UPDATE (March 2020) the Covid 19 Pandemic caught us all flat-footed, exposing how little individual and institutional preparedness actually existed. UPDATE (January 2021) FEMA creates a National Risk Index, finally quantifying the obvious: nearly every county carries some form of existential exposure. How Plagues Have Changed History[1] _________________________ Many years ago after reviewing Buckminster Fuller‘sContinue reading “Strategic Relocation”
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Better Angels
Uncle Jim pointed to a recent article in Science discussing Steven Pinker’s The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (2011). I gave the book a quick read and found it a simple gloss on the benefits of global integration; hopeful homilies of an academician sheltered from the possibilities of violence. Pinker’s general thesis isContinue reading “Better Angels”
Thank you Mr. Petrov
Thanksgiving 2017 – I was able to catch up on some neglected issues of The Economist and found a reason to be deeply grateful: an affirmation that people are fundamentally good. Despite the callous and sensationalist reporting that is ever fashionable, focusing on the salacious and vile behavior some members of species exhibit, the majorityContinue reading “Thank you Mr. Petrov”
Protective Arts 