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Error 404: the Need for Change

Posted on August 1, 2023 by greg

Georg Hegel (1770-1831) introduced a system to study history – dialectical thinking – a progression in which each successive movement emerges as a solution to the contradictions inherent in the preceding movement with the development of freedom and the consciousness … Continue reading →

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Impact of Marginalization On the Social Determinants of Health

Posted on July 15, 2023 by greg

Oxford reference defines marginalization as a spatial metaphor for a process of social exclusion in which individuals or groups are relegated to the fringes of a society, being denied economic, political, and/or symbolic power and pushed towards being ‘outsiders’. Marginalized … Continue reading →

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 Authoritarian Capitalism and 1984: How Freedom Dies

Posted on July 1, 2023 by greg

Between the 9th and 15th Centuries, autocratic monarchies and ecclesiastical hierarchies dominated Western society. These systems began to fall away as people increasingly asserted their right to individual liberty. This push for a greater focus on the individual favoured capitalism … Continue reading →

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Urgent Optimism Approach Makes Change Possible

Posted on June 15, 2023 by greg

You know how some gamers just can’t seem to quit. Even when they keep losing the same level over and over…and over again. Why do they waste so much time on a level they can’t seem to beat? Well, it’s … Continue reading →

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Universal Basic Income Can Provide a Temporary Fix

Posted on June 1, 2023 by greg

Determinants of health reflect underlying forces that are at work in the subsequent development of disease. The World Health Organization has declared poverty to be the single largest determinant of health. Poverty can and does lead to illness (due to … Continue reading →

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How to Respond to Monopolies Today

Posted on May 15, 2023 by greg

Since the beginning of the Republic, Americans have used antimonopoly policy not only to preserve market competition, but to preserve the economic opportunity of the individual citizen and to guarantee that power and property would not become concentrated in the … Continue reading →

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How to Address Inequities in the Era Woke Capitalism

Posted on May 1, 2023 by greg

Social justice as a concept arose in the early 19th century during the Industrial Revolution and subsequent civil revolutions throughout Europe, which aimed to create more egalitarian societies and remedy capitalistic exploitation of human labor. Social justice refers to a … Continue reading →

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On the Relationship Between Truth and Power

Posted on April 15, 2023 by greg

Michel Foucault observed: “we are subjected to the production of truth through power and we cannot exercise power except through the production of truth” (Foucault, 2003:93). Foucault argued that knowledge and power are intimately bound up. So much so, that … Continue reading →

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The Relationship Between Religion and Ideology

Posted on April 1, 2023 by greg

Both religion and ideology are sets of beliefs or ideas which try to explain how things work in the world and society and based on it create a set of rules people may follow. Both espouse world views that are … Continue reading →

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Disinformation and Disillusionment of Today’s Politics

Posted on March 2, 2023 by greg

With tax cuts, expanded opportunities for investment in low-wage economies and for speculation in financial markets and almost unlimited opportunities for luxury consumption, the top 1 per cent of income earners in the developed countries captured an ever-increasing share of … Continue reading →

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