This from 20th Century German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist Erich Fromm. A smart guy, to be sure, but to his point here, I’m with Socrates, who said famously, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” …
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Biden Should Pardon Steven Donziger, Incarcerated for Defending the People of Ecuador Against Chevron
Please see this, and donate if you care to. More details on his Wikipedia page. If I were to run out of gas, I’d rather push my car to the next gas station than fill it at Chevron.
Religion and Science
The quote here from 20th Century physicist/mathematician Paul Dirac reminds us of the hundreds of attempts to reconcile faith and reason, religion and science, call it what you will. This was the life’s work of Thomas Aquinas, btw, using nothing …
Foreign Aid
Apparently, some people are unaware that U.S. foreign aid is focused on maintaining freedom and stability around the world.
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Trump and Grocery Prices
Let’s face facts: Very few Trump supporters are going to throw tantrums when grocery prices fail to fall, or when any other campaign promise doesn’t come to fruition. That’s because the MAGA crowd loves Trump for his other “virtues,” e.g., …
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Woke
A reader by the name of Paul Maunder sent me this, and answers the question: “Thanks for the compliment.” Indeed, all decent people consider it a compliment to be thought of as “woke,” i.e., having a sensitive awareness of the …
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Our Secretary of Defense
As suggested at left, some of us are not too keen on what’s happening in Washington D.C. right now.
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Why Libertarianism Doesn’t Work
Earlier in my life I was a libertarian, a viewpoint that I maintained until I realized the truth in what Naomi Klein say at left. In the absence of government regulation, corporations, whose sole duty is to turn a profit …
American Oligarchy
There is no doubt that the United States is headed away from the most important experiment with democracy in the history of humankind, and its government of, by, and for the people. But what happens next? Does this country become …
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In America, Rule of Law Has Disintegrated
I would guess that the percentage of Americans who believe that our system of justice is broken runs north of 90%. But many people tie our system of justice to whatever political party happens to be in power at the …
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