by Bob Podolsky | Apr 5, 2017 | Bob Podolsky, ethical, Hierarchy
Getting Rid of Hierarchy with Octologues and Holomat Published on Dec 21, 2016 Anarchast Ep.324 Jeff Berwick interviews Acapulco Octologue members Michael Nimetz and Bob Podolsky, topics include: the importance of ethics and how it effects groups, maximizing...
by Bob Podolsky | Apr 5, 2017 | Bob Podolsky, Hierarchy
Bob Podoloksy on Maximizing Peace and Prosperity Through Truth and Creativity Bob Podolksy is the son of well-known physicist Boris Podolsky who along with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen wrote a paper on Action at a distance in 1935. Bob talks about Peace,...
by Bob Podolsky | Oct 5, 2016 | Applied Ethics, ethical, Hierarchy, Intelletuctual Property
Introduction There has been much discussion about “property rights”, “human rights”, “self-ownership” and the “non-aggression principle” or N.A.P. Most of the ideas on these subjects that seem worth discussing are existential in nature. For instance one often hears...
by Bob Podolsky | Jun 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Prophecy Based on the observations outlined below, I see our cultural evolution as having reached a “cusp”. On the one hand, it is within human capability to establish a world in which virtually everyone can flourish… where health and material well-being are...
by Bob Podolsky | May 24, 2016 | Applied Ethics, association, innovation, motivation, SOLUTION
An Octologue is a small group of people (typically 8) who have undertaken to act together on a voluntary basis for the pursuit of an ethical purpose. Such a group makes unanimous decisions and also acts as a mutual feedback hub, whereby the members share their...
by Bob Podolsky | May 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Life is What Happens… Most folks have probably heard the epithet, “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” This is certainly true of my most recent experience. For those of you who haven’t heard “through the grapevine”, I just got out of the...
by Bob Podolsky | Mar 10, 2016 | Applied Ethics, Bob Podolsky, ethical, Hierarchy, PROBLEM, psychopath, SOLUTION
About the Word “Authority” My friend, Larken Rose, describes authority as “the most dangerous superstition” – and has, in fact, written a wonderful little book by that title. I heartily recommend it to anyone wanting to delve deeper into the subject than the...
by Bob Podolsky | Feb 3, 2016 | Spirituality
Ethics Beyond Religion Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from “Beyond Religion” by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. I am an old man now. I was born in 1935 in a small...
by Bob Podolsky | Jan 27, 2016 | Applied Ethics, Bob Podolsky, ethical, Uncategorized
CHOOSING AN ETHIC by: Bob Podolsky Why choose an Ethic? It’s a truism that most people wants to “better themselves” – that is to better the circumstances of their lives. Philosophies and religions are all derived from this fact. When one adopts a valid...
by Bob Podolsky | Jan 23, 2016 | Applied Ethics, Bob Podolsky, BORG, Government, Legislation
FBI CHILD PORN SCANDAL by Bob Podolsky Introduction A breaking scandal reported by USA TODAY reveals that the FBI ran a “dark web” child pornography website for 2 weeks last year, after taking over the server that hosted it from its original felonious owner. The...
