Socrates | Straight Speak

The foxes will never fix the hen house of democracy …

By david|2017-03-16T10:38:15+00:00March 15th, 2017|Categories: community, communitywatch, politics, social|Tags: Cobourg, Plato, Port Hope, Socrates, Trudeau, Trump|

and the hens will never stop being a bunch of chickens Three things you might not know Why did the turkey cross the road? To prove he wasn't a chicken. But being a bunch of turkeys doesn't get us anywhere either, except over to the other side of the same road, which, as Plato established 2,400 years ago, is Read more...

Dumb and Dumber – no, it’s not a movie; it’s reality

By david|2016-12-10T00:41:08+00:00November 20th, 2012|Categories: social|Tags: chimpanzees, Einstein, Gerald Crabtree, Greeks, Jared Diamond, Lucretius, Semb and Dumber, Socrates|

Socrates, Plato, Lucretius would not have allowed Einstein to pass out of the fifth grade. (vk.com) We humans are dumber than we were 1000 years ago Are we devolving rather than evolving? Is the human brain, which is 98.4% the same as a chimpanzee’s, slowly deteriorating? If Lucretius (99-55 BC) had known Einstein would he have considered him Read more...

The human species lacks any goal external to its own biological nature.

Edward O. Wislon, Pulitzer Prize winning American biologist

Exactly how much of nature can we trash and burn and get away with it?

Philip Anderson, Nobel laureate physicist, Princeton

There is nothing man won't do to avoid the difficult task of thinking.

Thomas Edison

We humans are capable of greatness ... but we are making a mess of our planet and becoming a danger to ourselves.

Carl Sagan

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

Edmund Burke