Here’s a sunny and completely problem free topic… Eugenics! For those unfamiliar, “eugenics” is a term coined by Charles Darwin’s cousin, Sir Francis Galton. Basically it’s selective breeding in humans for specific traits like eye color, hair color, intelligence, etc. Eu from the Greek meaning “good” and genos meaning “well-born”. Darwin’s theory gave the framework…
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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble…”
It is the fifth of July in the United States… the day after “Independence day” and we should remember… what? That not everyone was independent when the declaration was conceived? That independence brought more problems than solutions? That the war raged on for some time after we said, “Yep… Step off George. We’ll take it…
“Our anxiety does not come from thinking…”
Anxiety is something that many of use deal with on a day to day basis. I am anxious in social situations to the point of sometimes wanting to avoid them. Others in my life are anxious at the state of the world, the depravity of mankind, the economy, the political theatre we’re subjected to in…
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces…”
The voice of the people, i.e. the way that they effectively communicate ideas and share knowledge, is the cornerstone of humanity’s success as a species. We have no claws. We’re not particularly strong. We’re not especially fast. We have not defensive or offensive traits nor armament of any kind. In the grandness of the animal…