“What was that? A serious prediction of things to come, or an outburst of wishful thinking? Was it a thoughtful proposal of a realistic plan of action, or a misguided fantasy that defies common sense?” – The Coming Global Coalescence, Afterword “This book is not a novel. Nor is it nonfiction. In the literary world, […]
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THE FINANCCIAL TIMES EXAMINES CAPITALISM’S CRISIS – PART TWO
“Imagine a violent solar flare that washes over our planet with a powerful electromagnetic cloud and, in a nanosecond, wipes clean all computer records: checking accounts, savings accounts, credit cards, tax bills, loans, mortgages, pension funds, contracts, investments, insurance polices. All gone. Wiped out in the blink of an eye. Because of the financial meltdown, […]
THE FINANCIAL TIMES EXAMINES CAPITALISM’S CRISIS – PART ONE
“Money is not a force of nature. It is a concept, an idea, a figment of the human imagination. And it is real only to the extent that we allow it to rule our lives and our relationships with one another.” — The Coming Global Coalescence, page 4, print edition Inasmuch as the global financial […]
PITY THE POOR DOCTORS
I recently received an email from a friend who forwarded the following rant from a doctor: “Dear Mr. President: During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and […]
REMEMBERING MARTIN LUTHER KING
On this day when we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King and mourn his death, it is at once encouraging that so much progress has been made in terms of racial discrimination and disheartening to realize that so much more remains to be done. 1968 was a traumatic year in many respects, but for […]
TO REFORM OR TO REPLACE: THAT IS THE QUESTION
To reform, or to replace–that is the question:Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous greed and political control, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them. The worldwide movement toward the social coalescence of the human family was recently struck by a […]
WHICH WAY FOR THE “OCCUPY” MOVEMENT?
John Heilemann, writing in the December 5 issue of NEW YORK magazine, offers an excellent account of the differences among the leaders of the ‘leaderless’ movement called Occupy Wall Street, or OWS, which occupied Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park for several weeks before being forcefully removed by the New York City Police Department. Heilemann observes that the […]