Filosofa Rants Yet Again!

I was seriously trying to work on a post about banned books for Banned Books Week when I took a brief break and while perusing a bit of news and some…

Filosofa Rants Yet Again!

A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction – Vox

“Existential security” is the state where we are mostly not facing risks in any given year, or decade, or ideally even century, that have a substantial chance of annihilating civilization. For existential security from nuclear risk, for instance, perhaps we reduce nuclear arsenals to the point where even a full nuclear exchange would not pose a risk of collapsing civilization, something the world made significant progress on as countries slashed nuclear arsenal levels after the Cold War. For existential security from pandemics, we could develop PPE that is comfortable to wear and provides approximately total protection against disease, plus a worldwide system to detect diseases early — ensuring that any catastrophic pandemic would be possible to nip in the bud and protect people from. Source: A new UN report explores how to make human civilization safe from destruction – Vox

Trump Endorsed Michigan House Candidate Is Fine With Women Not Being Able To Vote

Gibbs started a think tank during his time at Stanford University, the Society for the Critique of Feminism. In this organization, the house candidate reportedly argued against women’s right to vote and pushed the belief that “men were smarter than women because they are more likely to “think logically about broad and abstract ideas to deduce a suitable conclusion without relying upon emotional reasoning.” Source: Trump Endorsed Michigan House Candidate Is Fine With Women Not Being Able To Vote

Llanto en el bosque

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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A los árboles, a los bosques, a las selvas, a la vida, a nosotros…

No son susurros en el bosque; tampoco es el viento que acaricia las frondas de los árboles. Se oyen suspiros tristes, gritos que el silencio de la muerte apaga y oculta. El bosque llora. Cada árbol se queja al sentir, en su tronco, el filo de la sierra metálica que lo hiere mortalmente, hasta que cae en la tierra que lo nutrió desde que era semilla. Los motores de las sierras se escuchan incontenibles, enmudecen el concierto de la naturaleza y cubren los ríos que pierden su transparencia y pureza al recibir los pedazos de cortezas que acreditan un crimen más en perjuicio de la humanidad, del mundo, de la vida. Los árboles son talados en los bosques, en las selvas, como si se tratara…

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Please Watch Ken Burns’ “The U.S. and the Holocaust”

Diane Ravitch's blog

I watched the third episode of the latest Ken Burns’ documentary, and I understand why he said it is the most important documentary he ever made.

As history, it is powerful. And it is even more powerful because there are so many echoes of present events in our own country.

In three episodes, we see one of the most cultured countries in the world fall under the spell of a charismatic madman. We see the German people march to his tune, cheer him, fall in line, then become brutes as they carry out his mission to exterminate the Jews of Europe and to capture the Continent.

We see heroic Americans trying to rescue desperate refugees. And we meet the anti-Semites in the State Department who wanted to keep refugees out and leave them to their fate. and we are reminded again and again that the American public did not want…

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