It is not TV, nor films. It is a way of thinking. Political landscapes develop over time at different speeds and depend upon the prevailing thinking. That fluctuates across generations and is not a steady progression but it is a steady change, no generation is exactly as the one that precedes it. Many times this…
Tag: Human Rights
Human Rights
The odd thing about rights is that they don’t exist until we enshrine them in law – until, in other words, they are given. The history of the world, if there is such a thing, may be described as struggle for rights over the past ten thousand years. A struggle that continues to this day…
The Weakest Make Us Strong
I have always subscribed to the belief that had I been young in 1916 I would have been a Communist eager to free the serfs and build a just society in Russia and I would have been one of the first to be shot when Lenin destroyed the ideal by creating a dictatorship. I am…
Natural Motivations
People ask about motivation, and indeed look for motives, in all human activity. As if our desire to follow the rules of cause and effect must in some way contribute to why we think what we think, and how our thoughts contributes to our actions. It does after all make sense for a rational animal….
Coping With Success
You have seen the headlines. So many celebrities die young or fall from fame and end up penniless and you read their stories to find out if it was a character fault, corrupt agents, disinterested promoters or bad luck. Success and fame, and success without fame, brings with it challenges just like any other path…
Human Rights
We give them to ourselves. We decide what we consider helps us get along with each other, and then we make it a right. This also keeps us all aiming for similar things and working in a more or less culturally linear fashion. Then, when someone upsets us, we can loudly proclaim that we have…