When was once, and where did their good moral judgement disappear to when something changed? Only, of course, nothing really changed. You always had t...
Only that there must are alternatives to capitalist, money-based economy and one of those needs to prevail before all that moral, logical, fair and de...
Neither. They belong to the Earth which sustains us all - unless we despoil it. The principle that works best is to take only what you need, replace o...
It will keep getting harder, as they take over more functions in every area. I don't knowingly seek interaction with a bot, but they intrude on my dai...
Of course there would. Biography is not art; it is reportage. Both have their place: one is creative, the other is informative. Painting would have be...
No. He was making a spectacle out of physical and mental illness. Why not? Because it debases the performer as well as the audience and every generati...
If someone, whether they're human or other, is polite to you, it's natural to be polite in return. Never feel like a jackass for being a nice person. ...
No silly, wasteful excess has surprised me since I first saw bottled water, imported from France (just before Europe made a major effort to clean up i...
Good reason to forbid birth-control! Oppressive governments and churches have always demanded more children than parents can support: they need the ex...
It wasn't about your view of the world. (I'm familiar with your history of good works and civic improvement.) But I did have a problem with Which soun...
I've been polite to computerized machines of every kind, from cash machines to credit card readers to my PC, since 1996, when I first got an internet ...
But that's not the present political divide, is it? There are no real conservatives in evidence now. (They exist and still hold the same values they d...
No more than the microscope slides, organs and bones I worked on in Pathology. The 'artist' didn't make a cow (These are art) ; he merely used her bod...
Of course. Not just the 'classics', in all cultures, all kinds of literature. I studied The Highwayman in Grade 8 and wasn't particularly impressed (t...
Of course there is. You can admire explosions, executions, arson; you can call anything done with skill an art-form, if you want to. To me, art is cre...
If it stopped at times tables and metric conversion, passages from Hamlet or The Highwayman, I'd have no problem with it, either. It's the loyalty oat...
You go to technical school for careers in technology - but only after having mastered the principles and operations of science and math through elemen...
It is because, these days, when anyone with a social media account sees a teapot, they feel compelled to make a tempest in it. There was a time when b...
I'm not that familiar with the current states (50?) of US education; I only see the odd articles like this; and on book-banning, forbidding the discus...
Huxley was. He had no excuse for misstating the role of past dictators. Education is about to be disembowelled by the Trump administration, as well as...
You wound me deeply! What's that to do with the historical inaccuracy of the Huxley quote? Every society uses state-of-the-art technology to organize ...
No. No. I mostly call myself a socialist, but I do support policies that improve people's lives and reduce injustice. Progress is temporary; everythin...
Yes, they are. Except Trump, whom the MAGA crowd adulates. If they don't agree with him, they shouldn't have voted for him. There is no all-inclusive ...
That's not the cause of war. No; it's mostly about wanting their stuff, their land, their water, their gold, their labour - or all of those. The bette...
Who came to that conclusion, on what basis? Heresy is a religious term, not a political one - no matter how badly people these days abuse the meaning ...
Not by anyone who is horrified by the brutality of the regime they support. 'Hate the sin, but love the sinner is for saints.' Those of us ordinary hu...
Certainly. Gullibility is a major human trait. Lots of reasons, both societal and individual. A common interest, such as rugby or landscape painting, ...
In fact, we seem to have some very notions of what things mean. BS You're born into a group whether you like it or not. Could nos survive without the ...
Much as I respect the Huxleys, that's total bilge. Had he never heard of Caligula or Ivan the Terrible? Which past? Which present? Which places? It's ...
Self-interest; interdependence. The instinct is not to conform but to co-operate. Words and actions are real enough. Anyone who screams at people inst...
*They bled the infants: blues on top, reds on the bottom.* Qualifications rarely came into monarch selection. In Hungary in the middle ages, the nobil...
A good - that is, well functioning - society does not require compliance and conformity, but rather a consensus on matters of common interest. Belongi...
But not of his regime: there was usually a recognized successor to carry on. Otherwise, bloody civil war. That, I'm afraid, is what will happen in the...
:rofl: Most people are tribal to some degree. The two-party system is American. Most other nations have several parties represented in their legislatu...
There wouldn't be. The problem emerges when you discover that not all people are Libertarian. If everyone were a dedicated environmentally conscientio...
No, it's been building for some time, but it may end with him or his successor. Understanding isn't difficult. Which 'we' is it that wants to, and is ...
Which is why the Trump miministration is in such a hurry to abolish science, education and free speech. Their aim is to reduce citizens to abjectly co...
Interaction, no problem; merging, huge problem. That's what happened to tribal cultures when they became - or were subsumed by - nations. It absolutel...
Yes, but most of the problems that need fixing were created by governments past, and/or a privileged class controlling some aspects of government. Wha...
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