Forensic examination of Western duplicity

August 20, 2025

This is one of the most perceptive and revealing examinations of the vast gap between our vaunted values and our real world practice that I have seen anywhere. Her analysis is couched in academic discourse and logic, but with the vital addition of the other human attributes that must exist together with it if reason is to be brought back to any objectively observable reality.

I am grateful to Pam for her clarity of thought and her willingness to deal objectively with the differences between who we claim we are and who we actually are! She unflinchingly examines the contrast between the values we claim against our lived history and, as George Santayana so perceptively observed, have failed to learn the lessons of that history and so are doomed to repeat it.

If we are to live up to the values that we say are the defining characteristics of who we are, we first need to accept our present and past abject failure to do so!