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Do Americans   disbelieve   in privilege for purely ideological reasons, or is it due to a basic misunderstanding? Photo by   Arseny Togulev   on  Unsplash . . Originally Published on Medium . . Privilege seems to be most fiercely denied, or downplayed when it comes to skin-color, and somewhat less so, gender. Yet, Americans, who seem to discount the prevalence of privilege in every way, surely cannot believe there is no such thing as privilege, except conceding that a person with considerably more wealth than another person is privileged. To that end,   what other areas of life do we see privilege playing out on a daily basis? . Most of these other categories of privilege are not politically or ideologically challenged. Particularly, if I mentioned these categories in a one-on-one conversation, without mentioning skin color or gender privilege. While you, and I are not in a face-to-face venue now, I hope to provide some context about how privilege seeps in...

Cranking Power Without The Advanced Portion …  (Photo by The New York Public Library / Unsplash ) First published on Medium . . Coming up with a great idea you must “sell” to most every American before it even becomes a great idea, would be where a crank is a crank for many cranking years, decades, or… What do I do if it is only a half good idea, and someone makes it a great idea, or just “sells” my idea better than I do? Questions such as this keep me up nights. Well, at least get me up earlier than usual. Or keep me mostly awake during the day… Via Urban Dictionary. . Do I sell such an idea by putting my finger up in the air to gauge which way the political marketing wind is blowing, or do I explain it the way I believe it must be explained to show how strong my confidence is in it? Okay. Fine. Then what if that takes decades to get to the right person? And I am gone, and the person who finds it says, “I wish I would have known about this idea earlier, or the crank was still...

Essay first published on Medium . My goal would be to create something self contained, politically impenetrable , and separate from the current edifice rather than restructuring it. Speeding up reform is near impossible if we only use the political set up we have now. And, human-caused climate change is an existentially urgent pusher of the need for speed. . Holding down the high temperature average on our planet to “only” a 1.5 degree celsius rise, requires a worldwide 98% reduction of CO2 emissions by 2040. To get anywhere near that is impossible with the political and corporate powered process we currently have. . Yes, a 2.0 degree average rise is much worse: 37% of the world’s population is subject to severe heatwaves, about every five years; with a 1.5 degree rise, about a third less, or 14% are subject to those severe heatwaves. *And multiple other global warming influenced calamities throughout those years. . For citizens of the world to push back enough to make a substantial ...