Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer who has published 58 novels, as well as a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction
Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us?
These two webinars may be of interest: Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us? Envisioning Tomorrow’s Earth A Special Zoom Webinar. Sponsored by: Institute on Religion in an Age of Science. https://www.iras.org/ Dates: Monday, June 29, and Tuesday, June 30, 2020 Time: 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. 11:00 PM European Summer Time Register: Be sure to register […]
The Politics of Natural Disasters by Daniel Aldrich
This paper was published in June 2012, well prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. This summary quote is lengthy, very academic, and insightful. Mentally extending the findings stated below to our current global health disaster and future global warming disasters is useful as it implies realtime and future reaction at many societal levels. Art Hunter, CACOR […]
Partnership in all science …
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party. Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure—but the state ought […]
My Assessment of and Response to Our Current Situation
Ruben Nelson, Canadian Club of Rome member, affirms: SUMMARY I am a hopeful pessimist. (EDIT: Please send comments to Ruben) It is my considered judgement that in the coming years and decades we in Modern Techno-industrial (MTI) cultures will be blindsided by great tragedy and despair. These are now irrevocably baked into the next several […]