DARK AGES AMERICA

This is the Blog for MORRIS BERMAN, the author of "Dark Ages America". It includes current publications and random thoughts about U.S. Foreign Policy, including letters and reactions to publications from others. A cultural historian and social critic, MORRIS BERMAN is the author of "Wandering God" and "The Twilight of American Culture". Since 2003 he has been a visiting professor in sociology at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. Feel free to write and participate.

December 13, 2023

The Charge of the Douche Brigade

Wafers-

I tell ya, I think I'm outta words this time around. What can one say? It's sorta like Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade," just a bit modified: "Douchebags to the right of us/Douchebags to the left of us/Douchebags in front of us/And yet the brave Wafers sallied forth..."

This is no exaggeration. You look around, and you see the US, Israel, and the Ukraine doing precisely the opposite of what they should be doing. Is it stupidity, or the strange attraction of these countries to self-destruction? Or is that the same thing as stupidity? I don't know, anymore. But I do know that there is one place we can all go if we are interested in reality rather than insanity and douchebaggery: right here, this blog. The one shining light in a world gone mad. So welcome!, and let us continue our discussion.

-mb

: Name: Morris Berman; Location: Mexico

Morris Berman is well known as an innovative cultural historian and social critic. He has taught at a number of universities in Europe and North America, and has held visiting endowed chairs at Incarnate Word College (San Antonio), the University of New Mexico, and Weber State University. During 1982-88 he was the Lansdowne Professor in the History of Science at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. Berman won the Governor’s Writers Award for Washington State in 1990, the Rollo May Center Grant for Humanistic Studies in 1992, and the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity (from the Media Ecology Association) in 2013. He is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–-The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000)–and in 2000 his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and during 2008-9 was a Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City.

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