What Ben Franklin says here makes sense. In particular: We don’t want to live among hateful morons, not only because they’re repulsive, but because such people, when given the right to vote, tend to elect demagogues, aka criminal sociopaths. If …
Category: Sustainability
Most of Our Worries Are Manufactured
This beautifully written piece at left reminds us that most Americans are not capable of discarding the bullshit to which we are exposed on a daily basis, and, in particular, how little threat the transsexual population represents to us. Three …
Tagged with: the transsexual population
Pope Francis’ Legacy
It would be foolish to think that Pope Francis made a dent in the hate and hypocrisy of the Christian right, but at least he tried.
Tagged with: Pope Francis' Legacy
Pope Francis, Humanitarian
Pope Francis will never be forgotten, in particular for the fact that he completely transformed the Catholic Church into a humanitarian institution. Some people may not be able to appreciate this fully, as they may be unaware that, for 1600 …
Classical Music in the United States
Re: the meme here, the truth is that very few Americans care a whit about either.
Two Thousand Years Hence
My recent post The Human Condition According to a Famous Stoic presents Roman philosopher Seneca‘s bold statement at left, but it also raises the question: Are there any people of our current era that will be the subject of conversation …
Tagged with: The Human Condition
The Human Condition According to a Famous Stoic
Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca made a bold statement at left, though most of human culture acts as though there is no truth to his statement whatsoever. We live our lives surrounded by never-ending war, torture, the death penalty, poverty/hunger, injustice, …
Tagged with: The Human Condition
Recipe for the End of Humankind
This from senior physicist Dr. Brian Cox. I’d have to add in greed and selfishness.
Tagged with: Recipe for the End of Humankind
The Future of Humankind
If I were asked to make the prediction posed below, I would say none of the above, and suggest that some combination of environmental collapse, certainly including climate change, will wipe out many, but not all human beings. There is …
What to Make of Slavery
At left is a reminder that: It’s a good idea to have a federal government that is strong enough to override the states when it comes to certain matters, and just because something’s not explicitly written into the original Constitution …
Tagged with: What to Make of Slavery
