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SHARE Sunday, January 22, 2017 President Trump: Poster Boy for Rankism
The protests following the inauguration of President Trump were about more than the dignity of women. They were about dignity for everyone. Someday, the Women's March on Washington may be regarded as marking the birth of a Dignity Movement.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 24, 2016 Donald Trump, Orchestra Conductor
Like all demagogues, Trump is not a creator but an orchestrator of popular resentment.
SHARE Tuesday, March 8, 2016 Dignity's Future
With the imminence of game-changers like climate change, nuclear proliferation, and super artificial intelligence, humankind probably has, at most, a century to complete the transition from a predatory to a dignitarian survival strategy.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 21, 2016 How to Keep our Dignity While Ceding Human Preeminence
There's no reason to believe that machines of surpassing intelligence will evoke less awe and wonder than organisms that have arisen via natural selection.
(8 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 24, 2015 Why Does Racism Persist? Update
If anyone took the demise of Jim Crow and the election of a black president to mean that racism was dead, the racist murders at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston are sobering reminders that racism lives.
(10 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 5, 2015 Why Does Racism Persist?
To end racism we must identify and sever the immortal head that keeps the beast alive. Racism's immortal head is rankism.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, February 2, 2015 A New Default Self
The purpose of this essay is to describe the current default self and suggest a new one that can withstand the post-modern critique and incorporate the findings of brain science.