Let’s Talk About Guns
Columbine, Orlando, Sandy Hook, Parkland, Buffalo, Uvalde…where does it end? Will America’s “frontiersman” myth spread to other societies, especially those where democracy is in trouble? Currently, there is a gun for every resident of the United States, and that is unusable. However, the tensions between Rightists and Leftists are not limited to the United States. […]
Numbers Too Big To Ignore
The continued assault on Women’s Rights leaves many questions… Sexual behavior, in general, and the sexual behavior of women, in particular, is and will be a factor in all aspects of the Anthropocene. Will we see a overt suppression of the rights of women to have sex outside of agreed upon contexts, for example? Will […]
You Don’t Own Me!
Leslie Gore’s megahit, “You Don’t Own Me,” has been viewed more than 60,000,000 times on YouTube. Here’s some of her advice many parents ought to take to heart: You don’t own me I’m not just one of your many toys Don’t tell me what to do Don’t tell me what to say Don’t put me […]
The Zombie Named Dixie
White supremacy is the Confederacy’s blazingly debilitating hangover. Let’s find a cure! Racial and ethnic discrimination and hatred are, unfortunately, worldwide phenomena. A particularly virulent strain of white supremacy exists in the United States where a horrific civil war took the lives of approximately 23% of the white male population aged 20-24 living in the […]
Used to Be Hunted as Prey
“It wasn’t that long ago that we used to hunt them as prey.” An urbane and well-educated 70-year-old white man I know said this to me recently when we were discussing the challenge many men face in their attempts to understand women. Freud famously and notoriously commented on this topic asking, “What does a woman […]
Replace the Aristocracy with the Anthrocracy
The death of Elizabeth has gotten me to think about the validity of aristocracy continuing to exist as we move deeper into the era where technology advances in a variety of directions with unknown consequences and traditional mores continue to come under pressure. Signposts back to the past are becoming more difficult to see, even […]
Do Say Gay
It is difficult to determine the size of the gay population in Florida because homosexuality is so stringently stigmatized here. Estimates hover around 5%. The way this demographic is treated reminds me of life in Kentucky in the 1950s, where I grew up. The state’s 10% Black citizens were strictly segregated. As a white suburbanite, […]
Gun Violence in America
“Voting is a non-violent way to deal with the expanse of violence we’re seeing in our body politic.” Speaking on behalf of the Elders for Sound Democracy group…here’s the clip.
Our Colorful Tapestry
From the incessantly tragic and pathetic number of race-based crimes on a worldwide basis, skin color makes a huge difference to a lot of folks. The scope of intolerance and the willingness of people to lie about their prejudice is an important subject, but not my concentration here. Reality check from the Anthropocene: Genetically, race […]