Regarding the deluge of reports concerning the acceleration of climate change, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, and other forms of environmental collapse, Nick Young offers his comments at left. But did we have a choice when it came to organizing …
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How We Structured Our Society
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From Voltaire
I’m sure what Voltaire says here is true, but what’s the value in “raising oneself above the ideas of the time.” Right now, human civilization is tottering on the brink of world fascism and environmental collapse. We need real solutions …
Republicans: Will This Work?
The GOP is asking American voters to believe that “radical left Democrat extremists” are leading the country into socialism/communism. They’re hoping that this fear will outweigh the electorate’s understanding of the damage that Trump, with help of congressional Republicans, is …
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Do Oil Wells Dropped by Big Oil Represent an Investment Opportunity?
Two comments: 1) If you want to a part of the environmental collapse that is coming from our civilization’s continued reliance of fossil fuels, you’re morally defective. In the parlance of the common man, you’re an asshole. 2) If you …
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Teaching Math and Science Is Not Preaching
If you want to remain ignorant of science, that’s your choice. Homeschool your kids and teach them that rejecting Christ will send them to an eternity of torment in hell. You’ll need to start while their still young, while they’re …
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Let’s Deal with REAL Problems
One of the most pathetic themes in modern-day American life is the way we get so upset about things that have essentially zero bearing on the quality of our lives. Look, we do have real problems. Real problems: Environmental collapse, …
Ayn Rand Is No Longer a “Thing” — Here’s Why
A reader asks: Isn’t it time for the Libertarians to cast aside the whole myth of objectivism championed by Ayn Rand? She said we should be realists, so let’s be real and see her for who she really was … …
Problems and Solutions
This country has real problems–ones that actually exist. Here, I mean things like poverty, child hunger, environmental collapse, lousy education, and the absence of affordable healthcare. I tend to vote for the party that is at least attempting to deal …
We’re Running Out of Time
There really are threats to human civilization that seem to be mounting in intensity: • World fascism. (If it can happen in the U.S., it could conceivably happen anywhere.) • Environmental collapse. • Malicious use of AI. • Pandemics, as …
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Apathy Towards Politics
The United States still suffers from eligible voters who are unregistered and registered voters who do not show up at the polls. That said, these numbers are shrinking, now that there is so much at stake: an illegal and purposeless …
