Leadership and Business
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“Human Capital” is Deficient: the OECD, European Football, and Human Fulfillment
When I say human capital is deficient, I do not refer to wasted productive potential; instead, I refer to a distorted understanding of the relationship between individuals and their advanced industrial environments. Continue reading
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A Polluted Existence
Technology transforms an individual human into a mass person, whose only function is to enter anonymously into production and consumption. On the one side, she is the biological link between machines; on the other side, she is the digestive system through which the products of the technological world pass. Continue reading
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The Commitments of Authentic People
Commitments are important because they stretch over a long time and act as types of buffers and infrastructure that protect us from the equivocations of the human heart. Continue reading
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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 3
Jesus famously said as he was being crucified, ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they are doing.” The human artifice has essentially crucified the human condition. And, like the calamitous natural disasters that characterize a planet in revolt against the industrialization that is characterized by exploitation of the Earth, so too, a populist… Continue reading
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Work, Democracy and Inequality: A Message for the Center-Left, Part 1
“Progressive parties and movements used to be the parties of working people…. but in recent decades, that’s changed in a way that also parallels education.” Continue reading
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Inadequate Political and Moral Categories in Palestine and Israel – Part 2
For it is quite conceivable, and even within the realm of practical political possibilities, that one fine day, a highly organized and mechanized humanity will conclude quite democratically – namely, by majority decision – that for humanity as a whole, it would be better to liquidate certain parts thereof. Continue reading
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In Good Faith: A Palestinian-American’s Story
She described her hometown as a place where people slept with their doors unlocked, where theft was unheard of, and where there were no random acts of violence. Everyone knew each other by name, and assistance to other members of the community was a matter of course, and nothing exceptional. Continue reading
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Organized Lying About Palestine
If we are paying attention, we should have noticed the practice of organized lying. Continue reading
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The Avatar, Authenticity and Why Palestinians are Returning to Northern Gaza
Authenticity, as the Palestinians are manifesting, invests in home, in land, and in community instead of ideological notions of a “Zionist” state, Continue reading
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The Evil in Claiming, “Terrorist” – and the Al Ahli Hospital
The “terrorist” label is often an unwarranted shortcut to the imaginary moral high road. Continue reading
About me: I am a career educator and traveler at heart. My written work includes academic writing in philosophy and linguistics, English acquisition, and most intently in the areas of spiritual engagement with reality and what that means for our public lives.
My education is a mixture of formal study in philosophy, political theory, Biblical studies, and history, along with professional teaching certification in TESOL and in cognitive testing, and international teaching.
My travel experiences include a range of countries in Asia, Europe, Africa and North America. I have lived in Canada, the United States, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea and Thailand. From those places I have traveled to many others besides.
I am a child of the 70’s and a “family man.” That means I have two wonderful kids who have been round the world with me.
Lastly, I am married to a wonderful woman since 2004. She is my partner, my friend, and my muse.
Thanks again for stopping by,
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 