Tag: Humanity

Auguste Comte and the Religion of Humanity

Auguste Comte believed a scientific society and God could not co-exist. A scientific society and religion, on the other hand, absolutely. He saw God and religion as separate entities, and that God’s ‘death’ should not lead to the death of religion, for the sake of humanity. Augu...

The Misanthrope: the man who loved humanity too much

Do you think most people are immoral, ungrateful, disrespectful, hypocritical, stupid, and incompetent? Politics disgusts you, crowds repel you, you can’t stand the presence of others, and you see the history of humanity as an uninterrupted series of destruction, wars, massacres and inequaliti...

Internet memes, digital cultural heritage of humanity?

There are currently 4.388 billion Internet users in the world — equivalent to 57% of the world’s population — who spend an average of 6 hours and 42 minutes of their time every day browsing the World Wide Web — about two sevenths of their day (Kemp, 2019). These figures revea...

How recently have we understood the Universe?

Since ancient times, humanity has studied the skies. 70,000 years ago, a red dwarf-brown dwarf pair known as Scholz’s star, so faint that it was only discovered very recently, passed through the Solar System’s Oort cloud. Unlike the illustration, however, it’s so intrinsical...

Reimagining Humanity

Negative messaging, division, conflict. The overwhelming proliferation of these behaviors has reached epidemic proportions in modern culture leaving us increasingly disenfranchised and alone, coping with the injuries these behaviors cause instead of combating the root of the behavior itself. But wha...

Gaza???s wounded face difficult choices: A sobering look at humanity in crisis

As Israel’s latest military offensive in Gaza enters its 12th week, hospitals there are overwhelmed with more than 54,500 injured civilians???—???many facing agonizing decisions no person should ever have to make. While doctors work tirelessly to save lives under impossible conditions, s...

The Day the Earth Spoke: A Wake-Up Call to Humanity

Look, I’ve been around for about 4.5 billion years, give or take a few million. I’ve seen dinosaurs come and go, watched as meteors made their flashy entrances, and have had my fair share of ice ages and heatwaves. But you, my dear humans, are something else. I mean, in the grand timelin...