Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Out With Predatory Capitalism, In With a “Life Economy” John Perkins, Yes! Magazine, Sept. 16, 2020 (https://www.yesmagazine.org/opinion/2020/09/16/pandemic-capitalism-life-economy/) The long march of hierarchical and colonial history has led us to this moment of awareness. We are learning that the melting glaciers, coronavirus pandemic, species extinctions, racial and income inequality, political turmoil, and other heart-wrenching events are […]
Social Darwinism and empirical materialism come paired together. Restricting our vision to only what we can see, hear, touch, etc., rules out such things as the existence of God, the celestials, the invisible galactics, the Divine Plan, the universal laws, etc. I found the paradigm confining when I was in university and finally left to […]
Rather than follow a lead that seems to be taking our reportage, prior to the election, into more and more extremes, I’d like to explore a different direction. That direction is into laying the foundations for Nova Earth. I’ve never done such a thing so every mile will be in uncharted waters. Somehow we have […]
Yesterday, we looked at social Darwinism as a philosophy that justified racial supremacy and elitism. Today I’d like to look at a second philosophy that keeps the sources of help and comfort hidden from people at large. That philosophy is called empirical materialism. Webster’s defines “empirical” as “originating in or based on observation or experience.” […]
Ever since the Scientific Revolution wrested the public’s attention from flawed religious doctrines, the world has seen life through a paradigm called “empirical materialism.” That paradigm holds that only what can be seen, heard, touched, and felt is real. Anything invisible, insensible, untouchable is dismissed as unreal. It closes the door to such things as […]
