My father is fond of saying that the problem with human society is that we were born without an operating manual. Clever I thought. Once. But thinking more carefully, I realize it’s actually not true at all. We have endless advice passed down through tradition and testament and even tablet that lays out pretty unequivocally
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There is a common misconception in many parts of the world that society is improving. "Hey, we don't draw and quarter people in the public square anymore," goes that common wisdom. "We've got central heating and watch on demand." Yes, we do. We've also got very sophisticated killing machines, and for all our vaunted technological
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Way back in English Lit class at Reynolds High School in my hometown of Victoria, I remember Mrs. Kent waxing rhapsodically about Milton's Paradise Lost, and asking us if we believed in paradise regained. I, with my thoughts on the basketball game that night against arch-rivals, Oak Bay, thought she was a bit loopy. But
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Welcome to Thinking with Somebody Else's Head. Martin Luther King foretold of a promised land. Thoreau wrote of a transcendent time when wise men would ennoble the population. Thomas More dreamed his utopia. Lennon imagined all the people living life in peace. The dream of a better society doesn't easily vacate the human heart. In
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