Dr Aloy Chife Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Dr Aloy Chife

An absurd and petrified form of thinking acquainted more with 10th Cent feudalism. Conveys a limited understanding about the basic nature of the modern system of government and the underlying political philosophy. Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” Thomas Paine, “The Rights of Man” Etc* https://t.co/UppJGotFiC

Dr Aloy Chife

An absurd and petrified form of thinking acquainted more with 10th Cent feudalism. Conveys a limited understanding about the basic nature of the modern system of government and the underlying political philosophy. Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” Thomas Paine, “The Rights of Man” Etc* https://t.co/UppJGotFiC

Dr Aloy Chife

We walked on frosted fields of juniper and lamplight I held your hand And when I awoke and felt you warm and near I kissed your honey hair with my grateful tears Oh I love you girl Oh I love you” “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” -Simon & Garfunkel

Dr Aloy Chife

@ujahmycine Else, Søren Kierkegaard reminds us in “Fear and Trembling” we toil “slavishly under the law of indifference; and the genie of the ring obeys whoever has the ring, whether he is a Noureddin or Aladdin, and whoever has the world’s treasures has them no matter how he got them” 3/END

Dr Aloy Chife

Regarding the spare parts and container reference (a refrain of people socialized to disregard hard work) Emeka works very hard to make his money. And it is precisely his Weberian work ethic (Weber, “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism”) that makes great nations 8/

Dr Aloy Chife

Honored to receive an autographed copy of the acclaimed “Choosing the Hero: My Improbable Journey and the Rise of Africa's First Woman President” from my old friend and author, Riva Levinson. Riva’s K Street Washington DC, KRL International, is the leading Africa advocacy group https://t.co/FxxmyCUTLt

Dr Aloy Chife

“Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event.” “The Crisis” by Thomas Paine December 23, 1776 American war of independence https://t.co/FhGwNpfPCJ

Dr Aloy Chife

@tonyprinciotti I’ll greatly recommend: 1) Claudio Monteverdi, “L’Orfeo” (London Baroque feat. conductor: Charles Medlam) 2) Henry Purcell, “Dido and Aeneas” (William Christie: Les Arts Florissants)

Dr Aloy Chife

@joaomarinheiro @amachefe @goldengateblond @cchukudebelu Indeed. Georges Sorel in "Reflections On Violence" (1908) refers to it (democracy) as "the paradise of which unscrupulous profiteers dream"

Dr Aloy Chife

“Do not act as if thou were going to live a thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in they power, be good.” -Marcus Aurelius, “Meditations”