Showing results for "The Beast" in Sociology

Something unimaginable occurred from 1764 to 1767 in the remote highlands of south-central France. For three years, a real-life monster, or monsters, ravaged the region, slaughtering by some accounts more than 100 people, mostly women and children, and inflicting severe injuries upon many others.

**The 2022 Lammy Award Winner in Transgender Nonfiction** Exploring the intersections of Blackness, gender, fatness, health, and the violence of policing. To live in a body both fat and Black is to exist at the margins of a society that creates the conditions for anti-fatness as anti-Blackness...

To many in the age of Obama, America had succeeded in "going beyond race", putting the divisions of the past behind us. And then 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri; and then Baltimore blew up; and then gunfire shattered a prayer meeting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Suddenly the entire country awakened to a stark fact: Young Black men are an endangered species.

For years, the "Mark of the Beast" has been relegated to the realm of fringe theory—a bogeyman for the superstitious, a metaphor for moral decay, or a plot point in low-budget cinema. But as I cross-referenced the functional requirements of a global, cashless economy with the specific constraints outlined in Revelation 13, the skepticism I had carefully cultivated began to erode. I realized that we have been looking for a villain—a singular, dark figure to appear on the world stage—when we should have been looking for an infrastructure. The "Beast" is not a man. It is a system.