By: Alton C. Thompson Societal change usually—but not always—results from decision-making by individuals, with some individuals having more impact than others, of course. At times societal change occurs in response [...]
By: Alton C. Thompson Who would have thunk it?! It has recently been discovered that certain linguistic innovations have the inherent ability to address some of our problems as humans. [...]
By: Alton C. Thompson Here is a famous passage from the gospel of John, Chapter 18: 28 Thenthe Jewish leaders took Jesus from Caiaphas [the Roman-appointed Jewishhigh priest] to the palace [...]
By: Alton C. Thompson Most child “stars” attain that status because they have certain abilities (whether “natural” or acquired), and are “pushed” by their parents. The latter tends to occur [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: The related (but not identical) terms “global warming” and “climate change” are both misleading—perhaps even dangerously so—and therefore should be replaced. I recommend “trendular atmospheric depatternization” as [...]
By: Alton C. Thompson When I peer into the future now, as opposed to, e.g., 60 years ago, I see something rather different. Actually, that’s a lie, for I can’t [...]
By: Alton C. Thompson Rob Urie (“an artist and political economist in New York”), in his recent “The Power of Plutocracy,” stated: A social division exists where the rich and [...]
Of claimed facts, there are: Those which have rather firm empirical support, and can therefore be accepted as “true.” Those that lack such support, and therefore should be rejected. We [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: Nader states that “what I hope will be especially helpful, in this very different world we inhabit, are my memories of the traditions in which my childhood [...]
Excerpt from the PDF: I should perhaps begin by noting that humans as individuals have survival needs (for food and water), and that our species also has a survival need, that [...]
