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The Verifiably Impossible
Day by day I find that our biggest problem as humanity is the disconnect between experience and the value we accord the verifiably impossible (see post). It’s funny that the biggest problem in creating a so-called better world – that … Continue reading
Posted in Quick Ideas
Tagged better world, causality, cause and effect, consequences, countries, dialectics, empiricism, ethics, history, Ideas, impossible, institutions, Kant, logical positivism, nations, notions, noumena, politics, power, state, wealth
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Bigger Houses
I read this on a wall at a good friend’s family home: “We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgements; more experts but more problems; more medicines, but less … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes
Tagged accomplishments, character, common sense, communication, computers, concepts, culture, dalai lama, digestion, family, fast food, greed, health, houses, hunger, judgement, knowledge, love, medicine, modern, money, neighbor, norms, notions, quote, real estate, relationships, self-knowledge, speed, technology, trash, travel, understanding, waste, wealth
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The Future of the American Dream
This is an article I just read in The Nation which reflects many of the concerns and values in The Age of Humanity and proposes a socio-economic approach to kick America forward. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090525/greider
Posted in Current Events
Tagged american dream, article, community, decision, direct democracy, direction, economics, elite, family, future, happiness, journalism, liberty, life, obama, participation, policy, politics, poor, recession, sacrifice, segregation, socio-economic, The Nation, trade-off, wealth, wealthy
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