THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART IV Chapter 4: Political Limits: The Crisis of International Political Will (Cont.) The unperceived imperatives The UN would be the obvious instrument for defining global goals and coordinating the policies required for their achievement …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART 1II Chapter 4: The Second Lesson of Life “Sangratan’s down in the pasture, I’ll just nip over and see him.” I approached the camp fire cautiously. He beckoned me to sit beside him. “These last few days I have begun to realize all that …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART II Chapter 2: All or Nothing or Something Else 1. George I spent the first 26 years of my life disliking animals. And then one day I became a person who loved dogs. I became a dog person. Sixty-three percent of American households have at …
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART II PART ONE: EXPERIENCES IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP (Cont) Another sensation seized us: curiosity. Cold curiosity predominated even in Auschwitz, somehow detaching the mind from its surroundings, which came to be regarded with a kind of objectivity. We were anxious to know …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART III Chapter 3: Cultural Limits. The Atrophy of Positive Vision Where there is no vision the people perish. (Proverbs 29:18) A tale of the power of positive vision In ancient Arabia, Mamun inherited …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART 1I Chapter 2: The Lessons of Life My plan was to get back as soon as possible to where I had last seen Sangratan. ‘You are looking for me, Mr Bill?’ I turned sharply, surprised to hear my name. There, at the side of …
Book Review Below you will find Part 9 of the review of Climate Change: Turning up the Heat by A. Barrie Pittock. These are some snippets: “Mitigation acts to reduce the upper bounds of projected warming, and thus to avoid the most extreme and damaging possibilities. Mitigation action taken now will have its most significant …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART I Chapter 1: Storytelling Americans choose to eat less than 0.25% of the known edible food on the planet. The fruits of family trees My grandmother survived the War barefoot, scavenging other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins, and the …
MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING VIKTOR E. FRANKL WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS 1959 PART I Preface by Gordon W. Allport, formerly a professor of psychology at Harvard University Dr. Frankl, author-psychiatrist, sometimes asks his patients who suffer from a multitude of torments great and small, “Why do you not commit suicide?” From their answers he can …
THE INNER LIMITS OF MANKIND HERETICAL REFLECTIONS ON TODAY’S VALUES, CULTURE AND POLITICS ERVIN LASZLO One World Publications 1989 PART II Chapter 2: Personal Limits: The Unrecognized Obsolescence of Modernism Before we set out to reform the world, we would do well to pause and see if we should reform ourselves. The inner limits …
