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For someone who wants to change the way that things are, the best path is a two-pronged approach. One part of it consists of deconstructing wrong attitudes and beliefs; the other part consists of leading by example to better outcomes. In the first case, the change is...
The behavior of both Israel and Europe after the Second World War has been the case of people learning their lesson too well. Prior to Second World War, the Jews were liberal pacifist internationalists who believed that if they contribute meaningfully to countries in which...
There are many people who believe economic growth and environmental sanity to be interests opposite of one another. That does not have to be the case. The environmental problems of today are not a result of economic growth or of technology. They are a result of wrong...
In 19th century England there was a group known as the Luddites who protested against technological development out of the belief that it would cost people their jobs. They have been proven wrong; technological development instead has created vast prosperity and better...
In his book "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore wrote that the people who weredenying the global warming in 1980s were going to be penitent later for whatthey had done. He made an error common to humanitarians: Of overestimating people's character. As it stands, these people...
Someone has asked me why scientists don't go on global warming denier forums: in his words, "What are they scared of?" The answer is that they are not scared. They don't go to these forums for the same reason that scientists aren't usually seen addressing ridiculous...
For 18 years, between 1988 and 2006, I lived in America. I've been to places large, places small and places midsize. I've been to cities and countryside; suburbs and uninhabited areas; places ranging in their ideology from far left to far right. I've come to the...
By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited"The Renaissance as a reactionary idea of progress The Renaissance ("rebirth" c. 1348-1648) evolved around a modernist and, therefore, reactionary idea of progress. This statement is not as nonsensical as...
There are many people in America who refer to some political stances as "un-American." The question becomes, by what standard? America is not a nation that was ever designed to live in a time warp. It is a nation that was intended to grow and develop continuously. And it has...
When I was in high school, I confronted my European History teacher with a statement made in a book by former US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski that at the beginning of 19th century China produced as much steel as did England. My teacher ridiculed the statement,...
What many people do not understand about clean energy is that it is a major economic boon to any country that would embrace it. The clean energy technologies are all brain-intensive, technology-intensive industries. Which means that they will directly create millions of jobs...
From the 1920's, certain individual families, have been controlling labs, college labs, with the military, and criminal units, and over 350 smaller crime families, foreign terrorists brought into each country,...
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