Word: extinctionism
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"Not famine, not pestilence, not war will bring back seriousness," Kierkegaard once said. "It is not till the eternal punishments of hell regain their reality that man will turn serious." German Philosopher Karl Jaspers feels that there is a fairly vivid equivalent of the horrors of hell in the threatened...
This issue is whether or not the system by which we elect Presidents needs reforming. The election's graphic illustration of how popular and electoral votes may be disparate has troubled many; such varied political figures as the Senate Majority Leader, Mike Mansfield, Sen. Javits, and Norman Thomas, not to...
Maritally, U.S. Society abandoned the "double standard" only to adopt the quadruple and sextuple standards. Gentleman Editor Frank (Vanity Fair) Crowninshield epigrammatized the situation: "Married men make very poor husbands." By their second or third generations, most U.S. moneyed clans are marked for either 1) distinction, 2) extinction. Those that...
He cited Winston Churchill, who himself has steadfastly refused a peerage on the ground that "it is a terrible thing for a father to doom his son to political extinction." Implacably, Lord Hastings, whose title dates back to 1290, replied: "You cannot make a peerage a convertible commodity," and the...
"Squeezed to Death." Does this mean that the Malthusian limit will never be reached? Not so, says Physicist Heinz von Foerster, 48, of the University of Illinois, the latest to cry extinction of the human race. He does it, not as a mystic does, having undergone some shattering revelation, but...