I no longer watch corporate media news, but I was informed about some talking heads out there claiming Haiti is getting what they deserved. That is why I don’t watch corporate media news. I don’t care if those pundits came from one of the most respected think tanks, those are the most dangerous ones for [...]
I have picked on “free market libertarian” information providers more than any others, more than “liberal” information providers and, for that matter, more than “conservative” information providers. Since people tend to lump in “conservative” and “free market libertarian” together one might assume a liberal bias on my part. Let me first concede that I do [...]
I am not finished with revamping my web log for the post publishing phase of Systems out of Balance, yet I can’t resist tackling what I consider the most fundamental question we have to address for determining how our economic, political and cultural systems should function: Are we naturally bad?
I will tackle this question in [...]
In the case I made for offering Israel even greater protections if she compromises on one of two goals, or withdrawing protections if she compromises on neither, I made a claim that I was an empiricist. That should not surprise you if you have been visiting The Middle Class Forum for awhile. What may be [...]
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As I mention occasionally, and as I have posted in the upper right hand corner of this blog, people who wish to comment need to leave their name and residence. I regret when people offer substantive responses to an entry on The Middle Class Forum and I can’t post them because of this rule. The [...]
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With apologies to world historians who specialize in this area, and who have more elaborate information and ideas on the matter, I would place the history of globalism into three eras: prehistoric; civilized; and modern.
In the prehistoric era social bands were the dominant grouping of humans. They started in Africa but diffused throughout the globe. [...]
OK. I should have paid more attention to a comment made at the beginning of this series that the quote “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” by Thomas Hobbes was prefaced by “life of man.” Hobbes was describing what the natural condition of humans were like, but it makes more sense to talk about short [...]
The quote by Thomas Hobbes implying that the natural condition of man was “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” came at the end of a long run-on sentence/paragraph that began with referring to the warlike nature of humans. Thus, there is really no doubt that Hobbes thought humans were naturally violent, and that will become [...]
Thomas Hobbes wrote that, without some of the advantages provided by a nation state, the natural condition of man is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” This entry focuses on the term “nasty.” I take some license with all the terms to focus the meaning on particular misconceptions about the natural life of early foraging [...]
This series uses a quote from Thomas Hobbes, referring to the natural condition (or life) of mankind as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short” as a foil for addressing some misconceptions about natural humans that are hangovers from the Enlightenment. I will take some license here in the use of the word “poor.” Hobbes probably [...]
