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My “course” is all about rationality, reasonableness and critical thinking.

As I had mentioned it lays out a roadmap as to where we should be trying to go as a species. It also identifies what we should be trying to avoid.

It might sound a little crazy but when you analyze what I’ve come up with it’s amazingly simple. And instead of avoiding the reality of some of the problems we’re facing it helps to navigate some of the things that aren’t going to change immediately.

So in a way it’s kind of a tool to keep our eyes in the horizon and keep focused on what’s in the collective best interest of the human race as a species in the long run. (The trouble is that we don’t have much time because of the fact that the biggest problems that are facing us are coming at us in an increasingly accelerated rate).

If you look at the challenges we’re facing, amongst the greatest falls into the realm of international relations. This is why John Mearsheimer’s work, his theory and the logic that he uses to come up with solutions to the problems in that realm are so relevant.

If one uses the roadmap analogy when critiquing my course, as crazy as it might sound, it identifies the desired destination. It identifies what to try to avoid. It explains how to avoid potholes and get around roadblocks. It itself is in fact the road. It itself is the vehicle.

And by both starting the journey and steering the vehicle it makes for the basis of a very good political platform, a kind of non-religious religion, and the basis for the operating system for artificial intelligence.

If you take a look at the class called “Humility” that class is made up of Howard Zinn’s presentation at MIT. It’s also made up of Howard Zinn’s critique of Obama at a panel discussion at Boston College. If one were to have used John Mearsheimer’s theory of offensive realism and taken his advice along with taking Howard Zinn’s concept of Humilty we would have avoided a lot of pain and suffering and we’d be a lot further ahead.

If you take the class on “Rationality versus Superstition” which is made up of YouTube videos of Isaac Asimov, Sir David Attenborough, Carl Sagon and Neal DeGrasse Tyson and compare that to what’s put forth by almost all of the organized religions it points to the fact that rational, reasonable critical thinking will get us much further down the road to trying to get to where we should try to be than nonsense.

In summary, my course provides a complete set of answers to the types of questions we should be asking. It also provides a concrete roadway to try to get to where we need to be.

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