the percentage economy

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Some north-American economist or senator was telling a tale some time ago, that he was driving and had stopped at some place to buy some apples from a guy who was selling them on a side of the street. The economist/senator extracted the following moral from the exchange of money for apples: “there was a [...]

the humanist city

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

A city should be a place with a high density of people that can hear, two-three times per day, something like the (probably well-known) Islamic habit of call to prayer, sung from the highest sky-scraper downtown by a human voice. The song should remind us that we are humans in no hurry to anywhere and [...]

socialism (humanism)

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

My preferred definition of socialism/humanism sounds like this: it is recognized the fact that any human being is immersed in a society of human beings and that the society is part of, and completes, the human being’s definition, it is also recognized that any human society is immersed in nature and that the nature is [...]