Book Review: Political Ponerology
When the multiple layers of bodily movements, impulses, and perceptions are not creatively transformed into creative movements in the directions of freedom, feelings for others, and purpose, people become easily subject to mass media and ideologues who foment populist movements fueled by fear and disorientation.
Don Hanlon Johnson • Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics
Racism, classism, anti-Semitism, religious bigotry, and other misguided tribalisms have majored in this seductive but demonic attempt to locate and suppress or destroy the “toxins” that afflict us.
Robert L. Moore • Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity
Tyrants do not arise because humans are by nature evil, but because society does not acknowledge human goodness.
Sakyong Mipham • The Shambhala Principle: Discovering Humanity's Hidden Treasure
Populism gives life to Michel Foucault’s celebrated reversal of the Clausewitz dictum: Politics is the pursuit of war by other means.
Neil Howe • The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End
in the fascist imagination, there must be a victim to be protected and an invasive enemy on the attack: if young people are adopting beliefs in multiculturalism, gender fluidity, and socialism, then someone must be forcing these ideas on their innocence.