INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 673 Amsterdam, August 24th, 2017 INTEGRAL AND THE MYTH OF PROGRESS - JOSEPH DILLARD One of the alternative news sites I regularly visit is called ZeroHedge. It is geared toward an audience of financial gamblers, that is brokers, Wall Street financiers, bankers and other people who make obscene profits, essentially by leveraging other people’s money without adding any goods, services or creative contributions to society.[1] Made up of highly intelligent, motivated and competitive people, I call them the “parasitic class” because they essentially make a living off the societal contributions of others. I like reading the comments section at ZeroHedge to get a feeling for just how unhinged so many very smart people in our society can be and to see if any of them are “getting it.” I can tell you that at least a few of them are, indeed, waking up. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/dillard10.html THE AGNOSTIC THINKER - Foreword to a book on Clarence Darrow's Philosophy - ANDREA DIEM-LANE When Spencer Tracy, playing Clarence Darrow in the movie Inherit the Wind, takes the Bible in one hand and On Origin of Species in the other and clasps them together side by side to illustrate how science and religion can work together, one is led to assume that Darrow was indeed a theist evolutionist. But was he? Hollywood's portrayal of him in this classic film is obviously suspect. Instead of supporting theism, Darrow's own writings clearly show his strong support for agnosticism (literally, “not knowing”). This philosophical position--the argument that one cannot know ultimate or metaphysical truths or even whether there are any--fits in line with the teachings of Socrates, Hume, Darwin, Einstein and many other philosophers and scientists today. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane32.html