<p>First, let me paraphrase Marx:
Philosophers interpret the world; the point, however, is to change it.</p>
<p>Here are a few random ones.</p>
<p>** Autism, Bipolar and Schizoid Genotypes **
Despite typically bad representation in the US Media, Autism is not the monster some people make it out to be. It is a genetically based neurological spectrum [acc. to Prof Simon Baron-Cohen], and is responsible for certain points of social ineptitude that correlate strongly with certain mental abilities. Several pivotal contributors to our state of affairs displayed what is regarded as the phenotype, and society cannot benefit from its absence. The senseless campaign for its extermination is the suicide of mankind.</p>
<p>** Arab Society Human Rights Violations **
Even in Egypt and other supposedly moderate countries you cannot campaign for president as a non-Muslim. Saudi Arabia parries criticism with oil. Many of those nations are monarchies. In any other state, if something like that were introduced, most of the neighbours would recoil in uproar.</p>
<p>** Israeli Army Human Rights Violations **
The Israeli army should be registered as a terrorist organization. Targeting BBC reporters and invading Lebanon is not self defence. It is like the army is just going after lebensraum, like Nazis. This is in defiance of internal pressure in the only effectively secular state and democracy in the area. I know it is bad elsewhere too, but the Israeli army gets no criticism from the insanely timid US Media [save for Stephen Colbert and his State-of-the-Union address in 2006], which is in another point.</p>
<p>** Docile Media Houses **</p>
<p>** Hate and Social Conservatism **
Censure, homophobia, racism, nationalism, patriotism, religious discrimination, fear of strange people or neurodiversity, ethnic cleansing, gender identity and gender discrimination, specific limitations on women's rights, sex and gender inequality in military service, attempt to "cure" autism, tolerance of school bullying, tolerance of rape and humiliation in being raped, expecting the protagonist to be "him", tolerance of unprovoked interpersonal violence, encouraging people to regurgitate old traditions as opposed to think up their own, reliance on so-called "family values", ostracism, discrimation on impractical basis, use of mores as opposed to logic, use of old religions where opposed to personal religions, reliance on societal approval and other intellectually indefensible practices that also do not belong in a straightforward economy where they inhibit production.</p>
<p>** Access to Education **
If you pick a random zealot, and made a deal that you would fund its education [I would rather not use "her" or "his"], I think that the enthusiasm to learn would easily extrapolate to paying you back in many cases. Of course, not everyone will be cut out for that, so at least if the whole world becomes a socialist meritocracy, we can get things to run a bit more smoothly if everyone gets to do what they can as opposed to having a disillusioned potential scholar, in poverty, commit suicide and take out a whole community as it dies.</p>
<p>** Climate Change **</p>
<p>** Overpopulation **
Hopefully we will go below 4 billion people on the Earth by some miracle. Oh yes! That's what most of these other concerns are for! Yay! Human extermination! However, I would much more rather a law that strips you of the right to Human Rights if you fail to be humane at any time.</p>
<p>** Animal Rights **
It does not make logical economic sense, for the human individual, for all animals to have rights.</p>
<p>** Nationalism [as opposed to Internationalism] **
The desire to fit in, to call oneself part of a meaningless contrived group, is the Viagra(TM) of most evil. The existence of sovereign nations with the right to geographic coercion makes as much sense as the existence of sovereign villages and sovereign individuals with said right.</p>
<p>** Extremism **</p>
<p>** World Food Prices **
Around "here", the price of food for a day has just about doubled in the past 18 months.</p>
<p>** Effects of US Recession **</p>
<p>** The future of US Foreign Policy **
I think that the US would benefit from Mr. Obama, and the world at large would be a tad relieved. On the other hand McCain now seems like a lose-lose progenitor. Ariana Huffington puts it lucidly in effectively saying that the reasonable McCain "is no more," and says "it's like Fonzy." He sucked up to the far far right [forgive me; by standards outside of the US, even the Democrats are often conservative] and abandoned those ideas of his that slightly flavoured my study US politics.</p>
<p>** Future of Intellectual Sharing; Legal Efficiency **
It is currently possible to copyright almost anything. Unfortunately, that makes practicality bend towards trite manipulations of permission and a legal system despite the incoherenct and at times illogical nature of human legal constitutions. A legal code should be programmable if it is unequivocal. If it is not unequivocal, then it is unjust.</p>
<p>** Belief **
To quote myself, all that is apparent is experiment, that is, an education of statistics. I seriously entertain the idea that the only reason people "believe" things is that they are
- over-culturalized and under-intellectual
or
-lazy.</p>