Exorcizing the Hungry Ghosts: Following the Middle Path in a 21st-Century Western Culture

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul E. Priester ◽  
Joseph R. Priester
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Western Culture

Populism as the Cause of Legitimising Racism in Western Societies

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Przybyszewski ◽  
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Biological Differences

The article aims at demonstrating that a spike in populist narratives (fear management in order to evoke fear of the Other) in Western societies leads to the legitimization of a new type of racism, xenoracism. Societies belonging to the so-called Western culture in the second half of the 20th century were attached to the liberal values where every sign of racism was negatively perceived as pejorative and attempts were made at eradicating it. In the 21st century, in turn, various economic and social crises caused by, inter alia, globalizing processes, were attributed to liberal values which contributed to doing politics through fear management towards the Other. The difference between racism and xenoracism lies in the fact that the former was an ideology focused on biological differences while xenoracism abandoned such differences in favour of socially and culturally imbuing them with objective and unalterable character. Populist narratives evoking fear of the Other question that behaviours triggered by this fear result from racism despite the fact that these actions are virtually identical to the ones motivated by the ideology of racism. Therefore, such behaviours and activities are more commonly perceived as positive and not pejorative and as in effect acceptable.

Ctrl-Alt-Del: GamerGate as a precursor to the rise of the alt-right

Leadership ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 556-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin MS Bezio
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Film Industry ◽  
Music Industry ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Gaming Industry ◽  
Hollywood Film ◽  
Cultural Mores ◽  
Subsequent Rise

Videogames and the gaming industry in the 21st-century generate more employment and revenue than either the professional music industry or the Hollywood film industry, making videogames both highly lucrative and extremely influential on a cultural level. When we consider the significance of cultural artifacts—like videogames, or television, films, or books—on the development of cultural mores and our understanding of society, leadership, and followership, it is therefore important that we consider the influence of an industry as large and widespread as the games industry. In this article, I examine the particular influence of an online movement known as “GamerGate,” how it connects to the history and origins of the internet and videogames, how it connects to the subsequent rise of the alt-right, and what we can learn about the alt-right as a small but significant portion of contemporary Western culture—including what we need to do to dismantle it.

scholarly journals Ibuanyidanda and the Principle of Non-Contradiction: A Logico-Metaphysica Discourse of Asouzu’s Complementary

PREDESTINASI ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Elias Ifeanyi E. Uzoigwe
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
Aristotle's Metaphysics

Ibuanyidanda and The Principle of Non-Contradiction aims at instantiating the claims of Asouzu’s Complementary Reflection that whatever exists serves as a missing link of reality. Reality has been construed within a bifurcating frame of mind, a project that was characterized by the elitist mindset of Plato and was further espoused in Aristotle’s philosophy of essence. For Aristotle, the wise is destined to rule the unwise. This divisive mentality permeates the entire Western culture. Unfortunately, Placid Tempels made some African scholars to erroneously believe and argue that the Western understanding of being is static, while that of Africa is dynamic. This anomaly, among other things, is what Ibuanyidanda as a philosophy and a method of doing philosophy sets out to address. Ibuanyidanda ontology contends that reality can be better understood from the complementary point of view. The principle of non-contradiction championed by Aristotle and the Western scholars sees the opposite of being as non-being, but Asouzu’s complementary reflection sees the opposite of being as to be alone (ka so mu di). This work holds that ibuanyidanda complementary reflection is capable of handling the problems of contradiction that are apparent in the Western mode of philosophising. Opposites do not contradict themselves, they complement each other. Ibuanyidanda philosophy and its position are contrary to the views of Aristotle’s metaphysics and open to sight ontological updating - a good recipe for the advancement of 21st-century philosophizing. Analytic, textual, contextual, and historical methods are employed in this work.

E-Learning: Educating the 21st Century Speech-Language Pathologist

ASHA Leader ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (14) ◽  
pp. 24-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria D. Kellum ◽  
Sue T. Hale
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
E Learning

1521: Turp Syndrome in the 21st Century: A Historical Event

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 400-400
Author(s):  
Mark R. Young ◽  
Andrew R. Bullock ◽  
Rafael Bouet ◽  
John A. Petros ◽  
Muta M. Issa
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Turp Syndrome
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