Remember this saying, “when you are in your 20’s, everyone is thinking about you; when you are in your 40’s you don’t give a damn that people are thinking about you; when you are in your 60’s you realize that no one has been thinking about you at all.” Well, I am in my 60’s […]
Ordinary Americans Duped
The business boom of the 1920s had increased worker productivity by about 43%, but wages did not rise. Those profits, along with tax cuts and stock market dividends, meant that wealth moved upward and in 1929, 5% of the population received one third of the nation’s income. In 1932, voters turned for Democratic president Franklin […]
Rigid Values are Killing Us
This is a repost of a post, which I think is beneficial to us all in regards to climate change. It is written as a blog post by Guilherme B. Guzzo: In a very interesting passage of “Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance”, Robert Pirsig uses a metaphor to describe how the rigidity of […]
The Benefits of Suffering
Good morning. My favorite part of the day is early morning before sunrise. As I sat on my porch basking under the beams of the full moon, I was reminded of an emotional breakthrough that I wanted to share with you. This breakthrough gave me a vast amount of peace. However, the breakthrough didn’t come […]
The Supreme Court is Destroying Humanity
Greed is causing human extinction and the Supreme Court is supporting it. We have to have regulations. As Norm Chomsky said, “There is overwhelming scientific consensus that we have to radically cut the use of fossil fuels, beginning now, aiming for termination a couple of decades from now. If not, we pass irreversible tipping points […]