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, [...]
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 [...]
Have you ever wondered why we as a people are so unresponsive to the environmental crisis? Given the magnitude of the dangers, it seems counter-intuitive that most people would be so blasé. Perhaps the key to understanding this is to focus less on what people say they think and more on the constructs that underlie [...]
Bob Dylan correctly anticipated the pulse of the 60’s when he titled his epic 1964 album, The Times They Are A-Changin’. Those times were changing. But what about now? Are our times changing? I think so, and I have a suggestion about what is changing.
Our “defaults” are changing.
In order to explain I will need [...]
