Getting Past "The End of History"

About the Book

Topics covered include Homophobic attacks; the theistic boot strapping of legal systems and ideas; repression stemming from addiction to television watching contributing to acts of terrorism; the trade deficit modifying the composition of the “power elite”; That the advancement of many of society’s goals are not included in the calculation of the GDP; discrepancies between male and female pay and who asks who out for a date; there is a discussion of sales and value added taxes being imposed on “the seller” rather than the buyer, in an effort to control inflation resulting from excessive wholesale to retail markups (see a May 30th entry); An alternative or perhaps new definition of narcissism, i.e., an attraction to the image of self or other in so far as the image appears to be unencumbered by real individually, personally experienced historical characteristics (from a May 23rd entry). A discussion of television’s effects upon childhood sexuality and subsequent socialization (June 9th entry). (June 19th entry): Origins of racial discrimination in America found in the identification of freed slaves with their previous masters rather than with members of the merchant and middle class; parallels with contemporary society drawn in that the television inhabiting class seems to embody the “masters” and the viewers the relatively powerless. The sources of societal and intersocietal peace lie in the maintained continual possibility of accountability between persons;

About the Author

Andreas Daniel Fogg was voluntarily admitted into psychiatric hospital shortly after entering graduate school in Anthropology, in an attempt to, through participant observation research, ascertain more about the nature of the psychological roots of human self destructiveness, which understanding he hoped might help humanity avoid large scale self destructive disasters. He currently lives alone in Somerville, Massachusetts.