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Contributions or Profits? You Choose.
Giving and contributing to society is seen by all great religions as a central human desire. Psychologists are beginning to agree. We are genuinely altruistic and we have a need to help others. This is a logical expected characteristic of a social animal but today’s society and business practices are going against it. The greed […]
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About People
I was recently reading some books about the pros and cons of giving aid to alleviate deep poverty. The books contained entertaining arguments on the subject, but what I found appalling is the way the authors talked about poor people of the world as if they were a special race different from you and I. […]
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A Perspective on Violence
Close to forty years ago, I had the privilege to meet a man who worked for the Algerian Telecommunication Ministry and to spend two weeks with him as an interpreter for a training program he was attending. He was a small man in his mid-forties, built like a professional cyclist, somewhat reserved, almost shy, but […]
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An Historical Perspective on Today
This is a follow-up on the post “On The Collapse of Civilizations” which shows that we might be driving towards the collapse of our own civilization. This post presents an additional driving factor to the collapse. Today one of the main protector of our civilization has been the use of the media concentrated in the […]
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I Am Therefore I Think or Why French People May Appear Arrogant.
“You make a statement one day then you contradict it the next day!” My daughter said to me the other day: The old “I think” is back. After living in the US for about 8 years, I suddenly realized I was making statements all the time because I did not include “I think” in everything […]
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On The Collapse of Civilizations
I really like Ronald White concept of the pyramid described in “A Short History of Progress”. Population distributions in term of wealth and power tend to evolve from egalitarian to a pyramid where the wealthiest and most powerful are on top and the poorest and least powerful are at the bottom. The top relies on […]
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Imagination
Imagination is the root of creation or rather discovery because we do not create, we discover. True creation is not for humans, building is for humans and there is a huge difference between building and creating. So, in human life, there is building and discovering. When we build, we assemble pieces that have been discovered. […]
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