We live in interesting times. I imagine that there is reason to say this in every generation, which is fair, but ours are certainly among the more i...
For two years, our government leaders have been obstructing and obfuscating one another. Why is it that we only seem to act when we are under absolute pressure?
How did we allow our educational systems to fall so far, so fast? When did the welfare of our children go the same way as health care, the safety of our food and the callous obliteration of our environment?
We reach a "cognitive threshold" beyond which we cannot progress. Another way to say this is that humans, and human societies, can go no further than their inherited biology will allow them to.
If there were a "Watchman" to protect us from danger he would be shaking his rattle vigorously right now. We are in danger of becoming extinct as the...
