Malcolm X, the portrait of a free man.
“Our position has never changed. If you sit at the back of the plane and it's going a hundred miles an hour, and you're on the back of the plane, well it can start going a thousand miles an hour; you're going faster, but you're still at the back of the plane. And that's the same way with the Negro in this society, we started out at the rear and we're still in the rear.”
The man who missed the moonlight
The moonlight is lovely tonight.
But I didn’t mean to write about this; my intention was to talk about a man who missed the moonlight.
(What...
The “Medusa Complex” in Greek society
Think of an antelope herd grazing on savannah land. The grass is tender; it stopped raining just a couple days before. The antelopes chomp,...
Why all “surveys” and “tests” portray us as good?
It’s no-brainer to notice: every “survey” that makes the rounds on the internet makes evident (proof-laden) how smart all of us are. Not “in...
The loneliness of the wise man
The wise man, namely Homo sapiens sapiens, is the only surviving species of its genus. This is somewhat unusual.
The animals of most genera have...
I consume, therefore I am
In Wim Wenders’ documentary film Buena Vista Social Club about the music of Cuba we see some great old-Cuban musicians playing music and talk...
