Posted in Current Events, Politics on June 29th, 2006 4 Comments »
I went to a viewing of An Inconvenient Truth last night and I have to say, it is a very well made documentary. In as much as it sells an idea, it sells Al Gore. My 12 year old daughter who claims not to like science was brought to tears. She wanted to know what […]
Posted in Politics on June 26th, 2006 No Comments »
I normally don’t write much about everyday politics, but I just have to wonder about the current hubbub over the New York Times revealing that the Bush administration is monitoring financial transactions. I hope Bush is not so naive as to believe the enemy does not know this already.
In the encryption business everyone one knows […]
Posted in Philosophy, Sociology on June 25th, 2006 No Comments »
I would like to make a distinction between two types of individualism, because I think it is useful when talking about change in societies.
The first is conditioned individualism. What I have in mind is a person that is assertive, whether at other’s expense or not, and stresses self-reliance, but the source of the assertiveness […]
Posted in Quote of the Day on June 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
From Russell L. Ackoff:
Autocratic control of a social system runs into trouble with (1) increasing education of its members, (2) increasing technology that they must master to do the tasks assigned to them, and (3) increasing variety of demands made on them. The better those who are managed, governed, or ruled learn how to carry […]