What will it take to reduce or eliminate ecological deficits? The task is huge, but it does not necessarily involve high economic costs in all cases. Most ecological deficits arise …
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Opposition or Composition?
In social life the polarization about which there is so much talk today is not in an irreducible contrast of ideological positions, but rather a pathological way of negotiating and …
Read More »The concepts we lack
Unlike birds, human beings fly with roots. Part of the roots is in the concepts we have inherited to analyze or evaluate the world in which we live. Without them, …
Read More »Discrimination against people of African descent continues
Slavery dehumanized masters and slaves. Both lived slavery in a permanent syndrome of fear and revolt. To contain black people and apply violence against them, masters suppressed their sense of …
Read More »Are we afraid of thinking?
Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth—more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established …
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