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Gustave Doré's The Children's Crusade

9 Signs of a Childish Society

by wael on April 7, 2023 · 1 Comments

Let us jump straight into the subject with a somewhat ad hoc definition: a childish society is a society in which the bulk of adults do not live up to their intellectual and emotional potential as fully grown human beings. In other words, an observer might sense a lack or distortion of the kind of [...]

Nietzsche: Have I been understood?

by wael on September 21, 2009 · 0 Comments

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (or Thus spake Zarathustra according to the older, and more arcane sounding, title) is an ocean of deep thoughts and rare feelings.  Pictorially, it is a high mountain, with a chilly, rarified atmosphere, as Nietzsche himself intimated:  “the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a [...]