Category Archives: culture

211. The High Price of Friends

Posted on July 22, 2007 by Thor

The trou­ble with peo­ple is that they eat, drink and inhale. When you hang out with these crit­ters they get twitchy if you don’t agree to destroy your own body with unwanted food, and poi­son your brain with booze, sug­ary … Con­tinue read­ing →

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192. Leader and Anti-Leader

Posted on January 15, 2006 by Thor

Civ­i­liza­tion is the process of har­ness­ing destruc­tive energies for cre­ative ends. War is the process of har­ness­ing cre­ative energy for destruc­tive ends. A leader is a teacher who per­suades oth­ers to choose civ­i­liza­tion over war. An anti-leader is a preda­tor … Con­tinue read­ing →

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155. Creed Caper

Posted on May 17, 2003 by Thor

What­ever the creed, there are believ­ers. Wherever believ­ers exist, there is the chance for power of some kind. When­ever power can be scented, preda­tors gather like jack­als. That is the human story. What kind of creed? Any at all — … Con­tinue read­ing →

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140. Wise and Technical

Posted on March 23, 2002 by Thor

With the first cook­ing fire to burn down a grass hut, tech­nol­ogy exceeded the human abil­ity to man­age it. The bal­ance of tech­nol­ogy and wis­dom has been pre­car­i­ous ever since. Now tech­nol­ogy avail­able to rich states and cor­po­ra­tions so far … Con­tinue read­ing →

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107. Immortal Souls? 

Posted on November 22, 1999 by Thor

The idea that a human spirit is finite in time is extremely unpop­u­lar and there­fore scarcely believed. Belief is a kind of bed sheet we like to hide under in the dark.

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