About a week ago, a Republican reader asked me, “What does Ukraine mean to us Americans?” I responded:
Category: Sustainability
Karma Explained
The problem is that karma doesn’t work like this, unless we are somehow reincarnated. Otherwise, Donald Trump wouldn’t have seen his high school graduation.
We Can Agree…..Oh, Wait, No We Can’t
In his book on operant conditioning, Walden Two, B. F. Skinner writes (and I paraphrase), “We can agree that love is better than hate, that peace is better than war, and that productive energy is better than neurotic sloth.” Now, …
Old Fogies Generally Rebuke the Younger Generation
“Grown-ups” have always had issues with the culture of young people. Adults in ancient Athens thought that Western Civilization was doomed because they deemed the youth of the day to be lazy, decadent, and uninterested in learning. I remember quite …
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Tagged with: Western Civilization
What Supports the Poor and Working Class?
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 …
Tagged with: environmental and safety restrictions
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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