Don’t you find it a little ironic that the first systems in society to go are the ones that connect us the most? Read more
The Setting
Throughout the generations, the Middle East has been a hotbed of geo-political and social upheaval. What is there about it that makes it so? Read more
The Connection Between Protests in Spain and Israel Read more
The more we develop, the more complicated and unpredictable life becomes. This means that there are forces we cannot see or feel, which is why we seem to suddenly discover all kinds of things we did not anticipate. Read more
Throughout all of history, humanity has never lived in an era of such intimate globalization, as we do today… Never has any one country’s economy been so dependent upon the economy of other countries, and never has the fate of people in any one country been so dependent upon the fate of people in other countries. Indeed, the current crisis is affecting everyone, everywhere. Read more
The strengthening of the media in the current era demonstrates the increasingly apparent connection between us. Yet concurrent to this, our much needed concern for each other is rapidly diminishing. While the media ties us tightly together, the content and messages that it conveys continue to encourage separation between us. Read more
“Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.”
–Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1964
Sea levels are rising, droughts are spreading, winter is colder, summer is hotter, the ice caps are melting, and climate has generally gone out of control. There are Bird flu, swine flu, bees are disappearing, and bugs are consuming entire forests. Indeed, Earth is tilting more and more out of balance. Read more
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” (Albert Einstein).
Today’s schools do not engage in real, substantive edification. Instead, schools today provide children with the tools needed for college admittance, while forcing them to memorize mammoth amounts of material. The greatly needed and desired edification that our educational systems once promised is almost completely nonexistent. Read more
For years, we were passive, watching and listening to whatever was broadcast and reading whatever was written in newspapers and magazines. And by and large, we were unable to affect the world around us. Then came the World Wide Web and changed our world. The Internet revolutionized all media when it introduced interactivity. Read more
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