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Understanding Cruelty is Part the Political System

Posted on September 1, 2021 by greg

The “American Dream” has always been about the prospect of success, but 100 years ago, the phrase meant the opposite of what it does now. The original “American Dream” was not a dream of individual wealth; it was a dream … Continue reading →

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The Paradigm Shift Created by the COVID Pandemic

Posted on August 15, 2021 by greg

A paradigm is our perception of reality, our view of the world. It is our interpretation of events based on previous teaching we have received. When physicist Thomas Kuhn introduced the concept in 1962 he wanted people to think of … Continue reading →

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To create change: question everything, but separate skepticism from nihilism

Posted on August 1, 2021 by greg

Skepticism is a critical attitude that treats every claim to truth as up for debate. A skeptical attitude is doubt as to the truth of something. It’s an approach that goes beyond just demanding evidence and, instead, questions the evidence … Continue reading →

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The Middle Class Can Counter Today’s Zero-sum Game

Posted on July 15, 2021 by greg

The phrase the end of history was first used by French philosopher and mathematician Antoine Augustin Cournot in 1861 “to refer to the end of the historical dynamic with the perfection of civil society”. The disintegration of the former Soviet … Continue reading →

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On the Waning of Democracy in America

Posted on July 1, 2021 by greg

In a democracy every citizen has certain basic rights that the state cannot take away from them. In political philosophy, the phrase consent of the governed refers to the idea that a government’s legitimacy and moral right to use state … Continue reading →

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The Urgent Need to Investigate Chronic Dementia

Posted on June 15, 2021 by greg

In the 17th century, even though peasants were strong, healthy and robust, they wanted to emulate the powerful and elite and be “refined” like the rich. This was the milieu in which processed food was born and glorified. Sugar had … Continue reading →

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The Lie Behind Unbridled Capitalism

Posted on June 1, 2021 by greg

Friedrich Nietzsche observed, “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” Even what we believe we see with our own eyes is made up from memory. When referring to blind spots in our … Continue reading →

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The Deception Behind the Existential Threats to American Democracy

Posted on May 15, 2021 by greg

Trump was tolerated by Republican elites in the belief that “norms” were corrupt and needed to be destroyed. Trump supposedly failed because he lacked the discipline to target his creative/destructive tendencies effectively. In addition, he lacked advisors with the insight … Continue reading →

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Addiction: a Chronic Disease Requiring a Community Response

Posted on May 1, 2021 by greg

Health care approaches for chronic conditions include primary and secondary prevention, acute episodic interventions, and expansion of the care circle to recognize the role of caregivers and family. People with chronic conditions require care that is as seamless as possible … Continue reading →

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A Wake-up Call on Community Pneumonia

Posted on April 20, 2021 by greg

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which presents as pneumonia, was first discovered in Asia in February 2003. The outbreak lasted approximately six months as the disease spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and … Continue reading →

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