Human Wrongs Watch

By Robert J. Burrowes*

DAYLESFORD, Australia, 22 November 2016 – One of the more subtle manifestations of the intimate link between (unconscious) human emotions and behaviour is illustrated by the simple concept of choice and how this is so often reduced to a dichotomy between two bad options. In such circumstances, most people choose whatever they consider to be ‘the lesser evil’.

Robert J. Burrowes

But how often are there only two options, even if they appear ‘good’ and ‘bad’?

Frankly, I cannot think of one circumstance in which my choices are limited to two, however good or bad they appear to be.

Why does this belief in just two options arise?

When we are born, our evolutionary inheritance includes a phenomenally powerful capacity to feel a complex range of emotions.

Human Wrongs Watch

By Johan Galtung*

21 November 2016 – TRANSCEND Media Service – The West, and Western sciences in particular, have a peculiar way of conceptualizing time; derived from two millennia Christianity.

Johan Galtung

Thus, in the civilizations of Hinduism, Buddhism, China and Japan, to mention some, time flows from eternity to eternity.

In the West (and Islam is similar), there is a Beginning (Creation for the religious, Big Bang for the secular), and an Ending, the End Time (Armageddon for the religious, entropy, death, etc. for others).

In others, time flows from past into a possibly different future; in the West, the future is continuous with the past. In the natural sciences, “laws” from the past are automatically valid for the future; reality being as stable as the planetary system, the galaxy; astronomy being the model.  The Creation has been finished, once and for all.