As the wealthiest 1% of the entire American population owns 99% of the United States’ total cumulative wealth; likewise; the wealthiest 1% of all African-Americans currently owns 56% of the combined African-American cultural wealth as of 2011. This phenomenon occurred within the exact same two decades of capitalistic victory celebrations after the end of the Cold War; in 1991. During the same 20 years; 1991-2011; exactly one generation; while the U.S. experienced the decadence of toxic leveraged debt leading to the greatest housing market crash in the history of humanity; a global economic crisis; and the Great Recession; African-Americans; simultaneously; experienced the rise of the celebrity class which established the obvious realities of assimilation; acculturation; and the polarization of internal ethnic and cultural capitalism; i.e.; the rich and the poor class. According to projections; complete assimilation will occur; mirroring the present American economic polarization of wealth; when the richest 1% of all African-Americans will own 98% of their entire net-worth by 2026. Slavery is no longer blatantly existent but abstract through various forms of enslavement. Segregation is no longer spatial or racial but internal. The oppressor is no longer racism; its classism. The greatest division in America is between the “haves†and “have-not’sâ€!
#806973 in Books Peter T Struck 2016-07-19Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.30 x 1.00 x 6.00l; .0 #File Name: 069116939X304 pagesDivination and Human Nature A Cognitive History of Intuition in Classical Antiquity
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. A surprising take on how the ancient Greeks saw divinationBy Massimo PigliucciPeter Struck presents a scholarly; yet eminently accessible; treatment of the concept of divination in Ancient Greece. It is far too easy to dismiss the practice today as nothing more than superstition among preliterate people. Except that those people were highly literate; and included some of the giants of Western intellectual history; from Plato to Aristotle to the Stoic philosophers. Struck doesn't attempt to rehabilitate divination for the 21st century -- which would be silly -- but rather re-interprets the ancients' take on it; convincingly showing that they distinguished two types: i) divination done by experts; using clues from natural phenomena such as atmospheric happenings and animal entrails; and ii) divination done by people with unusual abilities to somehow perceive the future. The first one is a type of natural science; the latter is akin to what we call intuition. You will never look at divination; or the ancient Greeks; quite in the same manner after reading this insightful book.1 of 2 people found the following review helpful. intriguing and lively explorationBy Heidi EttingerFascinating and incisive - original premise; written with verve and erudition.
