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Thinking about issues.
Can Obama do it without becoming authoritarian? Is he he best Republican Candidate? What of Israel.
so far this is just a list, messy
Democracy as human development is impeded by the forms of society inherited from agriculture and the fall of Rome (capital as alienated property free from state and land). then the use of the nascent state by capital to control capital, law, property, and the movement of labor. The rise of the corporations a state/ private engine of growth and control.
Now
Darfur oil and china
Iran falling apart economically,lead it to war?
US troops and treatment of the enemy. guantanao etc
world bank
Johnson's nemesis
Diamond's Collapse
Megacities (eurozine)
energy
food
top ten (more or less)
American diplomacy should be led from values, not force
Breakdown of the corporate state through the Internet.
Corporations and charters
democracy
health
homes
justice (avoid plea bargains and entrapment)
ME and Eurasia
pollution
schools
abortion and women' rights
afganistan
africa
Arms sales
Culture
culture and human development
davos
de Soto, Hernando on land ownership by the poorest
economy
the enemy
environment
globalization
Governance,
Revisit Hobbes,Locke
the role of interest
Iran
Iraq
Israel
liberal what does it mean?
local currencies.
Money and its supporting legal structure.
political theory of democracy and elites
Tone of the presidency, biophilia/necrophilia
productivity
Real wealth
religion
russia
science
spirituality
technology and social choice
threats to the Internet.
tyranny problem now with corporations
transparency
vision gardenworld
World Bank
Israel APA FBI
Delay
Schiavo right violence
Pakistan
Torture
Oil price
Middle east
Venezuela us planned coup? Not a way to win friends.
Pope
Human personality and freedom to participate and change the rules. open experimentation.
The problem of parties, look at history. failure to enhance public debate. not aligned with real issues, but a way of avoiding real issues that clash with mainline elite.
the problem of Atherton, woodland hills.
Societal Institute tentative name " critical understanding of the world in which we live. ("
We need some kind of diagnosis and history. divergence from the idea of Lockean private property as avoid tyranny. Gary Wills Inventing America.
Things we are learning
markets not the same as capitalism: markets are democratic, capitalism is control
persons bind themselves in social arrangement as if they were part of nature.
History of the west.
Oil education social use of technology
Destructiveness and defense of territory have different roots., or rather share a root but are modified by social conditions. Defense is normal when incursion is detected Killing from lust is a divergent, socially meaning entity. (see EF Anatomy of destructiveness).
core issue for an essay I wrote in 2002. Needs updating
core issues for list of what I think are crucial
More troops
Guantanamo and red cross
Markets and money
Recount
New polls?
Bush ideology vs realism: his place in history. Tired. Moves for the next administration in 08.
Democrats and party leadership. Rosenberg? Dean?
The meaning of liberal. Not property but spirit. Individual conscience, requires lots of education. Linking the prospects of spirit with property is what Locke did. Do we have an alternative?
Dollar, china
Seems to be floating
Bush policy prevent EU cohesion and new nationalism
China and Japn, rearming.
Environment
Crichton complex
Good vs bad science. Power vs conscience
Europe industrialization and the world: Europe struggles to fit in.
American silver, wage rates, wars.
European culture: implications
The primacy of experience, the balance of the body in math, measurement and poetics. The place of the story.
Us in Ex Soviets. undermining the regimes with money. We have corrupted democracy.
Depleted uranium
Treatment of vets, dems should make it, and all decency, a priority.
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