Any documentary by Ken Burns will be well researched and well done.

If you can fond them, look into them.

I am interested in the concept of civilization and would like to know what you think the term indicates. Please help in my research: -What does it mean to be civilized? -If I said Joe is very civilized what would you imagine I am telling you about Joe? -If I said Frank was uncivilized what would you...

Mr. Marks, You stated that "growing inequality in the world (but, within countries, not between them) is leading to more and more abuse and more and more manipulation on an ideological basis, to the point where civilization is threatened." Can you provide some examples where you believe th...

I may be a little dense, but please explain to me how government IMPOSES poverty.

Obviously government did not IMPOSE poverty on me and it apparently was not IMPOSED upon you.

So who is it imposed upon and how is it imposed?

Thank you for being patient with me!

The "homeless" people you speak of are homeless due to their own addictions of mental illnesses. They are surrounded by the opulence they could be taking part of. You are writing on this computer ... you are not homeless. So are you (and the others on this site) somehow being propped up by...

We are living in the most opulent time in human history. The biggest problem faced by poor people in western cultures of obesity. They get too much to eat while laving little or no exercise to do. In America the lower 30% pay no income taxes and actually receive money back as a tax-rebate welfare pr...

It has been well documented throughout history that wealth leads to FEWER children. Though I know of no good explanation for why this occurs. The richer people within every society tend to have fewer children than the poor in that same society and wealthier societies as a whole have lower birthrates...

There is a new theory in moral and political philosophy called “Dual Morality.” It proposes that just as we evolved the five physical senses of sight, smell, touch, hearing and taste to help us navigate our material environment of trees and tornadoes, so too did we evolve two distinct “social senses...