The Ferguson riots of 2014 were a seminal moment in modern America life not only as a social phenomenon but with regards to its impact on American culture. The images that it already conjures up in the popular imagination are already vividly iconic and indicative of the times, serving as a cultural milestone in the national history. The name of this small suburb of St Louis, “Ferguson”, serves as shorthand for the civil unrest that embodied the current social struggles of the entire nation, touching upon a series of festering issues that had been previously masked under the veil of imperial prosperity, the arrogant assumption of a post-racial society.
The culmination of the deep rooted flaws in social architecture that could allow public challenges to the rule of law cannot be boiled down to a singular incident. Thus, to examine Ferguson qua phenomenon in the absence of historical context creates a vacuum in the analysis of American culture, it allows for conclusions to be drawn too hastily, too self-servingly in the …show more content…
As objective as one may claim to be, I cannot believe that one can truly commit any action let alone an intellectual analysis without being deeply influenced by their fundamental values as conscious beings. The bedrock of philosophical inquiry meets the starting point of human thought with the most basic questions whose answers, varied as they may be, determine the ways in which man perceives the most basic elements of life, and consequently the most complex. What is the true root of knowledge? Is there an objective truth? Are there any ontological absolutes? The answers to these questions must be given by every human being, consciously or subconsciously, not as a matter of rational duty but as a fact of life; the answers to these questions are needed by any complex mind to function in the long-term amid a complex web of free agents, successfully completing the dance we call
The culmination of the deep rooted flaws in social architecture that could allow public challenges to the rule of law cannot be boiled down to a singular incident. Thus, to examine Ferguson qua phenomenon in the absence of historical context creates a vacuum in the analysis of American culture, it allows for conclusions to be drawn too hastily, too self-servingly in the …show more content…
As objective as one may claim to be, I cannot believe that one can truly commit any action let alone an intellectual analysis without being deeply influenced by their fundamental values as conscious beings. The bedrock of philosophical inquiry meets the starting point of human thought with the most basic questions whose answers, varied as they may be, determine the ways in which man perceives the most basic elements of life, and consequently the most complex. What is the true root of knowledge? Is there an objective truth? Are there any ontological absolutes? The answers to these questions must be given by every human being, consciously or subconsciously, not as a matter of rational duty but as a fact of life; the answers to these questions are needed by any complex mind to function in the long-term amid a complex web of free agents, successfully completing the dance we call