It’s easy for us to forget that we are all participants in a society that is constantly morphing, for better or for worse. As individuals, we create the civilization in which we and our desendants will live. Take a long …
Category: Sustainability
There Is Value in Traditional Education, But Not Everyone Sees It That Way
It’s interesting how many of the world’s great minds regard traditional education as “mental programming” or “forced conformity.” Could you or I have come to the knowledge we now have by teaching ourselves to read, and then going through books …
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Jefferson on Aristocracy
Happy 278th birthday to Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence. As part of his role as a Founding Father, Jefferson noted: “There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… …
More on Political Correctness
In response to this discussion of political correctness, blogger/novelist Steve Vachss writes: Hi Craig, You make excellent points. There are, however, a few different kinds of PC language. Some are insulting putdowns simply intended to intimidate someone who has erred …
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Political Correctness and Cancel-Culture
An old friend and business associate, Steve Vachss, is now a blogger and novelist. His current piece on political correctness and cancel-culture includes: Professional surveys indicate that 60 to 80 percent of Americans reject PC language or cancel-culture. Most people …
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Policing in America
What Jon Stewart is saying here is absolutely true, which is why it’s both stupid and insulting when the Blue Lives Matter people say that progressives hate cops. No, we don’t. We simply want them to stop murdering unarmed black …
How Valid Is Your Ideology?
I guess I’d never looked at it like what’s shown in the meme here. One way to assess an ideology is to quantify how likely you and others are to die from it. On average, the U.S. suffers a mass …
“We” Haven’t Lost Sight of Environmental Responsibility
Depends on what is meant by “we.” Most people are completely aware that what we’re doing to our environment is creating huge damage to us as individuals. Corporate greed, on the other hand, which is completely out of control, is …
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Protecting the Amazon
From The Economist: Brazilian businesses rarely preach greenery. Yet last July, 20 months after Jair Bolsonaro was elected president, rampant deforestation in the Amazon roused 38 CEOs to speak up. Foreign investment was falling and trade talks were stalled. This …
A Troubled Future?
From this piece by CBS News: More frequent and intense global challenges — in the form of disease outbreaks, financial crises, or the negative effects of climate change or new technologies — are likely to stress already brittle systems of …
