To the Editor (Re: “Awaiting Puerto Ricans, September 38, 2017, p. 1) Immigration in our Future. Immigration is desirable; it should not be either opposed or tolerated; it should be appreciated. The large majority of us are immigrants or the descendants of immigrants, many from countries far beyond our national borders. And it is lucky […]
Blog #104 – An Incomplete but Useful Inconvenient Sequel Al Gore’s continuation of his An Inconvenient Truth is an important contribution to the effort to combat global warming and pay attention to what is and what is not being done to the natural environment by largely unregulated economic development. It is a bit too long, […]
JACKIE LEAVITT: A PEOPLE’S PLANNER, ETHICAL AND PROGRRESSIVE What was perhaps most unusual about Jackie Leavitt’s professional and political social justice work was the relationship between them and her personal life: how she informed her own work by her lived experience with people, and drew the lessons of that work for socially concerned planners and […]
Blog #100 – Competition: What’s Socially Desirable and What Isn’t. , In the discussion here , the phrase “winners and losers,” as it is understood in day-to-day exchange by Donald Trump. There are other definitions that are not insidious. Not every competition that has winners and losers is bad. Sports are the classic example of […]
**** Blog #99 – “Winning” – Is It Really Socially Desirable? [1] A society that writes “WINNING” on its banner tramples on any goal of equality. “Winning” in most usages (in Neo-Lib language [2] by definition produces losers; that is its goal. Yet society exists, and governments are created, to implement, the belief that all […]
Blog #98 – Winners and Losers in Trump’s World There are winners and losers in life, says Donald Trump; that’s just the way it is. Everyone can’t be a winner; some people just inevitably have be losers. That’s certainly true of chess, or the javelin throw, in the Olympics, or budding young entrepreneurs in information […]
Folks, Perhaps Trummp understands the logic of this also, and that explains why he so staunchly opposes dealing seriously with and really funding any serious social programs in his budget – if you start helping one set of “losers,” you’re going to have to start helping all of them, and what woould that imply… http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/kVFvD3ZhdmzC5FxaK54C/full […]
