Human, Not-Quite Human
In seeking power from steroids and microchips, we become their slaves, and in losing our freedom we lose at least a part of our humanity.
In seeking power from steroids and microchips, we become their slaves, and in losing our freedom we lose at least a part of our humanity.
Many otherwise good people are upset with the remarks made by a tech school prof who said she hoped Queen Elizabeth died a slow and painful death. Evil, stupid, ignorant are some of the epithets I have heard applied to the prof in question, but would anyone not evil, stupid, and ignorant be interested in teaching uncritical racism, an ideology designed to stir up hatred and violence among all racial groups. And, what kind of a school, once famous for engineering, would inflict such a course on would be engineers and architects? Obviously, not a school anyone in his right...
Mankind has got to know its limitations, but from the Tower of Babel to Soviet Union to Woke America, too many men have attempted to build a heaven on earth that turns out to resemble Hell.
Nonetheless…if there is one thing we Americans take seriously, it is money But even on that most vital subject, we cannot bring ourselves to tell the truth.
By Liberal Tradition, I am referring to an intellectual current that begins in the Renaissance, takes ideological shape in the 17th and 18th centuries and is decked out as a complete ethical, political, and economic theory by such writers as Adam Smith and the Utilitarians, and ultimately spawns its socialist mirror image in Marx.
Back in November 1972, I was 17 years old and seven months shy of voting. But I campaigned against Proposal B, an initiative in Michigan that would have legalized abortion. We defeated it, with 61% voting Nay.
Why would Bill Gates buy farmland in North Dakota? Should he be permitted?
Today’s announcement of the Court’s decision to overturn Roe and to return they regulation to the states was long overdue, but the defenders of innocent life are making a serious mistake, if they think the war is over. We have not only not even won a major battle, but the reliance on the Court shows how weak we rally are.
Want to reduce irrational violence? Empower parents and shut down Hollywood.
It is easy to see how an empowered sense of equality might lead a blind law student into feeling justified at demanding, at public expense, a reader to help him get through his courses. The question, though, is why do people who are not blind acquiesce in the foolishness?