human nature

What Is Meant By “Human Nature”?

November 29, 2021 Comments Off on What Is Meant By “Human Nature”?
As a preface to my new field of inquiry: Human nature: “the general psychological characteristics, feelings, and behavioral traits of humankind, regarded as shared by all humans” I am most interested in how human nature is framed and partially determined by the mechanisms in our brains. In addition human culture --->> read more -->>
borrowed without permsission from The Atlantic 2017
human nature

Accounting for Trump and the Resurgence of Autocracy

November 28, 2021 Comments Off on Accounting for Trump and the Resurgence of Autocracy
11.28.2021 – revised 11.29.2021 For the last ten years and more I have been studying US history and the current state of our affairs. A significant focus has been on what I refer to as the “actual workings of capitalism”. You can find some of the findings at AmericanDelusions.com. More --->> read more -->>
economy

What’s Wrong With Inequality – the word?

November 26, 2021 Comments Off on What’s Wrong With Inequality – the word?
Ban inequality – the word, the naked word, from our political rhetoric. Inequality is everywhere around us in the media sphere as well as in our day-to-day conversations. Amongst progressive folk one can drop the word like an F bomb and summon up agreeable outrage in one’s interlocutors without saying --->> read more -->>
healthcare

Our Corrupt Politics – Drug Pricing Again…..

October 21, 2021 Comments Off on Our Corrupt Politics – Drug Pricing Again…..
“A 30-Year Campaign to Control Drug Prices Faces Yet Another Failure Democrats have made giving government the power to negotiate drug prices a central campaign theme for decades. With the power to make it happen, they may fall short yet again.” This is the headline with its tagline in today’s --->> read more -->>
human nature

Humans, Human Culture and Popular Government

March 22, 2021 Comments Off on Humans, Human Culture and Popular Government
The US is commonly cited as the first large experiment in popular government. Even admitting that it started on the basis of a government of white men that excluded women and non-European men and who enslaved other human beings, it was the first large trial of the idea that the --->> read more -->>
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political system

Trump and Republicans bring us a 9/11 every day

December 3, 2020 Comments Off on Trump and Republicans bring us a 9/11 every day
Thursday 12/3/2020 2,977 people died in the attacks in the US on 9/11/2001. The Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center reported 2,804 deaths yesterday. As noted earlier, back in February and March of this year one could just say that the pandemic was an act of nature. But after 9 --->> read more -->>
economy

Video Post: The Monopolization of the Economy and Zephyr Teachout’s “Break’Em Up”

October 27, 2020 Comments Off on Video Post: The Monopolization of the Economy and Zephyr Teachout’s “Break’Em Up”
An introduction to monopolies and book review of Zephyr Teachout’s new book Break’Em Up: recovering our freedom from big ag, big tech, and big money, All Points Books, 2020. What are monopolies? How monopolized (concentrated) is the US economy Examples of how monopolization works and its effects The history of --->> read more -->>
free-market ideology

Video Post – Externalities – getting somebody else to pay for my production costs – the In Depth Capitalism series

October 25, 2020 Comments Off on Video Post – Externalities – getting somebody else to pay for my production costs – the In Depth Capitalism series
Capitalism features a structural drive to create and use external costs to increase profits. Pollution of the earth is the most obvious and visible; there are many others including injuries and death for workers. Share this:TweetLike this:Like Loading...