The idiot’s t-shirt shown here raises the question: How do you define the word “support?” In a certain sense, I support all countries, insofar as the people living in each deserve to live freely. As an American, I support the …
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Presenting Sir David Attenborough
An international hero. I met a guy earlier today, and we were discussing why human civilization is losing the battle against environmental collapse. The answer, obviously, is that there are too few David Attenboroughs and too much greed, ignorance, indifference, …
The Future Isn’t Always an Extrapolation of the Past
If the future looks like the past, it’s very clear that our legacy for generations to come will feature overwhelming amounts of authoritarianism, greed, ignorance, racism, environmental collapse, perhaps along with nuclear conflagration. Fortunately, as some brilliant mind put forward, …
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No Intelligent Species Would …..
Several people commented on the meme here to the effect that perhaps we’re not really intelligent. I offer this: Humankind is plenty intelligent, but we have other characteristics that impede our capacity to use this intelligence to our benefit. Greed, …
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, …
“Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.” – Freya Stark, explorer and writer (1893-1993)
Imagine that a survey had been taken annually since the inception of the nation, in which 1000 randomly chosen Americans were asked if they agreed or disagreed with Melville’s statement here. I’m guessing that a large majority would have agreed …
Yes, the U.S. Is In a Terrible Place Right Now, But There Is Hope
It would be easy to look at the United States right now, and conclude that all the stupidity, greed, selfishness, dishonesty, corruption and other forms of criminality that underpin our federal government and its state-run “news” agency are happening equally …
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More on Sustainability and Political Philosophy
In response to my piece on Sustainability and Political Philosophy, a reader asked me if I’d comment on greed and where it comes from. I would say that our society over the last 75 years or so has become increasingly tuned …
Corporate Role Models in Sustainability — Coming Soon
It’s the birthday of the British novelist Kingsley Amis who wrote: “If you can’t annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.” I’m wondering how many of us read his novella Lucky Jim in our English classes when we were young; …
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Why Antagonism Dominates Our Civilization
I’ve known Dan Conine for a couple of years now, and he never ceases to amaze me with his insight as a political philosopher and social critic. Here, he writes: We have got to….think about the general configuration of humanity. …
