Pharmakon V: Culture Wars—Trickle-Down Economics vs. Trickle-Down Morality
“Without this circumspection, advocacy appears heavy-handed, tone-deaf, mistimed, and ultimately self-defeating, to the detriment of the downtrodden.”
Duluxan Sritharan
Pharmakon IV: Secret Family Recipe
“Due to the repetitive observations made by most in their daily routines in a country with little socioeconomic mixing, there is poor visibility into how the lives of those in other classes transpire.”
Pharmakon III: Parable of the Talents
“Even more disturbingly, the odds of a state governor’s child eventually holding the same title is 1 in 51; 1 in 47 for Senators; 1 in 13 for Presidents; and 1 in 9 for billionaires.”
On Tucker Carlson and Sycophants
“Regardless of whether President Trump succeeds in his bid for re-election to the White House, those who think and speak like Carlson will likely suffer no retribution for throwing red meat to his base.”
Pharmakon II: Sold to the Corporate Libertarian
“Indeed, economist Thomas Piketty observes that the United States presents for the first time in history a society headed towards extreme inequality, driven not by hyper-patrimony (inherited wealth) but hyper-meritocracy…”
Pharmakon I: Post-Mortem
“The country is no longer predominantly rural but urban, and the frontier mindset has been largely superseded by a cosmopolitan one.”