Dateline: Roger Nowosielski
Weblog: takeitorleaveit.typepad.com
Articles: 75
I'm Polish-born but as American as apple-pie. I've seen a great many changes since I first set foot in this land in 1961 - many of them, I'm afraid, not for the better. Thanks to the Internet era and the "blogging" phenomenon, we can address the issues that ail us, establish new means of communication, form new alliances, perhaps make a difference in the end.
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What we’re going through right now, both in America and throughout the West, isn’t just any economic or political crisis but a moral crisis first and foremost. Get with it and act accordingly!
What is justice? The one question that’s coextensive with humanity’s lifespan, a question which shall forever be asked and forever remain relevant.
Protest is the message and the physical spaces which are being reclaimed, the medium. The end result is the process.
An one-act play Concerning “Tactician” (the compound commander),a gossip monger called “Troublemaker,” and a little piglet named “Squealer”
If “Occupy America” only stays on message and doesn’t succumb to putting forth demands or an articulated platform, the days of the one percent are over and a new beginning is at hand.
Altruism is a touchy-feely kind of term. If evolutionary science is to posit it as a viable alternative to that which drives human progress, it must do better.
Rats abandoning the sinking ship used to be an apt metaphor, but I’m afraid our once respected banking industry has raised it a notch better: while at it, why not sell what remains for scrap?
Altruism is an alternative to competition as the all-definitive, if not vulgar, expression of the evolutionary principle. The question is, how can we put it to work?
It's one thing to try to mobilize the masses to rise up against the oppressor; community building is another. Both are important elements of revolutionary thought and action.
"Liberal." Imagine everyday political discourse without recourse to this all-convenient label. You can’t!
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