"Capitalist propaganda always managed to make people think the markets' interests were humanity's interests".
I follow the arrow taco-ward, staring at my iPhone the way I once glanced at humanity, with interest and anticipation.
Animal still life hunting or market scenes, butcher stalls, kitchen pantries―were transformed from static displays to vibrant collections of specimens shown to best advantage, colored with symbolism, and injected with humanity and interest.
In the last two years, in part because Habitat for Humanity is interested in "green buildings," Brooklyn Woods has been using materials like bamboo, a fast-growing and thus rapidly renewable wood, and domestic hardwoods supplied by companies that avoid practices like clear-cutting forests.
Repeated engagements over time can build trust as participants come to appreciate their common humanity and interests, despite their differing positions.
To tear up the (mental) maps that unhelpfully divide people according to national, race, gender, religious or other stereotypes and replace them with new ones that recognise our common humanity and interests.
Alexander Pope's famous couplet in An Essay on Man (1733) ("Know then thyself, presume not God to scan/ The proper study of mankind is man") expresses well the intense interest humanity gains in itself within the context of the Enlightenment, as a partial substitute for its traditional interest in God and the transcendent domain.
Like "the mind of God," scientific assessment of troubled, conflict-ridden situations would persuasively reveal humanity's general interests, discrediting pursuit of partisan, particular interests.
My concern is that many of the biases in the way knowledge and information are organized on the Web are not necessarily in humanity's best interest.
It's been said of horror fiction that readers go to it because humanity has an interest in that which we fear.
