During a conversation with a friend soon after September 11, 2001, I compared the al-Qaeda attacks to a major natural disaster. The difference, I said, was our collective reaction. Suppose a tremendous earthquake had toppled the World Trade Center. The destruction would have been widespread, with thousands more people killed. Would there still be this angry, vengeful response which [...]
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9/11, Hurricanes, Elections, and Change
Posted in Politics, Religion, Social matters, Truth
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On Teaching Children How to Think or What to Think
This showed up one day on my Facebook newsfeed. It’s among the thousands of catchy image quotes that friends like to share. I found one attribution to cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. Although I couldn’t verify the quote anywhere else, it does seem consistent with other things I’ve read about her. Teaching children how to think seems a [...]
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Also tagged Fear, Morality, Society, Thinking, Truth, Virtue
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Good Shepherd, Bad Shepherd*
The word sheeple has been around for at least 60 years as a derogatory reference to people who are docile, foolish, and easily led—like sheep to slaughter. There is a paradox here, because sheeple applies to absolutely no one. Stop anybody on the street and ask, “Are you docile, foolish, and easily led?” and you will [...]
Posted in Illusion and Delusion, Politics, Religion, Social matters, Truth
Also tagged Delusion, Politics, Society, Truth
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