Ignorance has terrific value to the billionaire class. If you’re filthy rich, you really don’t want a nation full of people learning that pure market capitalism is, by its very nature, exploitative, or that the consumption of fossil fuels is …
Category: Sustainability
A Message to All
If the question at left were posed to me, I would respond: love one another. Below is the seal of the school I attended as a boy. The motto in ancient Greek, close to the bottom, is pronounced “fuh-LAY-ta a-LAY-loose,” …
Huge Corporations Are Slapping Their Customers in the Face
What do you notice about the shopping bag in the photo? It has no handles. That’s right, Albertson’s, with annual revenues of more than $83 billion, has decided to inconvenience its customers, forcing them to wrap both of their arms …
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The Course Toward Authoritarianism
What Krishnamurti says at left reminds us of the direction that essentially everything takes in human civilization. What once was pure eventually becomes adulterated and ultimately monetized. The most egregious example of this is how the wealthiest human beings on …
Plant-Based Meat Takes Unusual Marketing Tack
I encourage readers to check out this tongue-in-cheek ad for plant-based meat. There is a maxim in marketing warning against “promoting the enemy line,” this is so clever, I can see where it could be quite effective.
A Profile in Corporate Greed
I just met a woman who’s been a flight attendant for Delta Airlines since the early 1990s, who laments that her company has been ruined by corporate greed, which has trashed so many other things in our lives. As it …
Humanitarianism
The other day, someone asked me, “If you had to answer this question in only one word, what gives your life meaning?” I replied, “Helping.” Now, unlike Richard Branson, I’m not a billionaire, so my capacity in this arena is …
Re: Mocking Virtue, Was Plato “Woke?”
We all know we should treat others as we would like to be treated, regardless of the color of our skin, the size of our bank account, or our sexual orientation. Following the Golden Rule, in essence, is what we …
Why Write?
Here’s a short video that explains why we write. Like the farmer planting the seed, we do not know if it will grow into a life-giving plant, but we believe that it’s possible.
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Tolerance
If I were asked to explain the huge correlation between poorly educated people and Trump supporters, I’d point to the quote from Helen Keller at left.
