As we all know, there are greedy and selfish people in this world of ours, and these are certainly not virtuous traits. Yet, trying to be fair, people have the right to live by their own wits. If you’re Ebeneezer …
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From a reader: Filmmaker James Cameron says his family has permanently moved to New Zealand because it’s “sane” and “actually believes in science” compared to the US. “They already had a 98% [Covid] vaccination rate. This is why I love …
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IMO, we need a tax on extreme wealth, rather than income. We’re taking about people with hundreds of billions of dollars in net worth. Taking, say, 5% per annum of that wealth and using it to feed and clothe the …
When I was a young boy, my grandfather, who was one of the most politically conservative people I’ve ever known, told me to “make this world a better place than it was when you got here.” Now, that seems like …
Until Trump came along, it appeared that we were making fairly decent progress along these lines.
Re: the meme here, a reader responds, I am not afraid for myself, but I fear for others. See the difference? Exactly. I’m not afraid of the Gestapo because I’m not a Jew.
At left are the words of Erich Fromm, whom I would have called an early psychologist rather than a philosopher, but I suppose the boundaries are loose. In the main, most Americans, me included, are rule-followers, which is why we …
This sounds good on the surface, but the problem is that average Americans aren’t exposed to the thoughts of intellectuals, and even if they were, they a) couldn’t care less about them, or b) would reject them as “leftist propaganda,” …
It’s almost inconceivable that there was a time in history that the most powerful person on the planet, in this case the emperor of ancient Rome, was a supremely good person. Nowadays the precise opposite is trending: vicious criminal dictators.
As anyone could have predicted, there is a huge correlation between poor education/ignorance, moral poverty, and incarceration levels.
