Beyond that, we had public intellectuals like Gregory Bateson, Erich Fromm, and Rollo May, all of whom popularized ideas drawn from psychology and
commented on civilization and culture.
Not exact matches
Commenting on Robert Maynard Hutchins» call for a
Civilization of the Dialogue which can be attained when we induce the other party to talk through «exhibiting an interest in and a comprehension of what he might say if he were willing to speak,» (Robert Maynard Hutchins, «Goethe and the Unity of Mankind,» Goethe and the Modern Age, ed.
It has become necessary for me to end the day's write - ups with this piece because of a discussion I had with one of my trusted political godfathers concerning the just ended accounting to the people tour by President Mahama.It is important we critically look at the person Mahama as we move
on because of the sensitive position he occupies.I was also moved by
comments his colleagues made about him in Kigali confirming that natural accolade that Ghana is the torch bearer when it comes to African
civilization.
We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or
civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments
on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to
comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.
Last year, after U.S. Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican from California, asked members of a NASA panel to
comment on whether there were ancient
civilizations on Mars's surface, NASA project scientist Ken Farley diplomatically stated that there was no such evidence, and that its existence would be «extremely unlikely.»
Think of this more of an action movie with depth than a historical drama or political
comment on the state of
civilization's decline and you'll come a long way to appreciating Gibson's work for some gutsy in - your - face entertainment.
Perhaps inevitably, the author's unique manner of prose, animal point - of - view, and
comments on violence and
civilization get lost in favor of a somewhat simple but plenty poignant human - driven story.
We've got a suitably epic launch trailer below [which is a fortnight early, as mrflump reminds us in the
comments], with more details available in our
Civilization V: Brave New World hands -
on preview and interview with producer Dennis Shirk.
These works
comment on cataclysmic events that threaten to destroy human
civilization.
This is not the place for a discussion of christian apologetics, My
comments have been about the Judeo - Christian ethic in general and its salutary effects
on western
civilization, in response to the main post's musings
on the difficulties of deciding what is ethical in «science.»
Reblogged this
on I Didn't Ask To Be a Blog and
commented: How a 90 yr - old man and a few dead friends fool the stupid American public, end of
civilization results.
In this regard, the staggering enormity of the current challenge to the world to prevent dangerous climate change is rarely
commented on in the US media despite the fact the 25 year delay in facing this problem has now made the problem a
civilization challenging problem.
And cold periods,
on balance, are very BAD for
civilization (the opposite of the above parenthetic
comment).