Meet the Enemy Darwin’s theory of evolution clinched it: We humans evolved just like and along with ants and ant-eaters,…
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Anthropology, The Holistic Science
/ August 14, 2022But science often does that. Always has. Today’s science demands that we face up to wholeness and interconnection just as…
Our Pandemic Year: Trump & The Virus II, An Island View.
/ May 23, 2021Part II: Lessons to Take To Heart Lesson 1, We’re All In This Together We live on Vancouver Island, off the southern…
Our Pandemic Year:
/ April 26, 2021Trump & The Virus, An Island View. Part I: “We’re All In It Together Early Spring, 2021. Like each of…
What is Human Nature? What is Culture? Why Politics?
/ June 19, 2019What is human nature? Someone lies or steals because they can; another schemes to get ahead no matter who else gets…
American Decline, Part V: Who’s Responsible?
/ April 14, 2019I began the previous post with a quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945), the German Christian theologian and anti-Nazi dissident, who…
America’s Decline, Part IV: Ideas & Politics
/ February 16, 2019In this well-known acid-tongued quote Dietrich Bonhoeffer says that stupidity can be more dangerous than malice or evil. But scanning…
America’s Decline, Part III: Blame, Responsibility & Cognitive Dissonance
/ January 28, 2019The last couple of posts looked at some indicators and aspects of Americans’ crumbling quality of life. But it’s one…
Protected: America’s Negative Cultural Drift, Part II
/ December 8, 2018There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
America’s Decline, Part I: “Too Damn Much Democracy”
/ November 16, 2018Part I: America’s Negative Cultural Drift Historically Americans think of themselves as strong, optimistic, resilient people, and America as…