Yes, I realize it meant change in the balance of power. Just can't resist some fun with words. What I meant was that, atm, it's all up in the air; we ...
People have different ideas of what constitutes science and of how it is practiced. I think all intelligent living things practice science: observe, e...
You're right. I don't think science has any part in it. We understood sickness and health, happiness and sorrow, love and hate, right and wrong long b...
Sure. Language may be be variable, malleable, open to interpretation and tricky, but there are some words we all understand through common human exper...
They're secondary game-pieces, deluded by false promises of security, while men, deluded by false promises of autonomy are the primary game pieces. Ne...
He, like Mills, is a little out of date, Nietzsche, more out of tune - on every subject, with any mainstream thought - each formed by a different time...
Agree that it's a good idea to sell out Ukraine? If by 'good', you mean idiotic, self-destructive and downright disastrous - sure. So now can you stop...
The current US administration is nothing remotely like the "champion of the free world" and has no intention of saving any country from any aggressor;...
Have you read Moorcock's novel Dancers at the End of Time? But meanwhile, the peasants are still needed to do all that buying and consuming, tax-, ren...
If they don't stand up to Russia now, and exhaust its military and economic capability, all of Europe will be salami-sliced. More quickly, if Russia i...
The US and NATO are separate entities. Why do you think the US wars of aggression required a coalition of consenting nations? Only four of the thirty-...
Mill, like much of the Enlightenment, was no doubt influenced by the loosening of the Christian religious stranglehold over European thought and the e...
The present US government wouldn't recognize morality if it was rotting chained upside-down in its dungeon. None of this BS is about morality. Poor li...
An increasing number, apparently. And the arch-apologist broadcaster spins it as a 'far left' conspiracy, 'far left', in his case, meaning any organiz...
All societies do have standards and norms, moral precepts and laws, at any given time, for whatever length of time. This was never a mystery. It's not...
I see that evaluation - whatever you mean that in regard to human behaviour - is very important to you. I don't quite understand why. In order to 'eva...
And if normal people cannot identify with pathologically destructive people? I doubt pathologically or calculatedly destructive people identify with t...
Cut it open, take out the bad bits, stitch it up, bandage it and collect a fee. Many doctors are naturally empathic - which is a factor in their choic...
Evaluation is intellectual - where it's applicable at all. What's the standard against which you evaluate another person's behaviour? Your own, or the...
No, it doesn't. You might have an idea how they could achieve their need by more effective or socially approved methods. Agreement is intellectual; it...
That goes no way toward explaining the white civil rights activists or any of the outreach programs and social volunteering, or animal rescue and prot...
I'm not sure about that distinction. One can understand things from a purely academic or clinical position, that requires no empathy. Once you recogni...
Empathy is, essentially, sharing: the ability to recognize oneself in another and thus to understand and sympathize with their feelings, their attitud...
It seems not to suit everyone. Including myself: I don't eat meat, but I cook with eggs (they come from the free-range hens next door) and some cheese...
Epicurus nailed it 2400 years ago, much more succinctly. Be healthy in body, occupy your your mind, limit your desires, live modestly; have meaningful...
First: things do not govern themselves; they are governed, forced or neglected by human agencies. Second: what the hell is corporate syndicalism? I ha...
Yes, there is a lot of good, progressive stuff on You Tube. Robert Reich, a brilliant economist, The Meidas Touch network, Democracy Now some good ser...
Because he never got over Obama getting one. I think he wants two, by whatever means, just to one-up Obama. And here's more of it, coming to a provinc...
I'm not sure that's a larger or even separate crisis. Lack of critical awareness has ever been with us: witness the crusades, the hundred years' war o...
Yes, and as soon as that curtain came down, all the vultures who had been waiting for a chance to exploit those countries came flapping in. They bough...
Orban's stance is not so puzzling when you realize that he, too, is a populist dictator wannabe (Hungarians have been calling him Victator for years),...
Ours, too, though it's under a lot financial pressure. The US one suffers greatly from state governments that have been dressing right forver. There w...
And, for heaven's sake, listen to public television and radio! Their whole purpose is to educate the public about issues that affect the public. Suppo...
Part of it is their indifference - some of which comes from past disappointment. Part of it is that representatives are not readily accessible in pers...
Right on, Brother Bear! The news makes the running of our national and provincial affairs sound boring - in good times. In good times, too, when we ha...
Actually, the Biden administration http://accomplished quite a lot for the people.* Remember, they came in after a disastrous Trump-administered pande...
Put Canada first - not Canadians. Yup, MAGA Jr. It means whatever he says it does. Tax cuts for the rich owner class, which in practice means curtaili...
All this right-wing upsurge will certainly make it difficult for Europe to muster international solidarity... or get its act together in any sense. I ...
With a great deal of perspicacity, tact and healthy by-pass-the-US commerce. The governments of Cape Verde, Seychelles, and South Africa; Taiwan, Japa...
Not have to, and I wish we could all see that resistance is imperative. But some of the elements have been here for some time already. There is a bett...
Not really. You may be able to adjust it, given a favourable environment. To a large extent, yes. See 1. It's the same thing. Circumstances permitting...
Raging Trump is also stopping aid to other countries that will soon be up for grabs, including several that will also expand as bases for anti-America...
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