WHY WE ARE WORRIED- Without Numbers Or Big Words

WHAT’S THIS?

We are here to have a general discussion about acute transformations. (more…)

WHAT WOULDN’T YOU DO? Our Obligation to Prevent the Theft of Power

You wouldn’t throw yourself out in front of a car to keep yourself from getting hurt, would you?

Would you throw yourself out in front of a car to keep someone else from getting hurt? Your kids? My kids? Dick Cheney’s kids? (more…)

THERE ARE NO PRIVATE ACTS: Ethics Cannot Be “Personal Choice”

Private Moral Questions?

Some of us have the idea that ethical matters are personal. That it is a tenet of “freedom” and “liberty” and “democracy” (more…)

If You Want A Picture Of The Future: George Orwell

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face- forever.

Do you begin to see then, what kind of a world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. (more…)

Hypocrisy: Samir Amin

“The discourse of the powerful bemoaning unemployment and poverty -as if these phenomena were not the result of their policies- is pure hypocrisy.”

Samir Amin: Capitalism in the Age of Globalization. 1997, London: Zed Books
Amin is an economist of the South and an academic in the North. His perspective is significant.

No Apostle Will Look Out: Robert Pogue Harrison

“”The wasteland grows,” wrote Nietzche over a century ago, “Woe to him who harbors wastelands within.” But… such things are mirrors: if a monkey looks in no apostle will look out. (more…)

Standing Outside Of Ourselves: Susan Griffin

“There are many ways we have of standing outside of ourselves in ignorance. Those who have learned as children to become strangers to themselves (more…)