Anyone engaged with global issues of Human well being, the distribution of resources, or the future of Society is doing moral philosophy. Being self conscious about principles and premises, improves moral thinking. What are you thinking? What are you fighting for? The problem of well being in today's Society is challenging in all ways. Why should you care ...
Scientific Dictatorship / Diktatur der Wissenschaft / Ditadura Científica / Dictadura Científica
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become the captive of a scientific technological elite. The roots of the Scientific Dictatorship can be traced to the works of Plato some 2,000 years ago. In truth, humanity has been battling the formation of this tyranny for much of known history. Modern forms of scientific power ...
Ideology is Toxic / Ideologie ist Giftig / Ideologia é Tóxico / Ideología es Tóxica
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of Human free thinking. If you adopt some ideology, Leninism, Mormonism … then you have all the answers. You just go and look into ...
1975-04-30 Saigon, Vietnam / Black April / Schwarzer April / Abril Preto / Abril Negro
April 30th is celebrated as a public holiday in Vietnam as Liberation Day or Reunification Day. Among former South Vietnamese expatriates in the US the day is referred to as 'Black April' and is used as a time of lamentation for the fall of Saigon. The date was a sign of American abandonment, a memorial for the ...
The truth about ISIS / Die Wahrheit über ISIS / A verdade sobre o ISIS / La verdad sobre ISIS
The Yinon Plan explains conspiracy theories according to which the article either predicted or planned major political events in the Middle East since the 1980's. Including the invasion of Iraq and the overthrowing of Saddam Hussein, the Syrian Civil War and the rise of the Islamic State. Israeli strategists viewed Iraq as their biggest strategic challenge from an ...
Governments always Lie / Regierungen lügen Immer / Governos sempre Mentem / Gobiernos siempre Mienten
Dishonesty in politics is nothing new. First, lies can hold political systems together. Second, lies can be strategically valuable to achieve their goals. Third, lies can cement the loyalty of subordinates. It is quiet hard to fool large groups of people for a long period of time. Psychological literature on persuasion suggests that people can be persuaded to ...
2013-04-13 Natal, Brazil / Feeling Blue / Blau Fühlen / Sentindo Azul / Sentirse Azul
Feeling blue? Taking a break from Facebook might help. Regular use of social network such as Facebook can negatively affect your emotional well-being and satisfaction with life. But you do not have to quit Facebook altogether; simply changing your social network behavior and taking an occasional break from Facebook may lift your spirits. Find some sunshine or ...
Beyond the Matrix / Über die Matrix Hinaus / Além da Matriz / Más allá de la Matriz
Once you get out of the Matrix, there is no turning back. Once you get out of the Matrix, you move beyond, there are new laws and experiences, new realms. All seems new, your experiences change profoundly, you are ready for these changes. The whole World is before you to explore, like you have never experienced it ...
Civilization of War / Zivilisation des Krieges / Civilização da Guerra / Civilização da Guerra
The history of our civilization has been one of regular war. In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, grown powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without. Though the power moved from one country to another, the general pattern of the political and economic ...
The Precious Gift / Das kostbare Geschenk / O presente Precioso / El regalo Precioso
When will we as Humans realize that we are not separate from nature and that infact we are nature. When will we understand than when we destroy the planet we are destroying ourselves. We live in an insane time when no one is thinking long term and actions are based on short-term profits. But there is still hope. ...
In a Heartbeat / In einem Herzschlag / Numa batida de Coração / En un latido del Corazón
Tell everyone that being in Love with someone of the same sex is as normal as it is for two people of the opposite sex. After all, Love is Love. Expressing Love in a same sex relationship is something natural, Love is a natural part of being Human. To want to share Love is a natural feeling and need ...
Twelve Rules for Life / Zwölf Regeln fürs Leben / Doze Regras para a Vida / Doce reglas para la Vida
Suffering is built into the structure of Human being. Although it can be unbearable, people have a choice either to withdraw, which is a suicidal gesture or to face and transcend it. It is nice to think the meaning of life is happiness, but what happens when you are unhappy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-kfIb1dp1w Happiness is a great side effect. When it ...
Travel around the World / Reise um die Welt / Viajar o Mundo / Viajar el Mundo
Travel around the World has become another exercise in narcissistic Self presentation, one more way of desperately extracting some semblance of uniqueness out of your otherwise mediocre existence. You can keep traveling around the World, and still do not know who you are and what you are looking for. You have been thrown into uncomfortable situations, breaking ...
