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Category: <span>Writing the World</span>

Change the World by Finding Connections and Common Ground

  I’d really like the world to change. In my lifetime, I would really like to see so many things happen that are currently stalemated by intolerance, bigotry, and ignorance. But I know that any change I’d like to see has to start with me. So I’d like to start …

The Execution of My Year Without Money Wasn’t Perfect

The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book Money, Sex, Power, and Faith: The Convergence of Culture. In the spirit of transparency, I must admit I often fail in my endeavors, and I tend to let people down. I spent my late childhood and adolescence in a fundamentalist Christian school …

Would a Standard Living Allowance Help Us Create a Balanced Economy Without Losers?

Considering this notion of entitlement, most would agree that every person is entitled to a living wage, yet in this ironic age of industry, we have made it necessary for each person to work for that wage as we simultaneously mechanize jobs and minimize the opportunity for employment in a …

How Do You Put An End to Violence? Try Being Nice.

Although the United States has the most violent deaths of any industrialized country, and the horrors of the media do much to promote that concept, we have actually decreased the violent death rate by 18%. Perhaps the warning received through Bowling for Columbine reached its goal in at least beginning …