It took 800 years from the date of the Magna Carta to the present for the democratic principles bsed onthe freedom of the individual to grow and mature among the English speaking people. It is a great irony that the creators of democracy have become its executioners. Until the collapse of the Soviet Union, visitors …
“Patriotism is your conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it”. (George Bernard Shaw) Maybe, but there is nothing wrong with that – it is human and part of our tribal make-up. What is bad news is nationalism, which is the aggressive face of patriotism, based on ignorance …
A young man was recently sold a Mossberg 500 shotgun and casually shot two total strangers in a shopping mall. The man who sold him the gun said, without any sense of irony, that the gun was an “entry level” shotgun for “home defense”. On an average day in America 32 people are murdered with …
There has been a remarkable rehabilitation of Confucianism in modern China. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong denounced the belief system as a vestige of “feudal” culture, yet Confucian ideas – particularly as condensed in the pithy prose of Dizigui – are now back with a vengeance. Chinese parents, alarmed by the pace of …
Conservative groups spend $1 billion a year in an effort to discredit climate science and stop action to cut greenhouse gases. Billionaires, not just oil and mining companies are involved, routing their cash through trusts and tax exempt “charitable” organisations to secure anonymity. (The Guardian Weekly, 03/01/2014) These people are subverting democracy. Such people are …
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