I agree that the Three Fascisms were totalizing systems as was the USSR. Stalin was bad news all round--ruthless, dictatorial, paranoid, etc. but that...
Yes, Nazi ideology, built on top of resentments over WWI, the Versailles treaty, and a decade of weak government and economic problems during the Weim...
A day-by-day account doesn't appeal to me, but if you like it, great. Will it cover both the war in Asia as well as the war in Europe? The World War -...
It is in the national anthem -- "does that star-spangled banner yet wave". It's a reference to the white stars/blue field on the US flag. The author, ...
I know what "spangled" means, EXACTLY, but to what degraded use it is being put by the leaking sewer pipe of corroding riff raff, I couldn't say. What...
Robotics have come a long ways, but I should note that the 2 or 3 SCOTUSBOTS are not AI robots. They run on a processor used to operate robot vacuum c...
Sir: (I'm presuming) You do not understand the function of threads such as the "Israel killing Civilians in Gaza and the West Bank". "Philosophical di...
NPR does do that a lot. So does the New York Times and some other publications. Too often the background reporting consists of interviews with advocac...
All that and more! There are solutions to our problems at hand, but we ourselves--our inability to plan and act together for the long-run (a century a...
Yes, indeed. @"Hanover"'s definition applies to governmental behavior. I'd add application to employer behavior. The balance between the prerogatives ...
Governments are often enough the purveyors of authoritarian enforcement, but I would include employers as a category. The workplace is where most peop...
I voted yes, but the entire government apparatus, corporate establishment, and social patterns is by no means uniformly authoritarian. Further, it is ...
That's the miracle in it! Following the Big Bang, the particles formed into atoms and molecules, made stars that later on exploded, creating still mor...
The natural systems that brought about our reality were not, in my opinion, intelligent. Inordinately complex, absolutely. We rate our intelligence as...
We have to learn it ourselves -- whether somebody teaches us or whether we use trial and error. The thing is, whatever we learn, we have to fold it in...
Your are right on target. There is this very extensive discourse aimed at convincing us that we are free. We are free, for example, to buy whatever we...
I think of ethics as more secular and morals more religious. I can ethically have consensual sex with another man where I may not be able to do so mor...
Has the individual ever been free? We've been living in ever-growing communities for the last 12,000 years, but even as hunter-gatherers individuals w...
Less than a contractual relationship the defining characteristic of capitalism is the accumulation of profit at the expense of the workers who produce...
For which we can be exceedingly grateful. Imagine being aware of everything the CNS was doing. You'd have no time to look at porn! Or consider the 'en...
The survivors of the Yucatan Impact are birds, not humans, We descend from mammals that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs and survived the catas...
Factoid: Humans are uniquely allergic to poison ivy. Many birds prefer poison ivy berries. "Wild turkeys, crows, and bobwhite quail are known to feed ...
People should be respect established occupancy. BLM has been occupied by a branch of the United States Government for 75 years--long enough to establi...
You assume correctly. It's part of the Department of the Interior. Supposing that Black Lives Matter might be asked to alter the moon's orbit is more ...
I like that GOATOVER is already suffering an arrow of outrageous fortune lodged in his side. Now to get the goat into a sling GOATOVER is putting a lo...
Democrats have donkeys; republicans have elephants (big fat bitter & resentful bellowing lummoxes); Ross Perot had a big sucking sound; Hanover? A cud...
"Wisdom" and "wise" may be the sort of word that seems to be meaningful but is very difficult to qualify or quantify, and is, in general, non-inferent...
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Hmmm, haven't looked at a National Geographic in decades. No. The idea that poor people can be happy comes from experience -- my own experience and ob...
Goodness gracious! Almost 30 years since Ross got his charts out and cited that 'giant sucking sound' from 'South of the Border, Down Mexico Way'. Abo...
There are substantial overhead costs to delivering welfare benefits, just as there are substantial overhead costs in delivering health care, paid for ...
I see how it looked like an afterthought. Gay liberation, as it manifested itself in 1969 and into the next decade, was a big deal to me. It is not no...
I don't think it's a conspiracy either. It's just business as usual. Aka, "If it bleeds it leads." Totally agree. We enjoy watching disasters that don...
The corporo-technik elite is more likely to lull you with hope and happy talk rather than despair. Hopelessness and despair are not useful corporate v...
You can rest assured that the technocratic / corporate elite is, or would like to control and manipulate the masses for purposes of enhancing their re...
It should surprise you. In 2019 29% of students aged 25 to 29 completed a BA degree. The percentage of the population 25 years and older holding at le...
Well, we could be -- depending on how you define "our culture" or "my culture". I'd say that the average person who completes high school this year is...
You are, actually, probably right. On the face of it, money likely does make people happier. Even a $1,000 emergency fund gives people more security t...
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