Archive for the ‘ Morality ’ Category

More Productivity Means Fewer Employees are Required

This is something few want to talk about (except Marxists), but this process has been at work ever since the Industrial Revolution began. The result has always been that the rich (the Industrialists, the Capitalists) got richer and the poor (the workers) got poorer. There used to be a middle-class but they are disappearing too. [ READ MORE ]

Something Too Horrible for Words

There is always something we dread more than anything else, something so horrible we don’t have the words to express it – but it is always in the back of our minds, and determines much of our behavior. There are two ways of dealing with this problem, or any other problem: recognize it or deny it. Any [ READ MORE ]

Going Negative

NY Times – Opinionator I could hardly believe my eyes, but this is what David Brooks said: — The thing that actually surprises me most is a shift in morals. Of course politicians have always lied. But now dishonesty is seen as a sign you are playing the game the way it should be played. [ READ MORE ]

Being Unemployed

There but for the grace of God, go I John Bradford, the man this was attributed to, was burned at the stake. In that sense times have improved, but the emotional impact can be almost a great, as these two links show: NY Times - Control Not Working – the pulse of the American Depression I did the [ READ MORE ]

Melinda Gates: Let’s put birth control back on the agenda

TED I have been curious to see what Bill’s wife looked like. Her looks are not so awesome, but her talk (which must have been scripted by professionals) is. This is one smart gal. She goes into her Catholic childhood and upbringing. And states the problem women all over the world face when planning for [ READ MORE ]

The Public Must Remain Satiated

CNN - What Facebook says about America There has been a rash of books and articles recently telling Americans everything is all right – in fact, things have never been better – and maybe you would like to buy a fine bridge I know about too. What interests me is not what they are trying to [ READ MORE ]

The Cost of Going to College

Harper’s Magazine - From Ph.D. to Escort: How Debt Can Change Students This a summary of the article Easy Chair: the Price of Admission in the June issue. They have changed their formatting to HTML to make referring to it easier. I am supposed to be able to read the whole thing online, since I subscribe to [ READ MORE ]

Not Understanding

Americans do not understand, which is amazing enough – but are also determined to not understand – which is astonishing. My more fastidious readers will ask “Understand what?”, and I can reply “Anything.” They do not understand anything, and are determined not to. Now that I have repeated this twice to my readers (who will probably not [ READ MORE ]

Ethnic Cleansing

Yahoo News - Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial As this article notes, Mladic is still a hero to Serb Nationalists. This reminds me of my conservative brother, for whom Bush was a hero. He personally displayed large signs at a main highway intersection in Flagstaff, Arizona urging the Iraq War. This war, as [ READ MORE ]

Americans Do Not Like People

They are above that kind of thing. This explains a lot about their behavior, which otherwise is mystifying. For example, their attitude towards health care, which seems simple to me: it’s about caring for people. But they do not see it that way. For them, it’s about keeping people in their place, which is well [ READ MORE ]

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