CULTURE VIEWS
Lion (Part 3)
The third and final part of a series on Pope Leo XiV and artificial intelligence. A brief introduction to some of the issues and challenges that will confront our culture as the Industrial Revolution fell upon the late nineteenth century and Pope Leo X!!!.
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Lion (Part Two)
Pope Leo XIV and many others recognize an existential challenge that questions our understanding of human anthropology and will fall upon us ready or not. It’s not an “if” question but is already among us.
Understanding what’s coming is essential to us all.
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Lion
Pope Leo XIV chose his new name as the new pontiff referencing Pope Leo XIII and his renowned encyclical ‘Rerum Novarum’ that had responded from the complexities of the Industrial Revolution. Our new pope said he would be addressing specifically “developments in … artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor.”
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Amid the Ruins
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” (They represent the spirit of their age. When they fall, so too has something essential in the civilization that made them.) quote from a 1943 speech by Winston Churchill A “Great Storm” that lasted from August 11 to the 13th in 1778[i] disrupted the largest Revolutionary War battle in Rhode Island and changed the course of history, at least for Newport. Named the “Battle of Rhode Island”[ii] or alternatively…
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POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
Coming Home
Another perspecitive on one our most troubling issues. Is there a more comprehensive and just solution to our immigration controversy?
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DOGE’d
Have no doubt that the zealous DOGE young Turks with their AI tools and search algorithms imported from Musk, Inc, are every bit as much bureaucrats as those found in some of the governmental departments to which they are taking a scythe. Bureaucrats marching to different orders from different managers handing out a different mission: radical deforestation. Are the right branches are being whacked off? Or are only the unhealthy trees being culled?…
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perspective
Late to the party, but I’ll contribute a personal perspective to recent events. Perhaps you will be inspired to add your own.
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Well Scripted Redux
“The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World Revisited Journalists are not the only group wittingly or unwittingly conditioning our thinking. Nor are…
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