This is us …

By |2022-05-06T10:21:55-04:00May 6th, 2022|Categories: business, community, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

still trapped in Plato's cave! "The prisoners would mistake the shadows for reality." – Socrates, The Republic, Book VII (20 min) About 2,376 years before Fox News was founded (1996), Plato wrote his renowned Allegory of the Caves (380 BCE), introducing it with Socrates saying, "And now, I said, let me show in an allegory how far our nature Read more...

This is us …

By |2022-04-19T11:03:52-04:00April 14th, 2022|Categories: politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Are Will Smith, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Derek Chauvin, Ginni Thomas, Irma Grese, Marjorie Taylor Greene, angry truckers and KKK members just high profile primates in the lab of the failing human experiment? [Photo Top row/L-R: Chris Rock/Will Smith; Vladimir Putin; George Floyd/Derek Chauvin; Bottom row/L-R: Trump; Kim Jong-un; Ginni Thomas/Clarence Thomas; KKK; Irma Grese (Senior Nazi SS Officer); Read more...

The foxes will never fix the hen house of democracy …

By |2017-03-16T10:38:15-04:00March 15th, 2017|Categories: community, communitywatch, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , |

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 |2016-12-10T00:41:08-05:00November 20th, 2012|Categories: social|Tags: , , , , , , , |

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...

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