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The Bikecast Episode #7b: Human Futures, Inevitable Ideas

  • May 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Bikecasts

Picking up where episode #7a left off. Download this episode of the bikecast If DNA-human life survives and spreads outward into the wider universe, it will be subsequent to the shedding of superstition, the embracing of the moral equality of all humans, and the end of violence as a means of social organization. I have [ READ MORE ]

A Task for the Believers (or Bring America Home)

  • March 4th, 2010
  • Posted in Societal

I just caught wind of the coffee party. I don’t know that it will catch on, but the sentiments espoused by the founders and participants appeal, I think, to a broad swath of the not-yet-totally-disillusioned. Here’s the mission statement from coffeepartyusa.com: MISSION: The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation [ READ MORE ]

Non-violence and Political Solutions

  • October 23rd, 2009
  • Posted in Political

A position of non-violence is incompatible with the idea of political solutions to social problems. The state, as we know it, ultimately has only one tool for controlling behavior, it can legitimately kill individual people. All other punishments are premised on this power. Until this is understood, the mass of humanity will remain the the [ READ MORE ]

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