A Life, in Words and Pictures
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The Fall and Rise of Barbarism Part 3
Posted on September 4th, 2009 No commentsIt does seem clear that there is a direction in history, with certain undeniable rules: Power always corrupts, always. When Europe unites, there will be a war. When major empires crumble, they leave vacuums of power that create a period of chaos. Scientific advances both tend to extend our lives, but also often ultimately get appropriated into more exciting ways of ending lives. And, as I can’t bring myself to be any form of existentialist, I must assume that these rules somehow relate to a macro being played out that with some eventual finish line. There is an end to the game, somewhere, at some time. Just as the rhyming stanzas of a poem progress the story, and lead to its conclusion, and ultimate point, so does human history.
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The Fall and Rise of Barbarism Part 2
Posted on September 1st, 2009 No commentsIt is our own American meme to believe that ignorant and dangerous ideas will die out as science and enlightenment evangelizes our globe. The problem is that as knowledge moves increasingly faster in this Information Age, it seems that the growth of these intellectual/spiritual/societal landmines is also accelerating. Before I get comments about the state of world education, let me explain myself a bit further.
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