Saturday, June 24, 2017
Tolerance: The Utopia That Wasn’t
Recently, conservative commentator David French wrote in a National Review article titled "We’re Not in a Civil War, but We Are Drifting Toward Divorce," about the increasing polarization of our citizenry.
According to Mr. French, our nation has seen a continuing trend, which has
accelerated in the last 20 years, of people self-segregating into like-minded
enclaves around the country. If you look, for example, at the now famous
electoral map, you will understand what he means. The country is sharply
divided between red and blue states, a fact that indicates not only what
the politics of a particular region are, but also its general ideology.
Saturday, June 10, 2017
Where No Man Has Gone Before?
If you're like me, every time I watch a space alien movie (which
isn't all that often, now that I think about it) or some sort of space
exploration program, I'm always wondering why aliens are almost always
portrayed as hostile. Think of the last such program you saw. With few
exceptions, aliens in them are always out to destroy humans and are more than
likely monsters who, for some reason, have little in the way of logical
thinking abilities, but nevertheless manage to be way more advanced than humans
are (think Aliens!). Perhaps those who write and produce such shows are simply
mirroring what they know to be true about humanity in general: we are depraved
people who would likely do the same thing if we ever encounter a less advanced
civilization than our own. And come to think of it, that's exactly what has
happened throughout human history!
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