Immediately after my first business meeting in Paris, I spent some time walking around the City of Lights, trying not to be too conspicuous as the dreaded American tourist. It wasn’t long before I came across a McDonalds, which, I …
Category: Sustainability
Saving Humankind’s Home Planet
Re: the meme here, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said, “If we can explore colonizing Mars because we’ve ruined Earth, we can certainly fix Earth.” The man has a point here. What we need is the political will to put …
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“False Information”
When George Bernard Shaw wrote these words, “false knowledge,” hadn’t yet become an entire industry. Now, there are “news” organizations that have convinced their viewers that the 2020 election was rigged, that COVID-19 was a government plot to cripple the …
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Wealth Tax
I believe what the people are talking about in this meme is the top marginal income tax rates. Obviously, it would be good if there were no loopholes by which our top earners could avoid income tax, but what we …
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Living as Brothers
I would love to cite evidence that we’re on the way to “living together as brothers” rather than “perishing together as fools,” but I struggle to find it. I see too much (and perhaps an irreversible amount of) greed, tribalism, …
Philosophy Isn’t What it Once Was
I studied philosophy for a few years as a younger man, and I recall a graduate course on metaphysics, delivered by Henry B. Veatch (pictured), one of the most widely published and decorated American philosophers of his time (the mid/late …
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Some of America’s More Conservative “Think Tanks”
The clever meme here depicts a harsh reality of life in the U.S. There are groups, heavily funded by billionaires, whose aims are to convince congress to dismantle all aspects of the federal government that serve the common American. I’m …
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Why We Do Good
FWIW, I agree with the author of the meme here. The reason most of us refrain from committing harmful acts isn’t that we think we’ll be rewarded by some sort of force that pervades the universe. Nor is our motive …
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The Meaning of Your Life
Everything’s true here except the conclusion. You are anything but irrelevant. Let’s go with Gandhi on this one: “Whatever you do in life will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it because you can’t know. You …
Changing Our Diets
From magician and actor Penn Jillette: For (millions of) years our biggest problems were too few calories, too little information. For about 50 years our biggest problem has been too many calories, too much information. We have to adjust, and …
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