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Earl Killian

Welcome to Earl’s Web Page

Last modified: Tue Jun 3 06:44:05 PDT 2008

Greetings!

My name is Earl Killian. This is my personal web page. I like to read (history, politics, fiction, science, science fiction), and these pages contain pointers to a few books I recommend and pointers to interesting things on the web. I like to muse on the way things should be and these pages include some of my thoughts and ideas. I am vegan and a supporter of animal rights, and these pages include a few quotes and pointers on these subjects. We have two battery powered electric vehicles (a Solectria Force and a Toyota RAV4EV). There is a little about these cars on the Kilee Manor pages. We are in the process of building a solar (passive solar heating plus PV), straw bale home for ourselves, but that is covered at the Kilee Construction and Build It Green’s Santa Clara County Home Tour 2006, Home #3 pages. I want to get direct fossil fuel use out of our day-to-day lives completely, and the EVs and the house will get us most of the way here, especially with the EVs powered by just sunshine. Finally, I am a believer in non-violence and pacifism, and my politics and values reflect that.

The opinions expressed herein are my own and do not reflect upon any organization, despite any association I might have.

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Any group of people that perceives itself as a distinct group, and which is so perceived by the outside world, may be called a tribe. The group might be a race, as ordinarily defined, but it need not be; it can just as well be a religious sect, a political group, or an occupational group. The essential characteristic of a tribe is that it should follow a double standard of morality—one kind of behavior of in-group relations, another for out-group.

It is one of the unfortunate and inescapable characteristics of tribalism that it eventually evokes counter-tribalism (or, to use a different figure of speech, it polarizes society).

— Garrett Hardin, Journal of Urban Law, April 1971

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