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We are being out-evolved
I vividly recall reading Bill McKibben’s prophetic work, The End of Nature, serialized in The New Yorker beginning 11 September 1989..
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Letting the future out of its cage
We pretend to have enemies, but mostly what we “have” are people whose lives simply don’t matter. And then we kill them, either directly — via airstrikes or other war games, turning them into collateral damage — or indirectly . . . by simply failing to notice that they exist…
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The value of looking backward
Former President Obama famously expressed his belief about the “war on terror” that “we need to look forward as opposed to looking backward.” Will we learn from the unfolding disaster in Afghanistan? Only by looking backward. An honest assessment would show…