Since anomie has been brought to the table

[alice wellintown]

Keith, these are not my views on suicide or virtue or god(s) or
nature. Paul invited me to address the issue as outlined by Thomas
from Aristotle. I added Spinoza because, in the study of philosophy it
is common to treat this topic with these three philosophers, then
movew into moderns ...Nietzche ...Camus...and so on. I connected it,
with humor, to the other question we have been kicking about, that is,
our violent nature. In this I have astrong opinion: Humans are and
always will be makers of war. I agree with most of what JT has written
about the state of affairs in the world post WWII. Most of what he has
to say is not new or controversial to any of us who read the new york
times. Would the period (post WWII) have been better for the vast
majority had some other nations held coercive and decisive power?
Would the world be better of if the US were not the superpower, the
nation with coercive and decisive power? Well, I guess it would be
better if the use of coercive and decivie power were not our nature,
but, as we learn from science and from history and from nobel prize
winning authors like Golding (Lord of Flies), it is our nature. The
Beast is Us. My opnion is that such power is best when regulated by
the public, in a democracy. So, yes, I share many of JT's concerns
about the errosion of democracy in the sate that now has decivie and
coercive power and is using it.