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To Help Your Climate Anxiety, Just Follow Paul
The Climate Emergency is here. Our wonderful capitalist civilization of convenient consumption has pushed too much pollution into our common atmosphere, and our earthly and watery environments are suffering as well. All around the world, smart and well-informed people are … Continue reading
To Build A Green Future: Implementing the Manifesto
Readers in America are unlikely to have heard about it, a very broad coalition calling itself the “Peoples of the Global South” has recently published a “Manifesto for an Ecosocial Energy Transiton from the Peoples of the South” that does … Continue reading
We Weren’t Dealing Well with Climate Emergency, Now Ukraine Emergency Makes It Worse
(Original post, dealing with climate emergency, was greatly revised to cover Ukraine invasion and re-published Feb. 28, 2022.) The climate emergency has the potential to destroy all our comforts and conveniences, and possibly our lives – and we aren’t dealing … Continue reading
Any Bravery Left, in our Sick New World? Updated June 2021
Let’s start with some context. The Great Depression of the 1930’s was a worldwide event, the economic effects reached at least 90% of the world’s population in significant ways. World War II, that followed (with the two events developing over … Continue reading
Posted in American Politics, corona virus, current world history, History, Uncategorized
Tagged corona virus, economic history, Economics, History, pandemic, politics, world history
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Trump: The Suicide of Civilization?
The election of Donald J. Trump to the American Presidency in 2016 represents a stunning victory of ignorance over intelligence, a triumph of fraudulent salesmanship over honest customer service. To the extent that Trump succeeds in boosting irreversible climate change … Continue reading
The Party of Selfishness and Destruction
The Party of Selfishness and Destruction This time, February of the 2015 Christian calendar, is a very, very dangerous time in the long, on-going story of human beings on earth. A political party which is devoted to the promotion and … Continue reading
The Foundations of Morality, And Where Plato Went Wrong
Author’s note: Readers not familiar with my work might wish to start with this article, the summary of my next book, which explains the basics of my thoughts on human beings and social sciences. Get yourself a snack and a … Continue reading
Syria As a Mirror to the World
The Syrian nation-state is riven by civil war (exacerbated by external forces), and seems in serious danger of collapse into a state of anarchy so great, that little or nothing of the lives of its inhabitants can saved from destruction, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Psychology, Social Sciences, Uncategorized
Tagged human futures, human prospects, perception, Syria, Syrian conflict, Syrian history, world history
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Advanced Theodicy for Practical People
Let’s see if we can’t get a little deeper into the question of theodicy, the question of why “god” allows evil to exist in the world. I am qualified to be your guide today, as I do consider myself to … Continue reading
Posted in History, Philosophy, Ron Brandstetter, Social Sciences, spiritual ron
Tagged evil, evil in the world, explanations of evil, God, human evil, moral ambiguity, science, spirit, spirituality, theodicy
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No, Public Managers Shouldn’t Get Business Manager Salaries
Author’s note: This article is a result of my recent foray into local activism, investigating the situation of my dysfunctional local agency that provides water to myself and thousands of my neighbors. The results of that investigation are a bit … Continue reading
Moments of History – Obama Should Know Better
President Obama, of all people, should know better than to repeat some speech writer’s prattle about the “few moments” of “history taking place.” Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged Egypt, Egyptian Revolution 2011, History, President Obama, speech writers
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