I'm not happy with my personal physical state. I'm not happy with the state of The Union. I'm not happy with the state of human development. Not happy with the state of the environment. There just don't seem to be many things I am happy …
read moreExponential Ignorance is one of the biggest problems facing mankind in our modern age.
In the old days (before radio, TV and the Internet), people shared ideas with relatively limited groups of people. The number of individuals one could influence were only a tiny fraction …
read moreI have only now, in the evening of my life, come to understand that civilized society is a dream, not a reality.
Day after day the paint peels a little more off the facade of my world. The civilized world. The 'First World'. As a species, we homo sapiens had …
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Rush 2112 album cover.
We all watch the world evolving from one where individuality and self-reliance was highly valued to one where social saturation and centralized everything is the norm. If knowledge is power (it is), then more and more power is concentrated …
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There is an attitude that permeates our culture these days. I know you've felt it, it's impossible to ignore.
It's "me first" and "winning is everything" with a strong dose of "make the money now, worry about the consequences later" tossed …
read moreApprehensive. A past-participle of apprehend. (A participle is verb that can do the work of an adjective, like 'baked' in "baked beans".)
Apprehend comes from the Latin word apprehendere meaning, "take hold of, grasp" In essence, when you've taken hold of something mentally, or if it …
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Your world is not my world,
Is not his world, is not her world.
Our world is a mixed world,
Made of their world plus yours.
Eight Billion Worlds.
There are eight billion worlds,
Each one the same, with nothing in common,
Each knowing the other but not the same …
I want to talk about truth. ("Oh boy, here he goes . . . ")
You might be inclined to think the definition of truth is pretty well settled. A lot of people believe that, and for a lot of those people, there's no need to even talk about what truth is. So I'm …
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