Imagine a world that was more like a martial arts dojo, less like an amusement park and trash dump. Personal integrity and earned respect would take the place of pretentious fantasy personalities empowered by equal rights. The novice multitudes in life would find themselves accountable to rather than the social equals of the fewer masters [...]
Posts Tagged ‘democracy’
Remaking modern society
Some metal message board member offers a challenge. Assumption: we often discuss politics and this domain has its own definite views. But we are taught democracy, capitalism and liberal civil/women’s rights together comprise “freedom,” and that anything but freedom is “bad.” So what can we do? We shrug and watch the ongoing travesty, certain we [...]
False dilemma emerges from Fort Hood
Why are we not surprised? Here is yet another case where only two sides are considered, neither of which is the actual cause of the problem. “Preliminary reports indicate there was a single shooter that was shot multiple times at the scene,” Cone said at a news conference. “However, he was not killed as previously [...]
Progressive society is no less barbaric
Thanks to accessible technology, which like so much in life is both blessing and curse, we have ready access to limitless amounts of information. By necessity, news items have an expiration time until they soon pass from the front page and eventually from our memory as consumers. This gives us a challenge for finding specific [...]
Universal morality on its death bed
The War on Inequality continues its slow march to the margins of credibility with this latest piece from the economics angle. “We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all,” Brian Griffiths, who was a special adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, said yesterday at [...]
Social networking sites can highlight social weaknesses
A while ago, I friended a family friend’s son on Facebook. Nice guy, always pretty quiet, but generally reasonable – at least, that’s how I had known him in the 90s, and I hadn’t really seen him much since. After friending him and his sister, I realized both were Ron Paul supporters. Sure, this could [...]
Welcome to Oligarchy
As predicted, it’s almost official now. Our merchant elites have their candidate. This has now been confirmed by Tom Barthold, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, in a hand-written note to a Republican Senator. And it’s not merely about jail time; it’s also about the $25,000 fine that could be levied [...]
Unhappy meal exposes social reality
If it’s unpopular and makes us uncomfortable or inconvenienced, it isn’t going to fly. So, we form a colossal crowd of equal voices to assert antireality against truths that are difficult to accept. The truth? Industrial scale farming and food processing relies on cost cutting to keep ahead of competition. That means ever more units [...]
Climate change puts spotlight on overpopulation
We already know that increasing food production causes population growth. Volume of food production is like a piston. Habitat is the cylinder it slides into. The gas or fluid inside is the size of population. The piston goes up and population expands. Shove it down (or provide us expensive affluence) and our numbers contract. We [...]
Life support for indolence
Here comes another major split between a responsible, productive demographic against an irresponsible collective seeking to distribute the impact of their own inconsideration and misfortunes. This is also another method of forcing equality by taking from the positives and redistributing to the negatives until the mutual dormancy of an orchestrated zero potential for everyone involved [...]