Notes from the Underground: Dialogue with a World in Disarray

Dr. Donald DeMarco is a noted philosopher and award-winning journalist. He earned his Master¿s and Doctoral degrees from St. John¿s University, New York. Thirty-two books bear his name as author, some having been translated into various languages. He has lectured extensively at Yale, Notre Dame, New York University, and other educational centers.

Writing from the ¿underground¿ and attempting to dialogue with a world in disarray represents a twofold problem. But it also represents a twofold challenge. My position in the ¿underground¿ should not be compared with Dostoevsky¿s narrator in his Notes from the Underground, except as a criticism of governments who, by planning for utopia, disregard the rights of so many of its citizens. I write from the ¿underground¿ because I oppose the reigning ideology of the day which is political correctness. To be politically incorrect is to be marginalized from society and seen as a pariah. Nonetheless, even as an underground writer, I still have a voice that can be heard and what I feel is a corrective that can be applied. This work is an attempt to offer ideas that are missing from the popular agenda. It is a compilation of ¿notes,¿ rather than a series of lengthy argumentations, offered to people of good will who are disturbed by the incoherence of contemporary thinking and are seeking to place their moral convictions on a more rational, secure, and consistent basis.