Reposted from The Nation. Jonathan Schell Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path. Does the American leadership today imagine that the people […]
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We each view reality from our own unique perspective, only a community of minds can show us the truth.
A Moral Code for a Finite World
Today we follow yesterday’s article The Tragedy of the Commons—Revisted with a more recent article by Hershel Elliot. This one is reposted from CAIR. Herschel Elliott & Richard D. Lamm […]
Continue readingThe Tragedy of the Commons – Revisited
Kristian Mandrup writes: Hardin’s thought experiment, The Tragedy of the Commons, uses an imaginary commons to demonstrates the futility—the absurdity—of much traditional ethical thinking. The sad fate of the imaginary […]
Continue readingThe Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight
As the readers of this website know, modern humanity is threatened by the fossil fuel depletion crisis. We are already in the final decades of the “modern industrial” era. This morning’s article is reposted […]
Continue readingThe Native Truth
Forwarded by Marguerite Hampton. Terri Jean One of the greatest events in human rights history occurred when a man stood alone, challenging the United States government and its constitution, demanding […]
Continue readingUnderstanding the Accelerating Rate of Change
Reposted from the KurzweilAI Network. Originally published in Perspectives on Business Innovation. We’re entering an age of acceleration. The models underlying society at every level, which are largely based on a linear […]
Continue readingLiving Systems, the Internet and the Human Future
The following talk, reposted from the Life Web, was presented in May of 2000 at the Planetwork, Global Ecology and Information Technology conference held at the San Francisco Presidio. Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D. […]
Continue readingThe Machiavellian Side to Primates!
The following article is another from the reading list selected by Don Steehler. Richard Effland Before the surge of field studies in the 1950s and 1960s, researchers had little appreciation for […]
Continue readingWhy Do Some Societies Make Disastrous Decisions?
Reposted from EDGE. At the end of March, Jared Diamond was in New York to receive THE LEWIS THOMAS PRIZE Honoring the Scientist as Poet. The prize was presented to […]
Continue readingMachiavellian Realism and U.S. Policy
The following 1991 article is another from the reading list selected by Don Steehler to aid his fellow humans in understanding our present human crisis. Howard Zinn While teaching courses in […]
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