Election Day 2010

Eugene Robinson has an interesting commentary in today’s paper though I think his conclusion is off the mark. People are people no matter what political party (or race) they belong to.I have had people treat me in ways that I thought were unfair. I have had people abuse me simply because they had the power to do it and in both of these situations I found myself plotting to get even. I never actually picked up a gun and went and shot anybody instead I plotted elaborate scenarios as to how I could ruin this person’s life but never be accused of anything. How common a reaction do you think that is? If I had to guess I’d say very.Expand this situation to American politics and you have the gist of Mr. Robinsons article. Wasn’t it Plato that said ‘society is the individual writ large?’ I...

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Welcome to the Symbiosis Project Blog

Welcome to the Symbiosis Project blog. In this first post I’d like to tell you a little about us and the Monument for the Common Man.Sometimes it seems like there are an infinite number of ways to group human beings together. Nothing proves this point better than the internet. While it’s all but impossible to count the number of small groups there are some very large groups. Nationalities, religions, race. Millions of people, even billions, belong to some of these groups. But the largest group by far are average working people. As of this writing there are 6,878,892,903 humans on the planet earth. I have no firm statistics on how many are or have been working people but I will hazard a guess and say over 95%. As a group there is nothing else that comes close.Since before recorded...

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