Avainsana: democracy
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The most dangerous persons on Earth, TOP-5
The most dangerous people in the world right now is the topic of this blog post. The state of the world has changed a lot in the last ten years. In the past, the most dangerous would definitely have included terrorists such as Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US special forces Navy Seal…
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The Phantom menance – Fear creates the populist far right and stupidity sustains it
I previously wrote a blog post ”Political extremism arises from incompetence”. Now I return to the same theme. Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt, who fled Nazi persecution to the United States, presented in her 1951 work The Birth of Totalitarianism that political extremism and totalitarianism arise from people being separated and not having power over things.…
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Elysium – A Good Earth in the Year 2122
I present a thesis: the world’s problems are caused by relationships. Ecological problems, i.e. environmental problems, arise from the fact that man’s relationship with nature is broken, and social, i.e. societal problems, such as wars and poverty, from the fact that man’s relationship with other people is broken. In the Bible, the relationship between God…
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The roots of capitalism and fair economics – in fair play everybody wins
Bhopal, India On December 3, 1984, Union Carbide’s insecticide factory, owned by the US giant Dow Chemicals, releases huge amounts of toxic methylisocyanate into the air and water bodies in a short period of time. 3,500 people die from terrible poisoning symptoms, tens of thousands are injured, and later another 50,000 locals die from diseases…