mankind

For at least 100,000 years, since ‘modern man’ first emerged from eastern or southern Africa, we have been as we are—tribal, self-centered and sub-consciously dominated by the adaptive strategy of…

After 15 years of intensive philosophical inquiry into the question of how human disorder could evolve out of the natural order, I had a shattering experience that answered the question…

I’ve long wondered why the question that seized me as a young man didn’t register with the vast majority of philosophers. Given that nature unfolds in seamless wholeness, I asked,…

A curiously and spuriously Western idea has crept into academia, and from there, into civil society and politics. Having ruthlessly dominated and colonized Africa and Asia under the guise of…

Many people on this Earth Day are concerned about ecological and civilizational collapse. Some think it’s happening, and will spell our extinction as a species. Others think it can still…

Fifty years ago Will Durant, wrote, “We humans are the same trousered apes at 2000 miles an hour as when we had legs.” Given the consensus at present that the…

Though parochial minds think in terms of ‘the future of America,’ or ‘the future of Latin America,’ or ‘the future of Africa,’ the issue now, as never before in human…