The way you see Beauty / Die Art Schönheit zu Sehen / A maneira como você vê Beleza / La forma en que ves la belleza
Money and Beauty are no object. You can not buy self esteem. - I am intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful than for a plain one. Different yes, but not necessarily better. So, the next time you see a stunningly beautiful woman ... ...
Preciousness of Time / Kostbarkeit der Zeit / Preciosidade do Tempo / Preciosidad del Tiempo
I am very aware of the preciousness of time. I was given two to three years to live. I faced a life unable to properly communicate. Fortunately my mind was unaffected. While all around me people have passed the day deep in conversation, I have often been transported afar, lost inside my own thoughts, trying to ...
Reveries of the connected World / Träumereien der vernetzten Welt / Delírios do Mundo Conectado / Delirios del Mundo Conectado
In the Greek myth of Pandora's box, a curious woman opens a box and releases all manner of evil into the World. Once the box is open, there is no closing it, and only hope is left at the bottom. Is the internet holy or evil? That question does not really matter. The internet just is. It ...
World Government / Weltregierung / Governo Mundial / Gobierno Mundial
The most important change has been the one made necessary by the radio and the airplane. Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. The World is now so small that a major event in any country affects all. A civil war ...
What is it like to be You / Wie ist es Du zu Sein / Como é ser Você / Cómo es ser Tú
Both sides in any war believe that their side is the just side. The mentality of war says that only when our enemies are defeated can we have peace. Humanity has been fighting an endless war with each other for thousands of years and no side has been able to claim victory. The problem is the habit ...
1993-03-20 Warrington, UK / In your Head / In deinem Kopf / Na sua Cabeça / En tu Cabeza
Three-year-old Johnathan Ball died at the scene. He had been in town with his babysitter, shopping for a Mother's Day card. Twelve-year-old Tim Parry, was gravely wounded and died on 25 March 1993 when his life support machine was switched off, after tests had found only minimal brain activity. Zombie is a protest song by Irish rock band The Cranberries, written about the 1993 ...
An illegal Experience / Eine illegale Erfahrung / Uma experiência Ilegal / Una experiencia Ilegal
The psychedelic experience is as central to understanding your humaness as having sex, or having a child, or having responsibilities, or having hopes and dreams, and yet it is illegal. We are somehow told, we are infantilized. We are told you know you can wander around with in the sanctioned playpen of ordinary Consciousness. And we have some ...
Discovery of Fire / Entdeckung des Feuers / Descoberta do Fogo / Descubrimiento del Fuego
Fire is the fundamental Human technology, the foundation of everything that came after in Human societies. Controlled fire transformed our diet, physiology, psychology, language, social structure, technologies, and our relationship to the rest of nature. 300.000 years ago, fire-based technologies existed throughout Eurasia. Fire allowed Humans to seize caves previously occupied by other large, fierce mammals. Fired pottery existed ...
1915-03-10 Souain, France / Paths of Glory / Wege zum Ruhm / Glória Feita de Sangue / Senderos de Gloria
The bayonet assault began at 5 am on March 10th, 1915 against a stretch of enemy trenches that was heavily defended by machine guns and barbed wire. Several unsuccessful attacks had already left this part of No Man's Land strewn with French dead. On the morning of the assault, a preceding artillery barrage dropped shells on the ...
Cure to Loneliness / Heilung zur Einsamkeit / Cura à Solidão / Cura a la Soledad
On a deeper level, I think every Human being has a need to be useful, a need to do more with life than just being secure, having enough money, feeding your family. We need more than that. We need to contribute to something that is beautiful to us, that we care about for real. Certainly on one ...
Sell your Soul / Verkaufe Deine Seele / Vende a tua Alma / Vende tu Alma
You can have power, wealth, an attractive mate and virtually anything else you ever dreamed of by selling your soul to Satan! You must know what you are doing when you make the deal or Satan will cheat you. In history Humans have agreed to spend eternity in hell when they die in exchange for earthly pleasures ...
1981-02-23 Madrid, Spain / Coup d’état / Putsch / Golpe de Estado / Golpe de Estado
Cameramen and technicians recorded half an hour of the attempted coup d'état in Spain, providing the World with an audiovisual record of the attempt. In addition, members of the private radio broadcaster SER continued reporting with open microphones from within the Congress of Deputies, with a significant portion of the population following on the radio. As such the date ...