When one is conversing, one is dwelling in a particular space usually together with one or more other people, though sometimes only with oneself.

Whether it’s religion or politics or economics or nationality or culture or gender or sexual orientation, almost all violence on our planet today can be traced back to an identification with a particular set of characteristics, beliefs or values leading to an attitude of “us against them.

If we assume that there is a single or at least primary cause for the many, many problems that we as humanity are now facing, then what would it be and how could we successfully address it?

The headline of a recent New York Times article announced: “Amazon’s Offline Game Changer”.  This sounds dramatic but when you read the article you discover that what actually happened was that Amazon announced that, “Prime members could now download (some) movies and TV shows to iOS and Android devices.”  In order to watch programming offline previously, you had to have …