There is something to be said for the content of the meme here, but only if you’re unwilling to look around and consider different ideas (see below, sorry about the typo). Before labor unions came along, there were eight-year-old kids …
Category: Sustainability
Displaying Low Integrity Would Have Shocked Anyone, But This?
I don’t think we impute too much integrity into U.S. politicians, most of whose M.O. consists of taking large donations from moneyed interests, and then repaying the donors with laws that provide them unfair benefits, at the expense of the …
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What Can We Learn from “Lower” Life Forms?
Dolphins behave similarly; they form fast-moving cylinders in which they trap the fish they will eat. What are the take-aways from this piece about the ants? Very little intelligence, at least as we conceive it, is required to optimize well-being …
Tagged with: optimize well-being for everyone
Build ‘Em To Fall Apart
When my parents were married in 1947, they were given a toaster as a wedding gift. When they moved out of my childhood home in perhaps 1995, I happened to notice that very appliance among their belongings. Before the late …
Inserting Compassion Into Our World
What a fabulous point writer Sigrid Ellis makes here. We love to be heroes, but we care very little about building a sustainable and compassionate world.
What Motivates Heroes To Become Pond Scum? Hell If I Know.
Re: Michael Flynn, a reader notes: A devolution. Went from “hero to zero.” From protector to villain. From soldier to criminal. Indeed. He pulled a “Giuliani.” For the life of me, I can’t understand why people who have lived lives …
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Improving Our Police Forces
A reader sent me this piece, a statement by a police chief: It’s not the police who need to be retrained, it’s the public. We have grown into a mouthy, mobile phone wielding, vulgar, uncivil society with no personal responsibility …
Tagged with: deaths of unarmed black people
Here’s Why Banning Books Won’t Work
In my piece Accessing Banned Books — Now!, I noted that sales of banned books are going through the roof. At left we see a related phenomenon–book clubs. As they say, there is no more effective way to create demand …
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The Continuity of American Racism
I agree that there is an “unbroken thread.” While we’ll never know, I theorize that we were just about to break that thread until social media came along. If white supremacists had not been able to connect with one another …
Banning Critical Race Theory Is More Serious Than One Might Think
Until I listened to Terry Gross’s interview with researcher Jeffrey Sachs (pictured), I thought the war against Critical Race Theory was simply a windmill that the far right could tilt its jousting stick at. Wrong. I learned that, “across the …
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