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The Art of Living Is Loving
Artificial intelligence a game-changer was aired on 60 Minutes June 25, 2017. A key concern, if we reach ‘artificially intelligent life’ is, will it be benevolent? How to program benevolence into...
View ArticleThe re-valuing of everything
I recently discovered David Harvey’s podcasts. In this one David Harvey’s Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: The Value of Everything (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32m7kcv08q8) he uses Mariana Mazzucato’s...
View ArticleAfghanistan’s Art of the Deal
Once a teacher always one, I sense is true. In wondering the other day how Mr. Barney my 1960 high school history teacher would be reaching us with today’s technology I came across a two-part YouTube...
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An Answer Lies In Crisis – What Covid-19 Pandemic Is Telling Us
Fannie and I arrived in Taiwan on January 15 returning to her home for the Chinese New Year Celebration. The airport was abuzz with people returning to their ancestral homes for this important holiday....
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High Anxieties – The Mathematics of Chaos
I recently posted “An Answer Lies In Crisis – What Covid-19 Pandemic Is Telling Us”, and then sensed the Maslowian Self-Actualization Need to continue my anxiety attacks by re-watching the BBC...
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Escape From Evil
I read this essay British Writer Pens The Best Description Of Trump I’ve Read by Britisher Nate White a few days ago and woke this morning thinking this is a good description of evil. This description...
View ArticleThomas Sowell Secretary of Treasury
Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robertson a Production of The Hoover Institute’s sessions with Thomas Sowell are thought-provoking! Sowell’s well-thought argument should have been adopted by the...
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The Mathematical Challenge to Darwin and Wallace
Time Magazine since February’s outbreak of Covid-19 has often had images of President Trump wearing a medical mask. The latest issue May 25 has a faceless, yellow hair, yelling mouth, with a mask of...
View ArticleDeeper Than A Few Bad Apples
I just checked the news to see what had “bumped in the night” regarding the George Floyd protests nationwide and watched several news clips using the words “A Few Bad Apples in the Police” to explain...
View ArticleGeneral James Mattis Defending The United States
James Mattis Denounces President Trump Describes Him as a threat to the Constitution was written by Jeffrey Goldberg, appeared in The Atlantic on June 3, 2020, and is the former defense secretary...
View ArticleHow to Fail at Almost Everything
I recently had an experience with someone suggesting my life has been a failure. This automatically triggered reflective thinking accessing Abraham Maslow’s concept of self-actualization. I paused...
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Dao Te Ching Chapter 8
I have been away from blogging on the Dao de Ching but not from studying its chapters. It is time for me to resume sharing my processes of reading, reflecting, thinking, and writing about life as it...
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Dao de Ching Chapter 9
To hold things and to be proud of them is not as good as not to have them, Because if one insists on an extreme, that extreme will not dwell long. When a room is full of precious things, one will never...
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The I Ching on the 2020 Presidential Election – Part 1 Hexagram 13
11/2/2020 9:07 pm. I have been listening to the MSNBC news shows and decided to ask the I Ching in the morning this question: What of the U.S. Presidential Election? In the night (12:30...
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The I Ching on the 2020 Presidential Election – Part 2 Hexagram 56
The I Ching’s response to the question “What of the US Presidential Election?” was Hexagram 13 and its changing lines give us Hexagram 56. T’ung Jen / Fellowship with Men. Changing lines are not part...
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Health and Self-Actualization
On 7/27/2017 5:40 AM I began drafting this Blog entry to my physician Stephen C MD: Good afternoon Stephen, I enjoy visiting with you and always bring a book to read before you arrive for our...
View ArticleHerbert Marcuse Matinee – January 6, 2021
I published these clips before and feel on this day January 6, 2021, when the Electoral College of the US formally confirms President-elect Biden’s win, a time to reconsider what Herbert Marcuse...
View ArticleThe Spirit of Grandiosity and The Dynamics of Evil
We watched the attack on the White House, then live US House and Senate sessions on the ‘Trump Tragedy’, then watched Nancy Pelosi’s news briefing, where we witnessed someone fearing the remaining...
View ArticleThe Empathic Civilization
I started writing this Empathic Civilization Blog entry several years ago and for some reason did not complete it. When it began, we were watching politicians, reporters, and experts talking about the...
View ArticleFacing The Dragon Of Grandiosity
I re-visited the blog Integral Spirituality: No Boundaries posted on July 27, 2016 and realized that its theme is still unfolding. I sent my friend Ubaldo, a psychoanalyst, this Blog post to get a...
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