Social Media: A Mixed Blessing

Social media has been a mixed blessing. Since the inauguration of forums and blogs in the 80s and 90s and cheap, available internet in the 2000s, everyone had the ability to become their own publisher and editor. This meant anyone with an idea or opinion could express it at…

Education is a Public Good; Stupid Memes are Not

Sometimes I truly believe Michael Crichton when he penned that cyberspace will truly mean the end of our species.

The Peter Principle states that everyone who works within a hierarchy, which is everyone, rises to his or her level of incompetence, that is, we work from competence and through promotion rise at a level of incompetence where advancement becomes impossible. It is highly likely that this has not changed much, and much of societies current troubles are…

A Nation’s Identity Is Its History

I have had an interesting conversation with a friend of a friend. He seems to have funny ideas about national history, especially after watching some film by Dinesh D’Souza. He romanticizes the good parts of his nation’s history and claims it as a part of his national…