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Development & Prosperity in Chatham County North Carolina
Does upgrading become more prevalent as a county gets richer? Welcome new developments? Continue to work on Haw River and Jordan Lake cleanup? Keep Kudzu out? Control Sevin dust and Coyotes? What development and prosperity did the first settlers have in mind when they came here around 1751? Apparently the Catawba Indians were friendly towards the colonists and later served side by side with them fighting the British in our Revolutionary War. How did it turn out for the Catawba? It’s easy to justify anti-development perspectives as long as one forgets that there’s probably not a single person contributing to this debate who would be here were it not for a long series of developers.
Humpty Dumpty Revisited
In the dark days when the hard-won benefits of a thousand centuries of civilized advances are obliterated, our descendants will judge us. Struggling to survive amid the consequences of our reckless deficiencies, foraging through the rubble we’ve bequeathed to them, they’ll condemn our selfish arrogance. “What kind of misfits were they?” our descendants will wonder….
The Use of Religion to Achieve Earthly Power
Human Leadership The Swiss Protestant theologian Karl Barth (May 10, 1886 – December 10, 1968) is described as one of the most important religious thinkers of the 20th century. Barth personally mailed a public stance against Nazism (Barmen Declaration) to Adolf Hitler in 1934. He left Germany to avoid a required loyalty oath to the Nazi leader. Quests…
Rednecks Redux
Sunburns come in many colors. The quickest way to become a redneck is to spend too many hours working under a hot summer sun. Humanity’s neck coloring differences are mostly inherited DNA, nurtured by xenophobic isolation, then brushed with climate. Rednecks are a complex subject. The word redneck is used to describe independent country folk…
Political Expediency and Social Change
A recently leaked memo suggested that British Prime Minister David Cameron’s government was not doing well with women voters. As reported in The Economist on Oct. 15, 2011, this finding may account for “a stream of female-friendly policy announcements, including calls for more women on company boards and new guidelines to shield children from online…
Interdependence and Coexistence
Interdependence is obvious. Global coexistence is our common cause.