philosophy

  • Good Sociopathy and Ungrounded Intelligence (UI)

    What you might ask is Ungrounded Intelligence or UI. Another term for this form of intelligence could be  inorganic intelligence. For this short posting Ungrounded Intelligence is intelligence disconnected from any form of organic life.  A crow is an intelligent… Continue reading

  • Good and the Essential Power of the Radical Moderate in Democracy

    Moderate is not a political party or a segment of a party.  Moderate is not compromise or one size fits 51 percent.  A Radical Moderate is the most essential player of any democratic government.  Again radical means working from the… Continue reading

  • Good, Cult, and America’s Broken Paradigm

    This writer has written about cults off and on in America and yes we are a culture infected with cult, but cult is not the bottom of our problems; merely a symptom.  Cults come and go and are usually time… Continue reading

  • Good and Science in Handcuffs

    Many of us, including myself are alive on this planet today thanks to the work of science.  Never in this nation’s history has science ever been anything but the frontier of human knowledge.  Never that is until this administration that… Continue reading

  • Good and Hierarchy; its Good Uses and Gross Abuses

    Imagine in a storm a tree falls and breaks the high power electrical line to the hospital.  Not only that, but the backup generators are underwater and the trucks with repair supplies can’t make it to the line break.  The… Continue reading

  • Good and The Three Minds of America

    No science here; just observation. This writer sees three general mindsets in America: The Warring Mind and the Pure Process Mind  and the Peace Maker Mind. The first two minds are weak and the last is a power mind. Starting… Continue reading

  • Good, Wealth, Capitalism and Anti-gravity

    Galleries are not the engine of the art world. Artists and their art are. Culture only trickles up, and money never trickles down.  A comment by Lari Pittman from Los Angeles in an NYT letter to the editor. Here are… Continue reading

  • Good, Nonsense, and Designing our Exit from these Hot Times

    Rated PG-13 for mild peril and mass casualties. Running time: 1 hour 47 minutes. In theaters. This rating summary was given for the new movie Supergirl and this writer is pretty sure the people who wrote it either missed the… Continue reading

  • Good and the Disease of Insatiable Wealth

    Dr. David Lay Williams is a professor of political science who studies the role of economic inequality in the history of political thought. He wrote the following quote as a guest writer in the New York Times addressing ancient concerns… Continue reading

  • Good, Human Connection, and Social Capital

    What is Social Capital?  Is it the ultimate expression of capitalism, or is it an organic dimension of universal human development and thriving?  Let’s start with the idea off social capital as a misnomer.  Poor people, and I mean desperately… Continue reading