Celebrate Diversity - A Bioble suggestion
Season 1
MHA Episode 1
Episode 2 - Change
Episode 3: You say you want a revolution?
The Garden Party
The Ramble
MHA 0106 Sports!
Be a Professional
How did we get here?
Where do we go from here?
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How much diversity can you handle? That's the issue today.
This is an introduction to a scientific worldview in the Church of Science. We all believe things, I think we should believe in science. Perhaps this could solve some of our problems.
This episode follows up the evolutionary perspective on society, asking about the combinations of major adaptations. Two major social adaptations in modern America are capitalism and democracy. Which one is more important?
Revolutions occur because beliefs change. Things are stable in groups when everyone believes basically the same things. IF those things actually represent reality, then they can be stable for a long time. This episode covers centuries of revolutions, all in 30 minutes!
What would a political party based on science look like? Would it be any worse than the current systems?
It's been crazy, but things finally came together. It seems to me when you look at life from the perspective of evolution, with three major social adaptations, it all makes sense....
Could professional sports be a model for social organization? They combine the ideas of biological fitness, intellectual planning, and economic viability to social systems that use regulated combinations of cooperation and competition. Hmmm.
'Being professional' captures an idea about different things to different people. Maybe we could use those ideas as a new standard for civilized, social behavior. Professionals are rewarded economically, are granted certain social status, and have a say in running their segment of society. Isn't that what citizenship is about? How would society change if we started requiring 'professional behavior' out of all adult citizens?
The core theology of The Church of Science. How did humanity evolve with consciousness and artificial selection? This episode provide the 'gospel' truth, according to Science, for a history of humanity.
We are at the end of an era - The Colonial Era. We had monarchs and plutocrats guiding us through the last 500 years as western European nations expanded over the globe. We established two amazing social adaptations to regulate our societies: Democracy and Capitalism. Now we have to decide which one is more important. Do we want democratic Capitalism (DC), or capitalist Democracy (CD)? DC gives us the ability to vote on things, up to the point where we intrude on peoples right to own things. CD gives us the ability to vote on everything, while preserving a degree of ownership. The question is how many resources should one individual be able to control? We have to share the planet - so what is a reasonable limit on how much any one individual should own? A few acres and a mule? A bed and a warm place to go to the bathroom? $10,000,000? An entire nation? We'll just have to see how it plays out...