The USA saw an interesting election this past Tuesday. I’m not going to discuss the outcome with any dichotomous judgment – it is what it is. I have friends on both sides of this political isle and they are decent people. Of course there is a lot of name calling Read more…
The so-called civilized world (probably since the institution of empire cities were created some 5-6 millennia ago) have been dominated by an economic paradigm that serves the wealthy at the expense of the common person. The brilliant economist and thinker John Kenneth Galbraith describes this nicely with his four quotes Read more…
In the last post I quoted a passage by Bennett Sherry of the OER Project. Go back and reread that passage. Despite numerous efforts to force international agreements on human rights, none have worked. Now ask yourself why? I don’t think it is a problem of the human collective. No, Read more…
I have talked a little about Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) as it is occurring now, and in my Espe stories of how it was avoided in that futuristic view. While the potentialities of a CBDC could be positive, the very fact that they are to be controlled by global Read more…
“Ultimately everything depends on the quality of the individual, but our fatally short-sighted age thinks only in terms of large numbers and mass organizations…” and “It is not the universal and the regular that characterize the individual, but rather the unique. He is not to be understood as a recurrent Read more…
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed” Martin Luther King Jr. A short break this week from the Espe stories to highlight a massive piece of global regulation about to erupt into our lives if we allow it. As if the poorly Read more…
“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying” Arthur C. Clarke. When I was teaching my university environmental Studies introduction class, many of the students named it the ‘doom and gloom’ class because of Read more…
“The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.” This is a great line from the movie, The Usual Suspects. Without giving the story line away, it is a great story about how people get bamboozled. Today, the mainstream media and the corporate systems Read more…
“The Hallmark of an open mind is not letting your ideas become your identity. If you define yourself by your opinions, then questioning them is a threat to your integrity. If you see yourself as a curious person or a lifelong learner, changing your mind is a moment of growth” Read more…