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About Me

I'm freethinking, imagining, radical (and literate). I think it's an existential imperative to support global justice movements and humanist values (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a good start), to self-educate about -and confront- corporate globalization and privileged monopoly of wealth and power (at home and abroad) by technocratic, political, and economic elites - and organize to oppose them everywhere. Mankind's oppressors thrive on apathy of the masses and a "culture of indifference": committed action is necessary against US imperial ambitions and American hypocritical self-exemption from international norms, treaties, and courts...it's very urgent that regular Americans take seriously the threats of nuclear and environmental holocaust and ensure that top-down structures of authority are ELIMINATED, everywhere. There ARE obstacles, like capitalist management of the economy and mass media propaganda. A world without war, corporate tyrannies of private power, hunger, racism, sexism and bigotry, child labor, and other forms of injustice IS POSSIBLE.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

inspired people, intelligent extraterrestrial life, Mozart, Shakespeare; Carl Sagan, Ernst Mayr; Darwin, Einstein...

My Blog

On the subject of Theory and Practice

"Philosophers have only INTERPRETED the world, in various ways; the point is to CHANGE it." -Karl Marx
Posted by on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:42:00 GMT

On the Inescapable Question

(from a lettter to an acquaintance)I think I owe you a brief explanation of my concern about nuclear catastrophe. I'm afraid you are under the mistaken impression that this concern is outdated b...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:02:00 GMT

Empire, Destruction, and the Role of Resistance

A question that is never raised in the intellectual culture is that, in the wake of the imperial Bush doctrine of 2002 and subsequent invasion of Iraq, did the Iraqi resistance save oth...
Posted by on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:37:00 GMT

Former Terrorist Bomber and Presidential Candidate John McCain

As he seeks the highest office in the land, Arizona Senator John McCain readily condemns terrorism and pledges to fight it anywhere and everywhere.Senator McCain, I have a few questions, as an Ar...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:55:00 GMT

Talent, Happiness, Use in Society, and the Hearts of Others

An excerpt from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, in which he describes an abbe's wisdom related to him in his youth."He spoke approvingly of my temperment and talents; but he added that he thought...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:02:00 GMT

The Fraud of so-called "Centrists" and Establishment Wisdom

"There is a theory for everything which proclaims itself "common sense;". . .meditation offered between the true and false; explanation, admonition, a somewhat haughty extenuation which, because it is...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:22:00 GMT

Destiny of the Human Race

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Posted by on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:40:00 GMT