Destroying America
At left is a subject of intense debate, i.e., how did the United States come to find itself governed by “a conman with the IQ of a jar of mayonnaise?”
The common wisdom, and I can’t offer any real improvement on it, is the decline in the U.S. educational system.
I had a dear friend about 45 years ago who hailed from the Netherlands, a country in which every boy and girl, by the time they graduated from high school and went on to college:
• Was fluent in Dutch, German and English
• Read Plato, Aristotle, and Descartes
• Played the piano fairly well–at least the intermediate pieces, e.g., the waltzes, nocturnes and mazurkas of Chopin
That was almost half a century ago. Think of how much further we’ve fallen since.
Yes, Trump “blew up” our friendship with our neighbor to the north, but it seems that the Canadians are taking all this philosophically, which is typical of their demeanor.
Here’s something we see commonly on social media. Do you agree sir or madam, completely ignorant of basic biology though you may be, that there are only two genders?
The reader who supplied the meme here doesn’t know that I’m one of very few Americans between the ages of 15 and 90 who’s never spent a dime at Starbucks.
The United States federal government will soon abdicate its role in ensuring that all young Americans are academically prepared to be successful in their lives.
If you run a corporation and you have a penchant for criminal behavior, this is a great time to be alive.
FWIW, I boycott Amazon, etc. 365 days per year, year after year, because I don’t approve of how Bezos behaves on this planet, and in particular how he treats his employees.
The most amazing thing about Trump is his capacity to make (some) people believe that he cares about anything and anyone but himself.
The creator of the meme here has every right to his pessimism, and I’ll grant that there is a great deal of evidence that he’s correct, especially given what’s happening regarding the planet’s environment and the political scene here now in the United States.
Buckminster Fuller was a one-of-a-kind American intellectual: architect, engineer, and philosopher. As shown at left, he had what today might be considered something of a socialist, or perhaps Quaker or Buddhist perspective on life on planet Earth, urging us all to treat one another with equal importance, given that this is what’s necessary for us to create a sustainable world.
