A reader notes: Donald Trump just endorsed Viktor Orban. Orban is an anti-Semitic, racist, authoritarian despot who has crushed democratic institutions in Hungary, attacked the free press, and politicized rule of law. No wonder Trump likes him. All our lives …
Category: Sustainability
Vicious Cycle in Public Education
The point being made here may sound obvious to you, but that’s because you’re an educated person who understands a) this core tenet of public schooling, and b) that you’re not well equipped to craft school curricula.
Tagged with: public education
U.S. Democracy Teetering on the Brink, But Let’s Keep This in Perspective
This does sound scary until you realize that whatever happens here and now in the United States is just a blip on the screen of world history. All would-be totalitarians ban the teaching of truth, but, even if they are …
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The Simplicity of Being a Decent Human Being
We really do have a twisted notion of what it means to want our fellows to be healthy. It’s a shame we have such a hard time with the core elements of living in a society.
Dostoyevsky on Suffering
This quote here reminds me of a time when I was running my marketing services agency. I had many personal assistants through the decades, but my favorite one called me, in tears, one morning at home shortly before I left …
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Looking Ahead
Considering the events of the past two years, few of us have high hopes for 2022. I don’t feel that way. There is a very good chance that this year will see a pandemic under control, the insurrection put to …
Getting There from Here
Seems like a good time to remind Americans that socialism and capitalism do not exist in their pure form anywhere on this planet. Take a moment and imagine our lives without our physical infrastructure, police, fire fighting, criminal justice, national …
Good People Outnumber the Bad Guys, But That’s Not What Counts
We all understand that good people outnumber bad people by many orders of magnitude. Sadly, that’s not the issue that’s going to serve as the make/break point in determining the outcome of human civilization. The power of unchecked evil runs …
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Sick People Dying of Treatable Disease
I wish I could think of something nice to say about American society as we enter the year 2022, but we’re not getting much right. In particular, we have an extremely cruel healthcare system, held in place only because of …
So Long, Desmond Tutu
Critiques of capitalism have been rolling around in human civilization since the publication of Das Kapital in 1867. I’m not here to add anything substantive to that conversation, except to address the issue posed here by the late Desmond Tutu. …
