The U.S. Election Deteriorates As We Watch Many of us in the U.S. are watching  as the Presidential race deteriorates into a combination of celebrity worship, media bashing, attack ads, sarcasm and fear. Two extraordinary candidates, each one a man of conscience and courage, are being sucked into a maelstrom so strong even they cannot resist its compelling pull.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        Thoughtful Discussion and Gravitas is Lost We are paying a terrible price for allowing ourselves to get swept up in this trance. All sense of thoughtful discussion of the issues, and the gravitas of wisely choosing a leader who will have to make critical decisions that may affect the future not just of the U.S., but of the entire world, is being lost.    How Did American Politics Get So Off-Course? American politics has been off-course for years and Americans and the whole world knows it.

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We Are More Alike Than We Are Different Human beings are far more alike than we are different.  The differences between us are actually very minor. Human beings all over the world are overwhelmingly similar. We all share the same anatomy and physiology. Our brains operate the same way. We have the same triune brain, with a brain-stem that controls fundamental life processes like breathing ,a mid-brain which controls and regulates emotion and a cortex, the outer brain, which controls thinking and reasoning and is the seat of language. We Make Up Stories to Explain Our Pain Our one compelling drive is to survive and to reproduce.

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