Jean Sibelius – Finlandia Clouds 10 The Power Trip By James Clair Lewis People who do not have power over their own selfish desires, feel the lack within themselves, which they try to satisfy by obtaining power over other people. It never works. Instead of becoming happy, their thirst for power and control consumes them, […]
Echoes of Distant Idealism You’re probably familiar with multi-axis interpretations of an individual’s take on reality. I think my very first exposure to this easily understood plotting of attitudes and impacts came from the old game Dungeons and Dragons. Who here remembers this graph? The idea is simple. You take two continuums, two spectrums […]
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It’s Name That Animal time again! This is the second edition. The rules are simple. No googling! Don’t bother looking at the names of the image files, I’ve changed them. My first thought was to give you guys this creature as it was in the news recently… Can you name it? Then I thought since […]
Wow. It’s 9 PM and it isn’t even really “dusk” yet outside. What a wonderful day. If a day is going to be the longest one of the whole year, it should be a good one. Today definitely was a good one. Let me tell you about it… It started out so organized. See, knowing […]
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Charlie Chaplin remix from The Great Dictator The Gaian Dragon The Road to Mecca The Power of the Individual When I was 14 in 1965, VicePresident Hubert Humphrey spoke at the University of Santa Clara campus, so I walked over to hear what he had to say. I applauded his statements on Civil Rights, and […]
Phil Ochs – I Ain’t Marchin’ Anymore The Gaian Dragon Here are a set of articles I’ve written about Political Solutions. We can only get so far, when we discuss political problems. In discussing Solutions we begin to make them happen The Power of the Individual The Economy of Prosperity The Single Tax System The […]
Hamza al-Khateeb used to love it when the rains came to his small corner of southern Syria, filling up the farmers’ irrigation channels enough so that he and the other children could jump in and swim. But the drought of the last few years had left the 13-year-old without the fun of his favourite pool. […]
