Wilson Riles

It is possible to be too radical! A person’s and/or a group’s sign of being too radical can best be delineated by their commitment to having and stockpiling guns and other weapons. Wherever a person or a group stands on a point of “political space” – right, left, up, down, transcendent (I don’t believe in…

Western Culture prioritizes one way of knowing (the scientific method) above other ways of knowing (characterized as religious). This is a particularly powerful hang-up. Killings, thievery, and all manner of uncivilized behaviors were justified by this cultural bias. The belief in the superiority of science significantly blunted the criticism of horrendous acts through an immoral…

At the military inaugural ball, the Commander in Chief’s Ball, President Obama invited the audience to clap for their “comrades” who were on a viewing screen televised from Afghanistan. There was a small twitch that flashed across his face and that was recognizable in his voice as he used the term. “Comrades” is a term…

First let me admit that I was wrong in my last column in regards to the Congressional Republican’s death wish because of the anger and disfavor generated through their holding the “faith and credit” of the country hostage to their demands being fulfilled before voting to lift the debt ceiling. It seems that some of…

John Locke was wrong: capitalism and democracy do conflictDon’t be fooled by biased economist’s rhetoric. Capitalism is largely a social psychological phenomenon similar to racism. It is a set of beliefs about human nature that channel human interactions in specific directions, based on insubstantial information. Capitalism functions through many of the same cultural elements (memes)…

Scott cannot make their racism more palatable or open black ears to their false solutions.There have only been six blacks in the U.S. Senate in the history of the country. This is not surprising because the Senate was always intended to be an exclusive “club.” There were three Democrats from Illinois (Carol Mosely Braun [1993…

The capital from stolen lands and stolen labor was concentrated, centralized, and made available to mostly Republican business tycoons.Where are U.S. economics headed? Before we can truly know where we may be going, we must know where we have been and where we are now! That is a basic concept in path-finding. All other things…