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The Oil Crisis of 1973 underscored the environmental movement, down-sizing, and a general retreat from what man once called “progress”. Were the world’s natural resources running out? Many thought so. Or were they simply (in the case of oil) being used by our enemies to jerk us around. Recession, “Staglation”, and a low GNP followed [...]

World War I (despite its horror) fostered some positive innovations – plastic surgery, safe blood transfusion, improved IQ tests (also more widely used),taking of vitamins, understanding of blood physiology, greater acceptance of psychiatry and analysis. Regardless of such progress, there is often a drawing back and pressing down of the human spirit.
Wittgenstein (1918) said that [...]

The “End of the Age of Ideology” was the theme for guest speakers at the 1955 meeting of the Congress of Cultural Freedom. David Bell saw Ideology as a set of governing ideas “infused with passion” which sought to transform life. He felt that ideology’s heyday had been the 19th and early 20th Century. Ideology [...]