The existential philosopher, Martin Heidegger coined the term "existential schizophrenia" to describe a general cultural morass already in the early 20th Century when crazy-making, repetitive factory work and the madness of war had already set in.
"Sunday was lethargic from the beginning as I wallowed in a morass of general and specific dislike and pity for most people but me especially," Ms. Rodham reported in a letter postmarked Oct. 3, 1967.
In the absence of either a clear political horizon or bold, pragmatic policies, the economy has stumbled into a morass, even as the generals stretched their timetable for democracy from months to years, and hinted that even then they expected to retain a dominant role.This was not the revolution that many Egyptians feel they fought and suffered for.
But inevitably it's only a matter of time before he sees something he shouldn't and finds himself dragged into a morass of drugs, brutality and general unwholesomeness.
General Musharraf is in charge of this morass, and -- under strong pressure from President Bush, and less visible nudging from China -- he has acted decisively to pull his country toward reality.
When someone you know is in the depths of the morass known as brain cancer in general — and glioblastoma in particular — the worst thing you can do is to send milquetoast, meaningless sentiments to people in the trenches.
Or perhaps they reflected the general national mood that we needed to move on from the morass that the Nixon presidency had become.
That anyone is spending their valuable time speculating these things, only proves that departing from the tried-and-true theories of general relativity (to explain macrocosms) and quantum mechanics (to explain microcosms) leads one to a morass of utter nonsense.
General Dempsey said that the same tribal hatreds, sectarian violence, and untrustworthy alliances that made Afghanistan a quicksand-like morass are very much in evidence in Syria: "I am confident that we could be involved in Syria for many, many years before figuring out why we are there".
