Hola from Paraguay, What are the arguments against having fruit trees in the footpaths of our cities? Do we think they bring insects? Do we worry about falling fruit? Do we believe the maintenance is greater than for other trees? Or, is there a commercial reason? Perhaps it is thought that they somehow encourage homelessness …Read More
Hola from Asuncion, Paraguay, Imagine a museum paying indigenous people for artifacts; paying a reasonable price; negotiating in good faith with the people who were the original creators of those artifacts. This would be to avoid the deceptions caused by the theft of the so-called Elgin Marbles from Greece, now housed in the British Museum, …Read More
Hola from Paraguay, Socialism will always fail if it supplants capitalism. This, of course, is the impossible conundrum. Karl Marx predicted that capitalism would replace feudalism, and that eventually capitalism’s cruel excesses would lead to the population turning to a fairer system. The question is how to eliminate the ethos of greed and selfishness inculcated …Read More