On the Catastrophic Consequences of Embracing Ignorance, Insulation and Falsehoods
Region: New MexicoOne would think that the most important thing on Earth these days would be to always strive to speak the truth … even if we’d tried and failed, for whatever the reasons -- we’re o... more
Views: 1538The Great Leveling, Phase 1
Region: New MexicoThe guy interviewed on NPR this day said that once our “credit crunch” is resolved in America, people will race out and buy homes. He’s wrong, as are economists who believe this. Rapidly increasing ... more
Views: 1622Profits in Collapse: the Detmer Curve
Region: New MexicoIt’s been an observable phenomenon dating back to the middle 80s: the less money you receive in salary while all other prices go up around you, the less money you have to spend as a consumer -- duh. Thus, the Detmer ... more
Views: 1526Impotence of the Democrats
Region: New Mexico
What follows is an unflattering critique of America’s Democratic Party from one of its own. The party’s primary problems (no pun intended) sabotage its wannabe image as the Party of Change. W... more
Views: 1460Greed Revisited
Region: United States
More and more it appears as if 2008 might become The Year The Truth Began To Be Spoken -- particularly in these United States. That’s sure to be a welcome transformational experience for a culture long steeped in smi... more
Views: 1800American Misanthropes
Region: New MexicoWe can now give “campus rampage” killers and their lot a name: American Misanthropes. What’s unexpectedly unsettling about them is coming to realize (a) we created them, out of a toxic pot of existentiali... more
Views: 3221The Coming Years
Region: United StatesThings just may begin to appear as if we human beings are bent on a sort of mass suicide. Yet given the chance, there’s another way to voyage through prospective hard times ahead sans the adjective, grim, being highl... more
Views: 1471Monopolyland: the Fragile Virtual World of Big Business
Region: New MexicoIt’s one thing to suggest that Corporate True Believers are disinclined to live in the real world with the rest of us -- but quite another to get such folks to at long last admit that everyone, but everyone, around t... more
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Born in Paterson, N.J., and having grown up in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Donald Croft Brickner has published his ontologically-rooted philosophical social critiques and essays in numerous locations/websites on the Internet for four years. An honorably-discharged enlisted journalist (and DINFOS grad) in the Navy, he went on to spend 14 years as a newspaper reporter, editor and columnist. A graduate of the University of Maine (B.A. in philosophy) and a former MFA graduate student at Chapman University, Orange, California, he presently resides in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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