It isnt enough to fight to fix the world one time; you have to make it better in ways that last and that means creating institutions to meet the needs of people. We not only need to do this but the demand is so large that we need to actually study this, teach it and distribute the knowledge of how to do so at a high school level.
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Sunday, January 26, 2020
11 Fixes For a Broken Everything - The Root Value of Truth
Fake News isnt just some abstract problem that makes elections harder. Honor and Truth are the things that let us live and get through every day.
Saturday, January 18, 2020
11 Fixes For a Broken Everything - Oliver Twist Courts
If it isn't being enforced, it shouldn't be a law. We need special prosecutors outside the regular chain of command in the justice department for laws people dont enforce OR we need to get rid of the laws that even orphan courts dont want to make happen.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
11 Fixes For a Broken Everything - Shackling Milo Mindbender
There will always be Milo Mindbenders in the world. Wealth Taxes and Income Taxes solve some of the problem but they find ways around it. The only long term sustainable solution (besides changing the fundamental nature of humanity) is making sure that Milo works for US rather than just himself to get what he wants.
Monday, December 23, 2019
11 Fixes for a Broken Everything - A League of their Own
State governments bully local governments and it is high time the Federal Government sided with them against regressive policies meant to enslave the majority of the country to lies.
Saturday, December 21, 2019
A Christmas Spirit of Their Own
We were watching the Muppet Christmas Carol when I was hit by an interesting and important insight.
Dickenson did indeed 'invent' our modern concept of christmas, not Coca Cola. Nostalgia in Christmas Past and "Cheer" in Christmas Present.
But there is a dark undercurrent of depression and despair; it doesn't have to be blood curdling murder, it is among other things the difference between what we expect Christmas to be and what it actually is...and that is the Ghost of Christmas Future.
Scrooge is legitimately evil and betrays his own culture; but many others are caught up in a theology or holiday they never signed up for or believe in...it is easy to like the nostalgia or the cheer, but many folks never felt connected to it at all, terrible memories or simply an enhancement of depression
But the hooded figure that serves as the linchpin to scrooge people isnt just for looming silently and pointing; he is a subtle undertone that Dickenson reminds us that without our action; Christmas is darkness. That is not a chain of obligation around the neck of the depressed to smile and lie that they are having a good time, rather a challenge to those of us who are able to look out for others and include them, that it is a celebration we must collectively as a community seek to embrace. It is the reminder that the future is always a shadow unless we choose to make it more in the present.
Dickenson did indeed 'invent' our modern concept of christmas, not Coca Cola. Nostalgia in Christmas Past and "Cheer" in Christmas Present.
But there is a dark undercurrent of depression and despair; it doesn't have to be blood curdling murder, it is among other things the difference between what we expect Christmas to be and what it actually is...and that is the Ghost of Christmas Future.
Scrooge is legitimately evil and betrays his own culture; but many others are caught up in a theology or holiday they never signed up for or believe in...it is easy to like the nostalgia or the cheer, but many folks never felt connected to it at all, terrible memories or simply an enhancement of depression
But the hooded figure that serves as the linchpin to scrooge people isnt just for looming silently and pointing; he is a subtle undertone that Dickenson reminds us that without our action; Christmas is darkness. That is not a chain of obligation around the neck of the depressed to smile and lie that they are having a good time, rather a challenge to those of us who are able to look out for others and include them, that it is a celebration we must collectively as a community seek to embrace. It is the reminder that the future is always a shadow unless we choose to make it more in the present.
Thursday, November 14, 2019
11 Fixes For a Broken Everything - System Failure
Want total cultural collapse? Because this is how you get total system collapse.
One psychopath hidden as a leader in your organization is bad. A HEIRARCHY of them as they protect and recruit their own causes your institution to fail.
How do you stop it?
Out them.
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