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  • 2007
    • June
      • A one-step toddle toward a new ethic, a working morality
        06/24/07
        Now that we are all united in seeking a first world living standard, who defines goodness?
        Culling people is bad, breeding better people is good.
        The eugenics started by Darwin’s cousin Galton, and popularised by most US States from the 1920’s, had an unforeseen consequence: bad public

      • How pack mentality breeds scavengers
        06/13/07
        Anyone else notice the media ducking out of crushing responsibility over the feral wolves attacking politicians issue?
        Wolves need an alpha lead. In the case of Blair, the Tory press. Quite right too.
        But when the rest of the pack has to join in or lose sales and jobs, who will head them o

      • Old age reclassified
        06/12/07
        Fukuyama divides old age into independent Class I with free action and free will, class II is dependent. The split is roughly in our eighties. Clearly there are multifactor subdivisions, and they are highly adjustable. None need be a drain on purse or society, given forethought and flexibility.
      • Dear Sergei Brin of Google re China
        06/08/07
        Dear Sergei Brin,

        Congratulations on google’s tough decision about China. Like you said, you all discussed it first, thoroughly. Hang in there. America has two million problem citizens in jail and as bad many millions of wealthy in denial, Mao killed 70 million, Stalin 35 million, post

      • A code for schooling: understanding, energy, compassion.
        06/05/07
        In the last century, one good school motto was light, life and love. Lux, vita, caritas in Latin.

        A modern translation might be understanding, energy and compassion.

        The changes are cosmetic, but the need is keener this millennium. We have seen the effects of trying only two of

      • Lula and Mbeki could just be right
        06/04/07
        Guardian 4th June re G8 2007
        President Lula said the decisive moment in the current "Doha round" of talks would come in the next few weeks, with the G8 summit at a trade ministers' meeting due in mid-June.
        "I think that this month something has to happen. If nothing hap

      • Virtue, vice and voodoo for survival
        06/03/07
        The graces were listed early in western cultures, and much later extended to the Victorian virtues that decorate London’s embankment.
        Eight vices were forbidden in the early mosaic code, which wisely watered them down to where they permitted society to survive. How much lying is permitted? A

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