Essays for Our Times by Glenn Parton
1. Political Eros
"Awareness that another world is possible is not achievable through intellect alone . . .for the answer comes partly and originally from Nature, which requires sexual openness and freedom if it is to reach the human mind." Read the Essay.
2. Integral Politics
"Real Democracy in America must include an expansion of sexual freedom that opens the heart and the mind." Read the Essay
3. Unthinkable Dream
"If you want community, then have the honesty and courage to accept it for what it is; namely, a meeting of hearts and minds that influence and move one another, according to their inherent natures, powers, desires, in a self-balancing, dynamic social constellation." Read the Essay
4. Love Politics
"The intelligence of the universe, the wisdom of evolution, extends into us, first, as a physical vibration, then as sexual desire, then as love, and finally as a concept or idea." Read the Essay
5. What About the Radicals, Mr. Lakoff?
". . .we need a dual strategy for social change: short-term election victories, and long-term tribal rumblings/beginnings in which we think, talk, listen, and act in new ways outside the nuclear family box. . ." Read the Essay
6. The Demise of Capitalism New
"As an American, I’m posting a WARNING! of a social undertow that is getting stronger and stronger --namely, we are becoming cynics, fatalists, people who surrender to death . . . because this hyper-capitalist economy is making us so selfish, greedy, and miserable that we have become complicit in our own social annihilation." Read the Essay
Glenn Parton is a non-academic political philosopher. You are invited to read his essays and contact the author if you have comments or questions.
