I wondered if one might think of the Ancient Greek playwright, who had definite negative thoughts about the gods and certain ideas about how a society should be run, could be considered a democratic socialist. So I asked perplexity.ai to write an essay on the topic. Here it is. Though the term *democratic socialist* belongsContinue reading “Euripides as a Democratic Socialist”
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Hardening of the Attitudes
What’s a topic or issue about which you’ve changed your mind? My title for this post comes from some wordplay that I created when I was a much younger man. Reflecting on the comment I heard from older adults, I thought that their increasingly negative attitudes towards others could turn out to be as deadlyContinue reading “Hardening of the Attitudes”
Gratitude
How do you express your gratitude? This prompt raises an interesting point for me. Not in how I express my gratitude, because I think I do it with sincere feeling, but the whole idea of why we do things for other people. In my view of history (and so this might just be from myContinue reading “Gratitude”