generation of Youth
The new generation of youth has become lazy in the quest for knowledge, egocentric, and closed-minded. They are self-centered, extremely autonomous, and very independent....
Things That Corrupt Sedentary Culture
"Among the things that corrupt sedentary culture, there is the disposition toward pleasures and indulgence in them, because of the great luxury (that prevails)....
The Impoverished Modern Subject And Nationalism
Individual freedom and a rationally autonomous determination of destiny — relabeled by Marcuse as "democratic unfreedom" — amounted for Weber to a titanic tension...