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Dear Tax-Haters: It’s Not Really Your Money

Posted on November 17, 2010 by philosophical Ron

Taxes are the price we pay for living in an advanced economy that allows us to earn the money to support our highly-refined lifestyles. Continue reading →

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Arguing About Morality is like, so Useless …

Posted on August 10, 2010 by philosophical Ron

Various threads on Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish over the last month or two, and the much-quoted opinion of Judge Vaughn Walker in the California gay marriage case, are calling me to put on my philosophical hat, to set out some … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Next Revolution

Posted on June 1, 2010 by philosophical Ron

The basic idea is that there is no one factor … to explain human behaviors. There is, however, an inter-related set of four aspects of basic social science – psychology, philosophy, politics and economics, using a … set of re-definitions I have provided for these sciences – which do operate simultaneously in all halfway normal persons. To the extent that we can get information on the thoughts and actions of any person or persons, we can explain 99% of their behavior with these four inter-related, simultaneous social sciences.
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The Experience of History in the 21st Century: You’re in the Omelet

Posted on May 31, 2010 by philosophical Ron

Congratulations — we’ve made it deep into the world of the 21st Century of the Christian Era. The human population keeps growing in numbers, and it also keeps growing, as far as we can tell, in complexity: new subcultures, new … Continue reading →

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