I was rewatching that flick "American History X" recently, and of course in many ways with these "far right" movements and hate crimes, what we're experiencing in Ireland currently in terms of concept, is not that far removed. Burning asylum centers whilst the most vulnerable are forced to sleep on the street, rioting, looting, societal disjoint, etc. The reality is, and it's a long standing reality and one present to varying degrees in almost every country, is the societal dichotomy... Read more ..read more

There's probably an infinite number of video excerpts and clips to demonstrate my contention of why multiculturalism is a difficult problem to solve: Basically what I'm saying is, what really underwrites it, is the sexual impetus. Societal policies however, are not designed to facilitate sexual development. If anything, they do the opposite. Put a person in, what is to them, an un-natural, uncomfortable of difficult situation (like being transplanted into an... Read more ..read more

Here is the Audibook of Unrestricted Wrfaree. a bookpublished in1999andreadily availableon EBay. Click to expand... It has caused quite a furore ..read more

That was very sad news from the Israeli/Gaza border of around 250 young people slaughtered while partying, with at least one Irish/Israeli citizen missing presumed dead. Israeli music festival: 260 bodies recovered from site where people fled in hail of bullets Festival-goers describe mass panic as they fled and hid in bushes as a trance music party came under attack. www.bbc.com Responsibility obviously lies with those who killed them, but how much responsibility should tour operators (and indeed tourists themselves) bear for their own safety when booking a holiday in a potential war zon ..read more

In his book, Enlightenment Now, Steven Pinker makes two basic claims; firstly, that the world is a better place than it used to be by reference to various metrics such as quality of life, hunger, poverty, violence etc; secondly, that the reason for this improvement is enlightenment values such as reason, science, progress and humanism. It is very hard to deny that he has a point in relation to the first claim, though there may be arguments to be made that this is a qualitative... Read more ..read more

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that man is naturally good and that vice and error are alien to him. This creates a conflict between “nature” and “artifice” in attitudes to society, education and religion. In Emile or On Education he explores these notions in great depth. The book explores "how, in particular, the individual might retain what Rousseau saw as innate human goodness while remaining part of a corrupting collectivity" Rousseau's ideas were taken up by the leaders... Read more ..read more