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On the Gender Frontier
For thousands of years, the leadership of almost every organized hierarchy in civilization, including government, commerce and religion, has been almost exclusively male. There’s no way to determine precisely how men came to rule the world, but they did and they do. Female divinity was driven from shared eminence in the Western world by around…
The Doomsday Clock and Human Leadership
For dozens of centuries the aristocracy mocked and doubted the common people’s capacity to lead. Then came “We hold these truths to be self-evident … all men are created equal … they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights … among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” If you believe these words, then you own responsibility for human leadership now.
Pendant Is Historic Not Prehistoric
Human artifacts from 25,000 years ago were unimaginable until recently. History is the primary source of more accurate information about human nature. In studying it we find the roots of humanity’s strengths and weaknesses in order to build upon those strengths and defuse the self-destructive weaknesses. From the Deccan Herald, San Sebastian, Spain, Aug. 11,…
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Government and civilization go hand in hand. The storehouses in biblical Egypt were a government project.
Shrinking government has its downsides. Waiting longer for services is one of them.
Absorbing New Information
Human capacity to recognize, absorb and integrate new information about our history is limited, because we are rightfully preoccupied with the here and now; nervous about new information, which may undermine details of the history we believe in; unfamiliar with the methodologies used to verify the information’s accuracy; and uncertain that information about the long-term…