The right of the individual and or their community/polis/city-state to self governance. Whoops, a contradiction immediately arises; whose rights are supreme, the individual or the State?
Who can say? Did we take birth according to some pre-ordained arrangement or just a completely random occurrence and we have to make the best use of a bad bargain? After all, we all perish sooner or later so do we cash in our chips now or bank them for some supposed future destination?
Perhaps our greatest common desire is the need to belong. A common ideology, a religion or non-religion, a country, a community, a family, a sports team, and on and on. We want and need some identifiable common ground…
Organisms are born, grow, maintain, dwindle and die as simply as that. However, enjoying the unimaginable rarity of human life, is this all that we do, just live and die?
Easy to say, hard to figure out. Physical suffering is obvious, but loneliness, psychological and emotional suffering is not always so apparent…
Kind humans is the understanding. Confucius opined that the vast majority of people who saw a child playing on the edge of a well would immediately find the guardian or lift the child down from the danger…
The Classical period symptomized by faith. The Modern Age symptomized by reason or science. Post-Modernity balancing faith and reason to have a more civil and just existence…
Some of the last stinging words from my first guru, my mother Rita; a teacher, an avid reader, a Gold Life Master duplicate bridge player, a self-made millionaire on the stock market and my most valued supporter…
Undoubtedly one desire we all fervently share. A desire that we will join ranks over and ultimately die for in order to obtain and sustain…
In the Western/European world, the advent of the printing press in about 1440 was a game changer…