I am interested in learning about primary political positions that place an emphasis in political strategy on the children of a community. It seems to me that neither capitalism, communism/socialism nor anarchy/libertarianism place a primary emphasis on the treatment of children as the foundation of liberty and equality. References that indicate otherwise are welcome.
The question is motivated by my consideration of "natural ethics" and ethical imperatives that serve the cause of species survival, and the following are my perhaps idealistic ramblings when I apply this thinking to my own species and community.
On the face of it our species is doing remarkably well despite our clear neglect of children and absence of liberty and equality. The bottom line question, however, is one of sustainability in
There are Godfather style bullies and petty bulles, but those who seek power, achieve power and then abuse their power, (whether on the grand scale of Abramoff or the petty scale of local lawyers and judges who view corruption and pay-off's as their "daily entitlement") are seeing their come-uppance.
In New York City, (the cultural belly-button of the universe), the hunt is on.
Clarence Norman, former head of the Brooklyn Democratice Political Machine has been convicted; Michael H. Feinberg, Surrogate Court Judge in Brooklyn's "King's County Surrogate's Court has been de-frocked; and the attorneys who got their political perks in the way of fiducairy appointments and "enhanced" commissions, are being investigated as this reporter writes.
Interestingly, New York City's Mayor Bloomberg, (in a Daily News Article published a
I never expected to be writing my first 2006 blog about what I fondly call the AussieBastard tree, but it’s made an unremarked-upon appearance in so many TV news bulletins over this weekend of storm watches, that I figured it was worth a warble.
The Australian blue gum has such a wide presence here in the West in part because the University of California Experiment Station gave out thousands of the seeds and seedlings at the turn of the last century, according to a 1997 book by CSU, Stanislaus, librarian and archivist, Robert L. Santos. Read the rest of this entry »
This year, the third culture thinkers in the Edge community have written 117 original essays (a document of 72,500 words) in response to the 2006 Edge Question — “What is your dangerous idea?”. Here you will find indications of a new natural philosophy, founded on the realization of the import of complexity, of evolution. Very complex systems — whether organisms, brains, the biosphere, or the universe itself — were not constructed by design; all have evolved. There is a new set of metaphors to describe ourselves, our minds, the universe, and all of the things we know in it.