Apart from the serious tone and content of this article, I just want to mention how quirky and charming it is to include a real world mailing address at the end. While I won't do it, it does sorta make me feel like I should sit at a writing desk and compose a well-structured missive.
Actually, you CAN do that, start with a blank page and start writing! If you don't like how it turns out, there's the delete key. First order level of thought is realizing that you have consciousness, second order is assuming from that that you have free will, next, try to organize your thoughts and their relationship to whatever reality actually is.
Yes, agreed! I hope he can keep his health up, the stress of this war along with the constant failures of supposed "leadership" isn't doing him any good. WHEN will people in power ever listen??
Of greater interest and concern to me is what does it say about countries that these two lunatics get to stay in office ...... is passiveness indifference another sociocidal malignancy?
Yes, passive indifference is a personal and social malaise, a part of cognitive dissonance, as displayed by treating politics as a spectator sport in the home country and in the other spineless countries, their refusal to, or not even considering to, initiate charges of war crimes. And that action is the only one that will stop this, and set the example for the future. People (and their leaders) don’t think there will ever be serious consequences. Dorks on ropes will cure that.
One enormous difference between Hitler and Trump is that the former was highly intelligent.
Additionally Hitler had a number of admirable qualities. He was an outstanding watercolorist; he banned testing on animals; he was a vegetarian; he neither smoked nor drank.
I dare anyone to name a single positive thing about Trump.
Apart from the serious tone and content of this article, I just want to mention how quirky and charming it is to include a real world mailing address at the end. While I won't do it, it does sorta make me feel like I should sit at a writing desk and compose a well-structured missive.
Actually, you CAN do that, start with a blank page and start writing! If you don't like how it turns out, there's the delete key. First order level of thought is realizing that you have consciousness, second order is assuming from that that you have free will, next, try to organize your thoughts and their relationship to whatever reality actually is.
Couldn't be better. I am so glad that Jeffrey Sachs is in our world.
Yes, agreed! I hope he can keep his health up, the stress of this war along with the constant failures of supposed "leadership" isn't doing him any good. WHEN will people in power ever listen??
Of greater interest and concern to me is what does it say about countries that these two lunatics get to stay in office ...... is passiveness indifference another sociocidal malignancy?
Yes, passive indifference is a personal and social malaise, a part of cognitive dissonance, as displayed by treating politics as a spectator sport in the home country and in the other spineless countries, their refusal to, or not even considering to, initiate charges of war crimes. And that action is the only one that will stop this, and set the example for the future. People (and their leaders) don’t think there will ever be serious consequences. Dorks on ropes will cure that.
I can respond thusly:
One enormous difference between Hitler and Trump is that the former was highly intelligent.
Additionally Hitler had a number of admirable qualities. He was an outstanding watercolorist; he banned testing on animals; he was a vegetarian; he neither smoked nor drank.
I dare anyone to name a single positive thing about Trump.
Right! The worst possible example of a living human, a disgrace to the entire species.