For the sake of conversation, let’s say the human brain is like an automobile, and there are three basic models: the Corvette, the Silverado, or the amphibious Max IV 6-wheeler ATV. You get to choose. The Corvette is the sexiest, the social elite; as a mind, it’s the equivalent of, say, Carrie Fisher, easily one of … [Read more…]
Design your criminal: should incarceration generate criminal rehabilitation, or dehabilitation? What does justice mean if it doesn’t make us safer?
The aids impact went far beyond the victims, because it changed the rest of us and — perhaps — created a more tolerant and compassionate world.
Society vs humanity: in contrast to the community, the society is self-serving and exclusive, and therefore anti-humane.
Community vs Society: we tend to interchange the two words, but they are different: inclusive vs exclusive, tolerance vs intolerance.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Progress is a new concept in human development. And that means we have to rethink our approaches to change, and the rate of change.
Hugh Thompson’s moral courage in protecting civilians from Task Force Barker in the My Lai Massacre changed the practice of warfare, and our view of war.
Child’s play is child’s work, and Hide & Seek is not the innocent game it seems. Like so much of life, it is really a game of survival, of life and death.
I remember overhearing a man talking about how hard he was working to ensure that his lawn was nothing but uniformly green St. Augustine grass, thick, neat edgings, and without crab or monkey grass.
To my mind, yards like that look a bit sterile.
My wife is a few years younger than I am, and I think when I met her she was a bit impressed with me. She actually thought that I knew stuff, maybe I even had some wisdom. She quickly disabused herself of that opinion, of course. Familiarity, contempt, you know the routine. But it got … [Read more…]