People are fundamentally about the same everywhere. Why, then, do we select governmental leaders who depart from our peaceful inclinations and cause problems none of us want or would cause ourselves?

Listen and hear the same excuse now on an even larger scale encompassing #immigration as well as #race, #education and #religion. And it’s everywhere—not just the South. Fear of #diversity blinds and binds and halts all kinds of progress.

It’s not too late to take Umair Haque’s advice but it increasingly feels as if the world prefers to thrash about in #chaos that sustains #inequality instead of working to rebuild for the benefit of most people.

Mills, writing when #AI was science fiction, sees progress upside-down when #capitalism is in true focus.

It’s going to be increasingly important to knock down praise of Trump based on misrepresentations of him. Here’s one: medium.com/@mdmichaeldr... refuting an NYT essay that tries to convince people that #Trump is a moderate.

One event pushes another event, a cascade of unpredictable results. Given our present environment, these results are likely to be awful leading to a sense of doom. That’s why at the outset of the #NewYear #2024 we’re starting with the “Dread of ‘24.” medium.com/@mdmichaeldr...

John Dean’s book is not new but will retain its vitality as long as there is #authoritarian threat like #Trump.

Good observations from Grant Piper: medium.com/@grantpiperw...

Kant’s #philosophy putting life and the world in its place.

The #polycrisis not not just #climate change. It involves a confluence of natural world and human mind disruptions that are increasingly unpredictable and mutually horrific. medium.com/@mdmichaeldr...