Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Monday, March 17, 2008 1:18:41 AM
“I looked into Putin’s eyes, and I saw three things, a ‘K’ a ‘G’ and a ‘B,’” – John McCain
Vladimir Putin
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Strategic Intention and Mass Man
by J. R. Nyquist
There recently appeared an essay by
Anthony Daniels, published in
The New Criterion, in which he summarized Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset’s notion of “mass man” as the man “who goes from distraction to distraction, who is prey to absurd fashions, who never thinks deeply….” In the first decade of the twenty-first century this is all too familiar. In 2008 we live in a society dominated by “mass men,” overtaken by mass psychology, mass media, mass schooling and the mass ignorance presently crowding in around us.
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