THE MISSING COMMANDMENT

thou shalt not hate. 

KARMA

there's one time when i understand karma; when humans suffer self-inflicted wounds. i've been hearing too much from the US lately — too much of the political discourse, which unfortunately will likely affect the entire globe. the level of ignorance, the level of error and falsehood blanketing the entire public sphere, cannot augur well for anyone's future. at a time when the anthropocene era is threatening to end life as we know it, the primitive thinking involving both some leaders and many of the public, is as shocking as a look back into american history can be.

this is one thing i am afraid mr whitman got wrong; the US is not the great nation of the world. it has not been the great experiment in democracy (although it was a large-scale experiment in capitalism). if it keeps on its present course it will be the great threat to democracy's survival.