The corporate motto of Google, Inc. is “Don’t be Evil.” While this might seem like playful banter from an amazingly successful company, it actually says something deep and meaningful about human society – namely, that organizations; be they corporations, religious groups, or governments; over time become “evil.”
Category: society
Over-reacting
Terrorism is a real threat, and one that needs to be addressed by appropriate means. But allowing ourselves to be terrorized by wannabe terrorists and unrealistic plots — and worse, allowing our essential freedoms to be lost by using them as an excuse — is wrong.
More on the “Missing Children”
We are rearing our children in captivity — their habitat shrinking almost daily. In 1970 the average nine-year-old girl would have been free to wander 840 metres from her front door. By 1997 it was 280 metres. Now the limit appears to have come down to the front doorstep.
Where have all the children gone?
Where are all the kids these days? I never see kids outside playing, like I did when I was young. Am I missing something, or is this next generation coming up not into playing outside?
Video Games make kids Violent?
I mean, we’ve known for years that video games teach kids to kill. Locking, loading, and firing an assault rifle is almost exactly the same as pressing the ctrl key, after all. They’ve been secretly training us for years.