Barbie and Bratz: Wars over defining girlhood

The subject on which I am writing may seem silly at surface, but it has serious implications. Often the children's movies are seen as trivial, but many times the message that is contained in them not only reaches the children but becomes formative to their personal...

The Palin Principle: Bible Trumps Constitution

"If people like Sarah Palin wish to argue that the nation ought to follow a course that places religion squarely into the law making process, I suppose that is their right. "However, the continuous effort by Palin and friends to pervert the true history of the nation and...

Corporate state vs. free markets: Why Bush economics failed

Australian business commentator Ben Power (http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2895039.htm) has written an analysis of differences between pro-market and pro-business. One of his assertions is that pro-business does not necessarily mean pro-market, and that there...

Yugoslavia and Political Correctness

Tito's Yugoslavia was widely regarded as the best country in the Communist bloc. With a standard of living sufficient for it to be included in Organization of Economically Developed Countries, an infrastructure adequate for it to host Olympic Games, universal high-quality...

Thinking and Feeling

Here once again we are seeing a non-valued duality that some people want to proclaim as valued. There are rationalists who see feeling as an inferior function or mental illness; there also are people who equate rationality with coldness, dryness and nastiness that are not...

Art and Business

In matter of art and business, we likewise are seeing a non-valued duality interacting in any number of ways. Both endeavors have produced much of what is known now as the Western civilization, as they did in other societies such as China, India and Middle East. The relations...

Male and Female

The errors involved in this matter are age-long. There are many who believe such things as that men are of God and women of Satan, that women are amoral or evil, or that women are meant to be subservient to men. There are others who believe that men are abusers, that male...

Individual and Humanity

It is likewise rightful to recognize within each person the orientation toward self and orientation toward humanity. Each human being exists both as self and as part of humanity; and while some philosophies, such as the capitalistic portrayal of human being as possessing...

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 –...

Hydrogen Transmission Network: Clean-energy, clean-water solution

Australian scientist and engineer Arindam Banerjee has invented a clean energy solution that, besides solving global warming, also stands to solve freshwater depletion, deliver convenient round-the-clock water and energy, and realize vast economic and technological...