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Are You Stupid?
Mihai Nadin
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Other title information: A Second Revolution Might Save America From Herself
Annotation: In the most dynamic and prosperous country on Earth-the USA-stupidity overshadows the intellectual and technical accomplishments that other nations envy. If Americans continue to delude themselves about their country, the USA will end up like the USSR: imploding from within. This work analyzes the systemic aspects of America's current condition: across-the-board-dumbing down through media and in education; growing dependence on and demand for entitlements; corruption in the private and political domains; chronic cronyism; the opportunistic engineering of reality. Consequently, individual and collective stupidity not only leads to crises, it renders the USA impotent in dealing with the challenges of the fast dynamics characteristic of our time of post-industrial capitalism oriented towards consumption. The causes for this state of stupidity are examined: the people's willful ignorance of the nation's true history and development; an economic system that does not foster a sense of citizenry; cultivated mediocrity in education and entertainment; corruption of justice; rampant consumerism; a state of prosperity that lulls the people into complacency. Taking the rewards of change for granted, Americans no longer understand what change entails. Gazing into the rear-view mirror of history in search of answers, they forget that the USA was founded in a world more similar to the 1st century than the 21st. Americans will have to start fighting their own stupidity instead of further exhausting the country's (and the world's) resources in wars and entitlement measures. America has to "reset" herself, within an authentic democratic process, on a foundation appropriate to the integrated world of the global information age.
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<i>Acedia: </i>A case study of a deadly sin and lively sign
Vincent Colapietro
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 357-380
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.357
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Anger, passion, and sin: From ethics to aesthetics
Jacques Fontanille; Isabelle Klock-Fontanille
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 145-176
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.145
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Contents/Sommaire Volume 117 (1997)
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 395-396
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.395
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Deuterium Abundance with FUSE
A. Vidal‐Madjar; R. Ferlet; Martin Lemoine; Fuse Team
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 355
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Emotionally charged intrigues: Signs of evil in <i>A la recherche du temps perdu</i>
Inge Crosman Wimmers
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 315-332
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.315
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Envy and the social construction of political reality in communities
Masao Yamaguchi
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 227-230
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.227
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LYα Absorbers at Low Redshift (z < 1.7)
Buell T. Jannuzi
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 93
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Medea and the paroxysm of female anger
Lucía Santaella
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 127-144
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.127
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Molecules at High Z
F. Combes; T. Wiklind
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 317
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Murasaki Shikibu vs. Sei Shonagon: A classical case of envy in medi-<i>evil </i>Japan
Tzvetana Kristeva
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 201-226
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.201
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Pour une sémiotique de l’orgueil
Norma Tasca
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 345-356
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.345
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Probing the Cosmic "Dark Age"
M. J. Rees
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 19
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Pursomania: The sin-sign of avarice
Dínda L. Gorlée
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 177-200
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.177
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QSO Damped LYα Absorption Systems at Low Redshift and the Giant Hydrogen Cloud Model for Damped LY&alpha
David A. Turnshek
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 263
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Seeing Double: Probing the Universe with Quasars Pairs
Chris Impey
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 173
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Sins and signs: Modern disguises of gluttony
Pia Brînzeu
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 231-238
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.231
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Sloth: A paradoxical, intricate sin
MARIANA NEŢ
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 381-394
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.381
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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.u
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Spectroscopy of Damped LYα Systems at Low Redshift
P. Boissé; V. Le Brun; J. Bergeron; J. M. Deharveng
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 257
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The concept of sin in antiquity, particularly in Homer
Minna Skafte Jensen
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 47-66
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.47
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The concept of sin in modern ethics
Niels Thomassen
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 113-126
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.113
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The Most Metal-Poor Stars
R. Cayrel
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 197
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The semiotic swarm of cyberspace: Cybergluttony and Internet Addiction in the global village
Jean Umiker‐Sebeok
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 239-298
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.239
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The seven deadly sins and the Catholic Church
John Deely
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 67-102
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.67
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The visual representation of the seven deadly sins in a tondo of Hieronymus Bosch
Martin Krampen
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 103-112
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.103
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Unruly genitals: Psychoanalysis: The disappearance of sin?
Jørgen Dines Johansen
In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00
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- 299-314
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.299
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