Trump adviser Stephen Miller said: “Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots.” Is this really what we want? Wouldn’t we rather that our children be taught the unvarnished truth about the United States …
Tag: the U.S. Constitution
Is Human Consciousness on the Rise?
As suggested in the meme here, does a mechanism exist that enables “a higher consciousness of people to fill the Earth?” Though this might sound like science fiction, such a thing must exist, otherwise there would be no way to …
Is Human Civilization Reversing Course?
Errr…no. This has been a weird little perturbation in the political scene, much like the witch trials in 1692; the phenomenon came and went, and a year later, most people of that place and time couldn’t even explain how it …
Tagged with: civil rights, environmentalism, gay marriage, Magna Carta, the abolition of slavery, the Age of Reason, the end of legal segregation, The Enlightenment, the feminist movement/gender equality, the French Revolution, the Renaissance, the U.S. Constitution, women's suffrage, workers' rights
Is Environmentalism a Fad?
As I wrote the other day, the concept of environmentalism in Western culture (or at least any real popularizing of the idea) is almost brand new. It dates to the mid-20th Century, and can be said to have begun with …
