Do we legitimize harmful social institutions? It appears we do! And if we want humankind to improve, and plan to do anything about it, we must understand the forces which allow this. I contend there are harmful social institutions in our cultures and we unnecessarily legitimize them by enacting them; then teach our children to […]
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Our Children’s Future
If you’ve arrived on this page to discuss the poor condition of the world our children and grandchildren have to face—welcome. I know there must be many parents who have concerns about this. So, this is my attempt to draw people together, parents or not, to discuss the completely unacceptable conditions of our world and […]
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There’s too much wrong and: We Tolerate It. Pollution, population growth, wars, violence, failing economies, disease and joblessness; all bad and getting worse—yet we tolerate it. This confounds my thinking! I decided if there’s a way to explain this, I needed to find it. Eventually I understood, there are reasons for this detrimental behavior—and most […]
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“There seems to be an increasing trend for kids to experiment with medications stored in their home medicine cabinets. This is dangerous and sometimes disastrous.” This requires our intervention, according to the woman on the phone. It did sound like a worthwhile effort, but I didn’t think it would get to the root of the […]
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Do we have free will? For over a half century, I never questioned—and no one ever asked. I’m sure I didn’t doubt I had free will. But it would be hard to avoid thinking this way being brought up in an average American household. But if we do have free will—how free are we The […]
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