American culture has always had its extreme fads, like flagpole-sitting or goldfish-eating; the pic here featuring “extreme tree trimming” from the 1880s is an example. That’s hilarious, IMO. But these are curiosities. On a far broader scale, we’re starting to see the …
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Why Involve Yourself in Politics?
The video here is a joke, and the audience clearly gets the humor, yet this is a conversation that I had almost verbatim with my apolitical son very recently. I was trying to inspire him to become more engaged, and I started …
Predicting Our Civilization’s Future
David Benatar, a self-described “anti-natalist” philosopher, believes that life is so bad, so painful, that human beings should stop having children for reasons of compassion. From this article: “While good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, …
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Why Did the TV Networks Do Such a Terrible Job Reporting On Climate Change Last Year?
Media coverage of climate change is light, uninformative, and declining in scope–just as its impact in terms of extreme weather events is going through the roof. From this article by Media Matters for America:
It’s Fashionable To Hate Government, But…
Here’s a good article for those interested in global climate change and the role of government in our lives. Journalist Christian Parenti points out that private sector interests alone will do very poorly in dealing with the enormity of the …
