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E.O. Wilson invents Social Evolution…Why NATO laughs in our faces…
The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson brought us the science of Sociobiology in the 1970′s, which helped explain altruism in animals. Why would ants sacrifice themselves as workers when they don’t reproduce? Because “eusocial kin selection” has helped them get shared genes into the next generation.
His new theory of social evolution expands that idea beyond the individual to the colony level, which then becomes the fundamental evolutionary unit. You sink or swim as a function of your culture, a relatively rare model adopted by an estimated 2 to 3% of species. OK, so far so good.
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Humanism
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A philosopher revives an ancient and noble philosophy that inspires our species, but alienates the military.
Humanists Could Use Jesuits vs Atheism
Two venerable institutions, the once powerful Jesuit order and the noble philosophy of Humanism are facing the emergence of the New Atheism, and both are suffering.
Obama Might Be Humanist, Pro-UN
With his Nobel Peace Prize came expectations of more than troop increases. Or is the Pentagon’s grip unbreakable?
Humanism Destined for Species Governance
The proper study of mankind is Man. Religious acrimony must be relegated to our past.
Humanism Must Be Inclusive of All Religions
Humanism must become our species advocate and defender, agnostic of private religious beliefs, and act as our responsible watchdog and arbiter.
Features
Humanism, Kurtz confront New Atheism Concerned that his positive vision of humanism is being threatened and perhaps eclipsed with a new brand of acerbic atheism, Paul Kurtz has drafted and released just this week a new “Neo-Humanist Statement of Secular Values and Principles.”
Drug Counselors Replace Police, Fund Hospitals The new policy was implemented to reduce the policing, prison, theft and related costs of addiction, while removing drugs as the prime profit center for organized crime. Sales of the drugs to its patients allow the agency to offset its own costs, and some of the country’s health care budget as well.
UN Confirms Relocation to Singapore Recommending Singapore as the proposed new venue, with a target for completion of the new headquarters of August 2015.
The Net Scam You Can Join Stepping on the scam artists, while supporting good publications and writers, is a most fitting finale to a page well taken. No doubt they’ll figure it out someday– in the meantime enjoy the issue!
Philosophy trumps Militarism – Dutch Nukes A revealing article in Time Magazine highlights the hypocrisy around the “Iran Crisis”, during which Iran has been relentlessly hounded by Western nuclear nations on suspicions that it too is developing nuclear weapons, while NATO countries have been secretly harboring them for decades.
Five Things the US Press Won’t Discuss Military spending, nuclear weapons (ours), world government, metrification, 10:1 wage disparity are all subjects that western editors stay clear of.
Peacekeeping Avoids Wars A standing rapid reaction force, long advocated by former secretary general Kofi Annan, may be the best solution. Not only would it eliminate the need to piece together a last-minute contingent in an emergency, it would no doubt attract bright and ambitious soldiers well-trained for peacekeeping.
The True Cost of Nuclear Weapons These nuclear weapons program expenditures impact every community — from lost opportunities of spending these dollars on other priorities to the constant threat faced by these weapon systems.
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