Wrong Game

Instead of avoiding the population cliff, we're playing a game of musical chairs to decide who will fall off last.

Reality-Plus

Faith in the unknown has to begin with plausibility in the light of the known.

Consistency

Christians who deny climate change because a few scientists disagree with it should stop being Christians because scholars have identified lies in the Bible.

Tautology

The ends don't justify the means, because the means define the ends.

Global Habitat

Everything about the world that you like and hate is all around you, especially in your back yard.

Meltdown

Like children who think their absentee parent will rush to the rescue if they get in trouble, we've been playing more and more dangerous games. Now they're blowing up in our faces.

Big Shots

Making money and staying principled is like playing Russian Roulette with a fully-loaded gun.

Precautionary Hope

One of these days, erring on the side of extreme caution may be the default approach to everything.  Assuming we live that long.

Flipside

Insatiable growth legitimizes unspeakable horror.

Republiclones

Republicans stopped being real Republicans in the 1990s, when they were apparently infected by some disease that made them crazy, ignorant, and hostile to the rest of humanity.

Preparation Time

If you're not getting ready to radically change your life, then you're either delusional or too busy to notice that the world may end if you don't.

Power Limit

People should have only as much power as they can exercise responsibly, which is typically one-third of what they think they can.

Choice

Creating a few winners is far less acceptable than enabling most people to be competent.

Capital Crimes

When personal power is more important than the health of a society (many of whose members you don't want to identify with anyway), then you can justify the most cruel of outcomes.

Gamechanger

With competition, a few people achieve excellence and everyone else is a loser.  With cooperation, everyone achieves competence and no one is a loser.

Brad's Blogs

You've probably noticed that I now have several blogs.

Idea Explorer, my first and favorite, is a venue for discussing ideas about how the world works, with an emphasis on their implications for the future of humanity, which I believe is very much in jeopardy.

Land of Conscience focuses on my own personal struggles with living a responsible life in our dysfunctional society, aimed at helping create a land shaped by highly developed conscience rather than the pursuit of personal power.

Brad's Pithy Comments captures random thoughts, some profound, others silly, usually taking the form of a rule or observation that either exaggerates how I'm feeling at the moment, or preserves a nugget of meaning I might explore in more detail in other venue.

Illusive Economics

The more complex the transaction, the cheaper it is to deceive than to deliver.

Test Plan

Acceptance of reality over belief varies with how valid we consider the act of testing.

Beckotopia

When dumb becomes indistinguishable from smart, then we'll probably all be eating s#@!t.