Some years ago, people thought and worried about mediocrity taking over the world. That isn’t a worry any more, because inferiority is taking over. People act as if low quality and thoughtless behavior and expression are fine. Maybe it started with to movement to make all children feel good, so they all got trophies, and maybe some people think that equality should mean that no one can do a better job at anything than anyone else. Whatever started it and pushed it along, the election ...
So who really owns what is in the public domain, and I am referring to intellectual property? This should be a question, because no one (no individual or group of individuals) owns what is in the public domain. This came up because of a discussion of something that J. K. Rowling is writing in regard to North American wizarding. She takes some terms from American Indian spiritual practices, and some people seem to be very upset about that. It is my opinion that Rowling has as much right to use such ...
Recently, I made the mistake of joining an online discussion of religious exemptions to certain laws; discussions such as, whether a baker should be legally required to make a wedding cake for a gay couple getting married, if his religion finds that abhorrent. Or whether American Indians should be able to hunt eagles for their feathers as part of their religious activity. Even with people who are quite open-minded this is a potentially explosive subject. My opinion is that persons who have religious ...
We live in societies which are so different from each other. When we travel from one place to another there is the necessity to change our perspectives and loyalties to suit the situation in which we find ourselves. We cannot remain the same at all times. The result is that we begin to assume several identities to make ourselves feel comfortable and to fulfill our material and emotional needs. Should we then be denounced as wearers of masks and as hypocrits untrue to the culture ...
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