Stan Goff

Even scientists and academics are frequent prey to the delusion that reality is reducible. Fear, deep and wide, is the secret motive force of much human behavior, and I think reduction is often rooted in fear. Passing over fear, I think, is the beginning of every liberatory project.

I would add entertainment media cheerleader Wolf Blitzer, CNN__ Pentagon sycophant in Kuwait City, a representative of the neon press, neon being that colorless, inert gas that lights up on command.

The author also participated in Operation Uphold Democracy (in Haiti, a year after the catastrophic denouement of Operation Restore Hope in Somalia). ... Hope was not restored in Somalia. Democracy was not upheld in Haiti.

American culture is a sheep culture__ong on talk about individualism, but even longer on absolute conformity. Most still believe that individuality is based on which model car you like best__ommodity identity, a selection of personalities on a shelf full of products approved by the Federal Identity Administration. I__ a Taurus aspiring to be a Lexus.