from there, to here, to there

One mans journey through a fraction of time

Quotes...

"I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die"
Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 [67 years]

"Human beings are conscious of their own desires, but are ignorant of the causes whereby those desires have been determined"
Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677 [45 years]

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Human will cannot be called a 'free' cause, only a 'necessary' cause"
Baruch Spinoza 1632-1677

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A film no one dares make HERE

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The Times [South Africa]2008-09-17

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New America Foundation

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China Radio International

Campaign For America's Future

Universe Today [Life on Mars?]

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New Cartoons...

Wiz and Dad [20]

There's Water On Mars [3]

A Banker [4]

Philosophy...

Being Human

Free Will - An Illusion?

The Royal Bank of Squanderland - Still thinking about this - See interim cartoon

Socialism - The 'Stealing Elites' ongoing campaign to portray socialism as an undesirable concept.
- The downgrading of the principle of socialism by continually citing failed/ corrupt socialist system experiments. Massive bankruptcies, Government ownership. When capitalism fails, society comes to the rescue.
- Is it time to find a new name for a system where all people in a society work together to create a better world for humankind and for all living things based on mutual benevolence?
- The UK Labor Party, Labor Day, Workers; we say the words, but what do they really mean? Who are the 'workers'? What niche do they fill in society? And what are we going to call everyone else? [Parasites?]

Capitalism - Is pure capitalism now also a failed social system? [Not that it was ever social]
- Is part of the concept of capitalism an intention to conceal the basic principles of the system from the people who actually create all the real wealth?
- Does the capitalism system rely on keeping the various mechanisms that keep it in place hidden from the public at large by making it overly complicated? Hyper-macroeconomics - looking from 'outside the box'.

Socio-Capitalism - Man going boldly somewhere mankind has not boldly gone before? [sic]
- Equitable distribution of wealth based on ability and effort but with upper and lower limits. [Not communism - not capitalism]
- Is the existence of just one billionaire and just one beggar in the world a measure of humanity's failure to install equitable wealth distribution systems?