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2012/05/052012/05/06

Theophillis Goodyear: Will Durant and the Original Declaration of Interdependence

The Declaration of Interdependence was launched on March 22, 1945 at a gala event in Hollywood. http://www.willdurant.com/interdependence.htm Will Durant’s Declaration of Interdependence (PDF) http://www.willdurant.com/decenglish.pdf I’ve read Durant’s declaration over and over, and one phrase stands out. ” . . . bonded in the fellowship of danger . . . “ Each time I read it, …

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2012/04/162012/04/16

Theophillis Goodyear: Ethics, Psychology, and the Volunteer Army

During World War II, most men joined the service out of a sense of duty and a sense of right and wrong. During the Vietnam war, many men, but not all, were drafted and really didn’t want to be there. But they didn’t want to go to prison. But men tend to join today’s volunteer army …

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2012/04/152012/04/15

Theophillis Goodyear: US Veteran Suicides: 25 for each combat death, 18 a day every day year after year + Meta-RECAP

According to the New York Times, for every U.S. soldier killed on the Battlefield this year, 25 committed suicide. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/15/veteran-death-nation-shame_n_1427263.html The whole story: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/15/opinion/sunday/kristof-a-veterans-death-the-nations-shame.html?_r=1 A related topic: MDMA (known on the street as ecstasy) is showing promise as a psychotherapeutic tool for helping people with post traumatic stress disorder. Here’s some info from Vanderbilt University: …

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2012/04/14

Theophillis Goodyear: Reflections on Anarchy versus Open Source

The term anarchy is antithetical to Open Source, because anarchy, by strict definition at least, sees all forms of state organization as structures that need to be eliminated. Open Source, on the other hand, is about spreading control of these systems of organization to the general population, rather than leaving them concentrated in the hands of the …

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2012/04/052012/04/05

Theophillis Goodyear: The Tragedy of OWS – Failure to Act on Electoral Reform

If the OWS movement had only gotten behind the Electoral Reform Act of 2102, it could have worked to their advantage in a way they may not have considered. If they could have gotten Washington to take action and get behind the act, it would have been a foot in the door for the OWS …

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2012/04/03

Theophillis Goodyear: Eliot Benjamin on Madness as the Norm

R. D. Laing eventually decided that society is far more insane than any individual, and that the most insane among us are the ones who can adapt to this insanity without blinking and promote it as being perfectly normal. The most sane among us are those who are so sensitive that they wither under this …

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2012/03/15

Theophillis Goodyear: Fear, Blame, and Wisdom

Fear is the primal motivator. Hate is fear turned into blame. Blame chooses a target. The target becomes the scapegoat. And the scapegoat is punished for everything that was ever wrong with the entire universe, whether it’s their fault or not. And on a more positive note, free online book: The Scientific Approach to Wisdom