July 2013

Violence: Global problem or our way of life?

A woman walks into the emergency room (ER) of a local hospital with complaints of difficulty in breathing and intense sharp pain in her chest. The doctor in the emergency room orders immediate X-rays and the diagnosis – Two Shattered Ribs. The wife describes to the ER doctor that, at one moment the husband and […]

Absurd Man +/- Absurd World Sociology of the Absurd

  “The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but the consequences and rules of action drawn from it.” – Albert Camus     In this article, Michael Hviid Jacobsen […]

Violence: Global problem or our way of life?

A woman walks into the emergency room (ER) of a local hospital with complaints of difficulty in breathing and intense sharp pain in her chest. The doctor in the emergency room orders immediate X-rays and the diagnosis – Two Shattered Ribs. The wife describes to the ER doctor that, at one moment the husband and […]