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. [...]
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 [...]
I have a friend, a long-time environmentalist, who denies there are any problems in the environment. He says the problems are in humans, not the environment. It is an excellent point, and it leads me to realize we Americans are suffering from the effects of two pollutions—the pollution of the American [...]
To many people Obama represents hope for a better world. For others, the hope for a better world represented by Obama is a deception that masks a reluctance to face reality.
Let’s forget about Obama for a moment and look instead at the deeper contrast between the promise of hope and the disappointments of reality. Interestingly, [...]
“Change we can believe in” is a wonderful and effective phrase. In the giddy days before and after the election, the phrase seemed to promise that an Obama administration would bring needed change, steering our nation off the rutted road of corruption and driving it onto an environmentally friendly superhighway of wisdom. It all felt [...]
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 [...]
One of the life’s puzzles is how people can commit atrocities and think they are serving God. Surprisingly, the answer is not hard to come by. We just have to conceptually “reverse engineer” their mindset, moving back from their actions to the assumptions that give rise to them.
Unreflective people will have a hard [...]
