October 12, 2004 |
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Rather than a battle between a secular and a religious vision, the conclusion I’ve arrived at after more listening, reading, and digesting than I care to admit, is that we’re smack dab in the middle of a large-scale, high-stakes battle between the two fundamental and competing philosophies of American society: Democracy and Capitalism.
July 29, 2004 |
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How come there’s nothing funny in the future? Is it that the writers can’t come up with any good jokes or is that the path we’re on is really that destructive and serious?
July 20, 2004 |
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Thirty-five years ago today that vision came to fruition. Thirty-five years ago today the modern American nation made it’s greatest contribution to mankind; it’s most shining moment. Thirty-five years ago today, men from Earth walked on the moon.
November 15, 2003 |
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At the most fundamental level all religions express a philosophy of how we should live while politics provides the mechanism for determining which philosophy will ultimately be concretized as practice. Therefore when we speak of political matters it is invariably a proxy for a more elemental conversation which is rarely explicit or public.
September 11, 2003 |
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The crashing airplanes, the flying bodies, these are the images of action, decision, control. Photographs of the doomed however, they are the images of terrorism: vulnerability, fear, confusion. They are however, also the images of humanity, capturing as they do the capacity for hope.
August 20, 2003 |
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By refusing to acknowledge and adequately counter capitalism’s inherent bias towards short-term gain, we are driving ourselves towards an increasingly unstable, unsustainable, and impoverished future.
July 11, 2003 |
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Accodring to the latest census data, San Francisco shed some 12,000 citizens between July 2001 and July 2002. Thank goodness.
