Monday, May 27, 2027 (+ 4.5 billion)
I have been very concerned with the state of un-reason, unfairness and the lack of ethics (and their implications for humanity) on the part of most of the average persons I have encountered in my life (and in the world… in every country I have been to).
Consider this:
“…Science is exploding all around us. There is a phase change going on in the scientific revolution….”
What the author goes on to say is, that academics, experts and scientists in different fields are collaborating, communicating and merging their ideas in ways that reflect their awareness that all their concerns are interconnected… and:
“Over the course of the next forty years, science is poised to create more knowledge than humans have created in all of recorded history. How that knowledge will impact life and whether our society and our form of government will be able to withstand the rush, depends upon how we answer political questions we are currently struggling with. There is, unfortunately no similar phase change going on in our politics, and therein lies the rub. Can we manage the new science revolution to our best advantage, or will we be its unwilling victim?”
Shawn Lawrence Otto
from
Fool Me Twice: Fighting The Assault on Science in America, Rodale books, 2011,
Whenever the people are well-informed,
they can be trusted
with their
government.
– Thomas Jefferson
Primary Author of the Declaration of Independence (The document that inspired all the modern democracies in the world) and primary advocate for religious and individual human rights; governor, president, secretary of state and foreign ambassador; an architect, farmer, musician, polyglot, philosopher and unfortunately a slave owner and the president who initiated the removal of native peoples from the lands acquired in the Louisiana Purchase–who condemned the international slave trade and signed the law prohibiting slave trade continuance into America in
