Gerard Fournier
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Bamboozled
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” Carl Sagan
By Gerard Fournier2 years ago in Humans
Nailed to the Door of Our Planet PART 2
“The paradox of McWorld (corporate ideal) Benjamin Barber writes in Jihad vs. McWorld, “is that it destroys the financial base of the consumers it needs on the way to selling them products. It overproduces goods and underproduces employment, unable to see the connection between them. While democracy cultivates free markets, markets fail to cultivate democracy.”
By Gerard Fournier2 years ago in Earth
Nailing this to the Earth’s Door for All to See
Shatner looking down at that thin green layer of life. That’s all there is! He pulled off an amazing feat of dexterity! Without embarrassing or putting on the spot his generous host, Jeff Bezos, who was quite naturally using Shatner’s presence on the space flight to promote his Blue Origin exploits, Bill deftly turned the focus to what he saw down below from up there; the fragility of that gentle planet, the tipping point of where the Earth is precariously balanced in the void. And so he subtly turned the conversation around from being about space flight and the wonders of modern technology, to a focus on the preciousness of our Earth and how we need now to collectively put our greatest efforts to saving our one and only living space.
By Gerard Fournier2 years ago in Earth
The Baby and the Bathwater
Racism is what gave Europeans charge over the rest of the world, starting with the conquests of 1492 and right on through most of the 20th century. Who in all parts of the world was not affected negatively by this disease of superiority? Race took hold as a prominent perception in our consciousness?
By Gerard Fournier3 years ago in Confessions