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Tag Archives: progress
The Concerns of a Generation
I have been writing the script for the documentary, and was thinking about what some of our modern concerns are. Some are obvious – climate change, globalization, overpopulation, poverty, hunger. The energy crisis. Some are psychological – detachment from nature, from … Continue reading
Posted in Documentary Ideas
Tagged cities, civilization, climate change, concerns, earth, earth at night, generation, humanity, Ideas, modern, progress
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Definitions and Clarity
Posted really quickly…. Will edit soon. When I was writing the post, ‘Atheism – A Defense Part 1.‘ I did not clearly explain what I meant to explain… at all. I reread the post and thought a couple of things … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged atheism, clarity, confusion, defense, explanation, forward, progress, questions, religion, spiritual
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Convention
Each day there are more people on this Earth. Carbon dioxide levels continue to rise to what climatologists estimate may be the highest in millions of years. At the same time, there are some that insist vehemently that our way … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged 1984, attitude, capitalism, censorship, choice, climate change, convention, decision, doublespeak, earth, fate, George Orwell, global warming, green, justice, logic, media, new, norms, orthodoxy, possibility, poverty, prejudice, progress, propoganda, psychology, record heat, research, slogan, temperature, thought, truth, Wittgenstein, work
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The Age of Humanity
“You were sick, but now you’re well, and there’s work to do” – Kilgore Trout Salaam! A new regime appears! It surfaces from the wasteland of the previous power, feeding and thriving on the toxicity deposited by the old authority. … Continue reading
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Tagged Active Philosophy, art, capitalism, consumption, counterculture, cross, culture, dancing, death, destiny, economics, flag, freedom, genocide, hippies, humanity, hysteria, individuality, institutions, Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonegut, life, logic, love, market, meaning, modernism, money, Music, new regime, New Sincerity, nihilism, postmodernism, private property, progress, revolution, science, society, spirit, suffering, the soul, threefold path, trade, universe, woodie gutherie, work, Zen
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Actually, let’s not start from scratch.
This is a follow up to the post, “We are of one essence.” In this post I put the sentence, “In our previous debate, we essentially posit that in order for humanity to improve its condition we need to reduce … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged america, american, beginning, borders, capitalism, change, complex, drones, essence, foreign, forward, humanity, increment, industrial, international, Iran, killing, law, military, murder, new, obama, policy, prayer, progress, scratch, serenity, spirit, start, steps, war, way, we
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