The 112th Congress has already delivered on a campaign promise. They read the entire Constitution on the House floor. Like most campaign promises, however, it wasn’t as easy as it sounded. There was a quibble about which version to read, the original version or the current version that reflects revisions, amendments or deletions…. actually, they [...]
Posts under ‘BLUE: Antifederalist Thinking’
The Not So Radical American
Watching William Gibson’s “No Maps for These Territories,” I found one brief moment in the film that resonated with a million other moments in time. The famous science fiction author wanted to describe his work and to explain why he has never seen himself as a visionary. He said we live in an incomprehensible present [...]
The Opposite is Also True
This TED video reminded me of one of the Academy’s posters. Some have suggested it’s one of the most confusing. There are blue AFs and purple Fs with positive and negative signs. Boxes drawn around the pairs suggest relationships between the Federalists, the Antifederalists, the constitution and the anti-constitution. Remember that one? In this 3 [...]
An old post
I am going to add this now, but as you can tell I wrote this last fall, but wrongly posted it as a comment not as a post. Hope it can still start a debate!! I believe we had our first real Constitutional moment during Wednesday’s final Presidental debate. In one of the final questions [...]
The Wave, Human Nature, and Our Radical Evolution
Published in 2005, Joel Garreau’s Radical Evolution offers multiple perspectives on the future of human kind. Interviewing world-class thinkers, engineers, and philosophers, the author examines not only our decisions, but our decision making process—for the heart of Garreau’s thesis maintains that human nature changes. We’ve all wondered whether we’re still part of that process. Over [...]
