Tag: health
SUPERFLUOUS STANDARD OF VIOLENCE
We might consider, while contemplating increasing poor mental health in the USA of individuals, the inane state of capitalistic hierarchical Establishment aggression and violence in its varied forms.
MENTAL HEALTH ON THE MORTAL PLANE
The value of not knowing can be found in Buddhism. This mindset generated ideas millennia ago that suggests quantum physics. That this may be the closing of the circle isn’t an unknown concept in some spiritual and scientific areas. Some people believe that science and religion must be connected. (“Must” as in logically are, not as in hierarchically prescribed)
DEFINE WAR CRIME
Is it only a war if the destruction is against foreign governments, or does it include humanity and nature as the targets?
COOPERATION OR COMPETITION?
The concept that “we’re only human” can be used as an excuse or an inspiration. The system of capitalism has been described as offering the greatest good to the most people. This may be true until it isn’t.
EMOTIONAL MATURITY
The point is made that the US leadership might have served the US better by understanding Afghanistan, now that the Taliban is back in control……as though they ever weren’t. The Frontline guest Martin Smith was a guest on C-Span, and also intimated that Afghanistan may not be the only misunderstood nation into which deluded US leaders are forcing “Western values”. And so goes American chauvinism.
GROWTH MAKES US POORER
A welcome reminder that we may wish to consider our world from different viewpoints, just as a practice in intellectual honesty.
GUNS AND CITIZENS UNITED
Is Citizens United the uniting factor in the decline suspected in the USA, of meaningful values? In other words, is corruption becoming apparent.?
WESTERN VALUES
C–span this morning seemed to be a litany of episodes of predatory behavior from hierarchical Establishment with the liability placed upon We The People. This seems to be “running government like a business” which on a continuum is organized crime.
MEDIA CHERRY-PICKS INFO….AKA ADVERTISING
The news story of the day seems to be that MSM is limited on FACTual news reports. Aside from the so-predictable FOX so-called story about obfuscation for ad dollars, what else is new?
HARM OF CHAUVINISM
American chauvinism that chooses to define the world according to US views seems self-indulgence.
NATIONALIZE RISK AND PRIVATIZE PROFIT
Somehow it feels like corruption when activists are charged under RICO laws, while corporate so-called accident risk is nationalized and profits are privatized.
FARM WORKERS AND DENIAL
NYS has passed legislation that would mandate overtime pay for farm workers after 40-hours-per week. Some local lawmakers have expressed concern that lack of understanding about the erratic time schedules in farm work will place undue burdens upon farm employers.
DEFINE HEALTH
The Green Party conversations attempt an exchange between people with differing views in a clear exchange of ideas.
