The working title for the next book I am working on is called Restoring Balance. My first book, Systems out of Balance, was a referential guide for how our social systems work and how misinformation affects that. Restoring Balance will be more of an inspirational guide and much shorter in length. I will post chapters [...]
I’ll be away on vacation until the beginning of March. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this music video from The Bards of Balance.
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Last week I made a couple entries regarding the conditions of Haiti and the influence of our government on the western hemisphere. This would seem to be leading up to a big plea for giving generously to Haiti. Well, yes and no.
Despite some entrenched misconceptions to the contrary, the United States is not all that [...]
A previous series on The Middle Class Forum was titled “Are We Naturally Bad?” In that series and others I present evidence that we are not inherently bad, rather, we are inherently an altruistic species operating in systems that make us bad. This does not mean we were all born angels. We were all born [...]
Continue reading about Restoring Cultural Balance – Knowing Who We Are
I organized my book Systems out of Balance to reflect the layers of problems we face. On the surface are economic problems, but underneath that surface are political problems, and underneath that are cultural problems. Just so, this series on restoring balance follows a similar sequence. Economic solutions are the most easily envisioned, but out [...]
Continue reading about Restoring Cultural Balance – Independence over Indulgence
In the last entry I described the Supreme Court as being the most paternal branch of government, with jurisprudence affected by entrenched relationships to wealth and power elites. Yet even if we were to minimize the paternal impact of the Supreme Court we still have a government that has trended steadily towards paternalism since its [...]
Continue reading about Restoring Political Balance – Federation
The one place where you most expect wisdom from government is where authoritarianism has its greatest stranglehold. Supreme Court Justices are nominated for life through party politics. They overwhelmingly represent wealth and power elites, with corporate lawyers in the lead. They establish jurisprudence through arbitrary justifications couched in obtuse legal dogma. Restoring political balance will [...]
Continue reading about Restoring Political Balance – Wise Jurisprudence
Our political system at the federal and state levels features elected officials that are politicians rather than public servants. As politicians their job is to figure out what is best for us, as caring paternal agents, and then practice the politics of implementing the decisions they make. That is the best case scenario. As we [...]
Continue reading about Restoring Political Balance – Public Service
Originally this was intended to be a series on establishing a priori criteria for evaluating Presidents, rather than cherry-picking whatever information possible to reinforce established ideologies. Frankly, I thought the series was tanking. I will mention again that blogging is not the same as writing my book, Systems out of Balance. The book was a [...]
Recently I have posted data to show that some significant changes to our economy were initiated in the seventies. One was the accelerated relative growth of businesses producing capital; the other was the accelearted growth of businesses producing services. Something significant must have occurred in the seventies that contributed to these significant changes. The cause [...]
