Entries Tagged as 'morality'

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

What Might America’s Fathers Say Now?

Imagine that the ideals and assumptions of the Founding Fathers could somehow take bodily form and visit America. How might this entity feel seeing the Republic collapsing from greed-driven special interest politics?

I doubt the entity would be shocked. After all, the Founding Fathers had anticipated (and tried to prevent) just such a thing. [...]

Sunday, February 15th, 2009

Are We Finally Waking Up…or Merely Trading One Set of Illusions for Another?

Full Disclosure: I think something deep and primal has changed in our cognitive depths, but it will take some time for the dramatic consequences of this change to work their way to the surface.

Something is happening in our collective mind-space, but what is it? Is it a mass awakening…or merely the [...]

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

We Deserve A Better Class Of People To Be Our Upper Class

Someone has to say it.

We deserve a better class of people to be our upper class.

Everything in nature has a purpose—so much so that things that do not serve a purpose do not last. So what is the purpose of the upper class?

There was a time when it [...]

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Are Social Conservatives Just Like Progressives, Only More So?

Surely every progressive knows someone who spouts out odious and hateful political ideas but who is warm, friendly, and engaging in personal life.
Of course, there are also ornery people with enlightened politics. This raises the question of whether foul progressives and amiable regressives are two versions of the same thing…or whether the similarity between [...]