Skip to content

Tag: culture and society

Minority Rules

Isn’t it strange that our laws and statutes are enacted to allegedly protect the majority from the vastly less significant minority — primarily those of a criminal propensity or distorted character — who would engage in or profit from exploiting an otherwise open system of commerce, education and governance?

Confluence

We’re at a stage in our human journey where spirituality (consciousness) and technology are evolving and emerging at comparable, concurrent rates — and it seems as if it’s somewhat of a competition, depending on how you look at it.

Defensive Strategy

The armed and police forces may never be completely dismantled or discontinued in our societies. Yet, with every generation, we have the opportunity to make fundamental shifts in the operating mechanisms, underlying values, and practiced paradigms as new men, women, and likely robots and androids enlist or are introduced into the various peacekeeping services, forces, fleets, and organizations.

What the world needs…

It’s one of the most overused phrases in modern times. However, what “the world needs,” truly, is for us to get clear on what it is we even mean when we say “world”. Do you mean all of humanity? The earth? Both? The Western world? The third? Whose world are we referring to with our grandiose sentiments? And how the hell do we get off speaking as if we have any clue about what the world needs?

A Case for A.I. – Beyond “Smart” Inanity

In this age of big data, it seems evident that the only way to get truthful, impartial information—synthesized, analyzed, and collated from all across the world, inclusive of all gathered information since we started doing so, regardless of language, agenda, dogma, bias, borders, politics, or budget—will be through employing the natural evolution of said data: A.I.