Archive for the 'humanist' Category

rules of humanism

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Bored? Skeptic? Tired? Here is a tonic sketch of what a healthy humanist human should aim for, IMO:
Modify your country’s constitution so that it incorporates the following principles:

the end of all the evils principle

The total wealth of any human should be limited, at any moment, to a lifetime of average wages.
This will not affect about […]

now

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Blue Sunday Morning from Out Of Focus (1971) by Out Of Focus. wish u were there…

inclusive democracy

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Just when I was thinking I kinda nailed it down with the concepts of humanist economy and limited wealth, transparent administration etc., I found a much more refined model of society called inclusive democracy. If you’re questioning the current state of affairs around you, and wish to do your best to fix the problems, this […]

clinical insanity and clinical stupidity

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

To define the clinical insanity, I need to define what is a lifetime of average wages: if the average wage in your country is, say, 1000 units, then a lifetime of average wages means about 100 years multiplied with 12 months multiplied with 1000 units, that is, about a million (1.000.000) units. If you’d have […]

George and God

Friday, June 27th, 2008

To all my friends, here’s a relevant short presentation of George Carlin, written by John Nichols. Well, George Carlin has already become a part of me, among others.
By the way, if we can’t seem to make up our mind if God exists or not, let’s settle some minor issues first, maybe that will give us […]

wars and cars

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

If you drive a car daily, you must know that the war in Iraq has been performed especially for you (surely there’s corporate profit involved, but that profit wouldn’t be possible without your ignorant help). This war is starting to cover some of those expenses. It is the long worked-for solution to correct back the […]

patriotism

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

I’ve waited for a long time for the itemized list of the suburbanite patriot, and now I found it.
I read a nice piece on Jay Leno’s patriotism, which reproduces that list.
I’ll touch each one of those items below (read that list first, I won’t copy it here):

A. If you have electricity and running water, you […]

now

Friday, June 20th, 2008

part VI, from The Dark Side of the Moog 8 (Careful with the AKS, Peter) (1999), by Pete Namlook and Klaus Schulze . Damn they’re good. Wish you were there.

voting in capitalism

Monday, June 16th, 2008

I learned that 80% of the North-American voting system is based on closed software and private technology secrets, that is, the technology is not open to inspection by the public, the voters; not even by the public administration (for detailed information on these issues, check blackboxvoting.org).
This is the ultimate proof of the misery of the […]

skepticism - optimism

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Skepticism has nothing intellectual about it. Criticism does. Skepticism, if not supported by criticism, is just a cover for absence, it is an apparently academic dressing for ignorance, it’s also a cover for those who want, because of some shortsightedness, to see a certain idea or action fail.
I’ve seen many people in the socialist era […]