As anyone could have predicted, there is a huge correlation between poor education/ignorance, moral poverty, and incarceration levels.
Category: Sustainability
Power Enables Us to Help Others
Power is the ability to do good things for others. – Leo Tolstoy True power is not about control or status. It is about using what you have to help others grow, heal, or feel supported. Tolstoy reminds us that …
Moral Philosophy
Moral philosopher Peter Singer is probably best known as an animal rights advocate, and one who’s been at it for a very long time. I was reading his books when I was in college in the 1970s. Turns out he’s …
On the Passing of Grateful Dead Co-founder Bob Weir
A reader notes: I’d like to think virtually no musician has lived a better life than Bob Weir. More than 60 years touring and doing what he loved. We should all strive for that much joy in our lives. This …
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We Didn’t Listen
Humankind’s great minds, starting with the ancient Greek philosophers, and leading all the way up to our modern-day thinkers, have been warning us of the consequences we’d face for our ignorance and hate.
Where Is All This Meat Coming From?
Are you serious? Why do you think we’re destroying the Amazon rainforest, other than to make more room for beef cattle? We’re wrecking our planet to make McDonald’s rich beyond belief. The only larger contributor to environmental collapse is the …
Thrift Stores
I love supporting the thrift store economy, in both donations and purchases. I had six suits and about 80 ties at one point; now I have one suit and perhaps four ties. Somewhere around here, there are people who now …
Ayn Rand Was Once “A Thing”
Growing up in the 60s and early 70s, I was one of millions of young people who read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and found them both extremely well-written and philosophically compelling. But then, as we aged, virtually …
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Rabid Consumerism
There have been many attempts to inform our society that consumerism is a choice, but so is a more minimalist lifestyle. “The Story of Stuff,” founded by environmentalist Annie Leonard, is perhaps the best example. I once met Annie at …
The United States Is Going to “Run” Venezuela
Pete Buttigieg, always on point, brings clarity to the matter. At home, we have tax cuts for billionaires while children starve, stagnant wages for the working class, homeless veterans, the National Guard in our streets in an effort to solve …
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