John’s Blog

Political CorrectnessThe recent trend to “Political Correctness”, that is, neither saying nor doing anything that might offend anyone else leads to a society in which everyone is alert to the possibility that someone might be offended. People start to attempt to seek out the slightest gesture of word or deed that they may consider to […]

Specialization
Specialization promotes efficiency. More of anything can be produced if a single person can do repetitive tasks. Assuming that all individuals are capable of all things such as hunting, felling trees, making nets, making pottery, chipping flint for knives and weapons etc we know is untrue. Even within the smallest unit, the family, the members […]