Intelligence vs. Stupidity: Creation vs. Destruction

In many places there is suspicion of intelligence, but not of stupidity. Intelligence is blamed for all sorts of problems that aren't its doing. If it had been up to intelligence, the world would have been running clean energy a long time ago. Instead there are also...

Feminism: Changing Direction

As in many other places, in America there is a separation between feminist women and all other women. The feminists have contempt for other women, seeing them as "breeders" and victims, whereas the other women see feminists as being mean-spirited and out of touch. There needs...

India's Gang Rape Protests: A Nation Maturing

The recent gang rape in India played the same role as did the beating of Rodney King in 1991. People have reacted with outrage to say that enough is enough. It is about time.40,000 women die each year in India from domestic violence. Hundreds of thousands of young girls...

Nature's True Lessons

Nature does not want destruction of humanity. Humanity is its greatest creation. It does however want people to learn their lesson. The point is not suffering to be inflicted on people; the point is getting people to realize what ways are rightful and what ways are wrong....

Hurricane Sandy and Sustainable Economics

The anti-environment people continue to claim that the environmentalists are enemies of technology and market economics. This lie must be addressed now. I am an environmentalist; but I am neither against technology nor against market economics. I've worked in technology...

Spiral, Spirituality and Social Progress

The Spiral The Eastern worldviews tend to describe the world in cyclical terms. Life and death, creation and destruction, summer and winter, and time itself, are conceived in circular manner in which life repeats continuously. In the West, we see a linear worldview, in...

Republican Class Wars

Over the last four years, Republicans have been accusing President Obama and Congressional Democrats of practicing class wars. I have not seen that; I do however know of a much uglier class war that has been fomented by Reagan Republicans for the last 30 years. That class...

Sulfuric Acid: The True Face of Islam

Attached is the photograph of a woman whose husband threw sulfuric acid on her face - before and after.The picture says more than I can in words, and I am an experienced writer. Here is a beautiful woman who was...

Al Gore and "Corporate Fascism"

During the 2000 election many on the Left claimed that there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush and that both were "corporate fascists." History has shown how wrong that stance was.Al Gore has spent the bulk of his political career pushing an issue that impugns...

Nature and Civilization

One manifest duality of life is nature and civilization. On this, there are two major schools of thought as to what it is that life is. One – seen in both capitalism and socialism - is concerned with adding the most to human-made world of civilization. The other –...

Nature and Civilization

One manifest duality of life is nature and civilization. On this, there are two major schools of thought as to what it is that life is. One – seen in both capitalism and socialism - is concerned with adding the most to human-made world of civilization. The other –...

Why America Should Have Time For Art

There are many people who justify an anti-artistic stance by saying that the modern world, or America, does not have time for the arts. This argument is completely bogus. If America has the time for right-wing talk shows, for political correctness, for tele-evangelists and...

IQCRACY: A Recipe for the Survival of Our Species

By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" The survival of the species depends on the establishment of an IQcracy, a Platonian Republic of the Intellect. At the top, serving as leaders and decision-makers, would be people with 150 IQ and higher. ...

prime values

Values that relate to human civilization: long-term benefit, sustainable, power to do good, practical, balance, holism, adaptable,.. Values that relate to work/play: inspiration, intuition, cooperation, collaboration, elegance, enthusiasm, learning, improving, mental agility,...

Olympia Snowe Republicans and a Biophilic Alliance

Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican Senator, has been making overtures toward the Democratic Party. This is reflective of a deeper social trend, and it is one that should be of interest to the Democrats. The Olympia Snowe Republicans were the yuppies and entrepreneurs of...

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