Signing Off for Now

Posted Friday, January 8, 2010, at 1:25 PM

Since April of 2009 Jim Frost and I have been writing this blog in order to examine the most critical problems people of the world face today as well as offer our views on solutions.

We have made almost 75 posts, have had well over 3,500 hits, and received dozens of comments. In the huge marketplace of ideas that today's technology makes possible we feel we have made a contribution to the furtherance of progressive and open-minded pursuit of answers to some of the questions that plague us all.

The blog format has been a wonderful medium for us. Among its advantages is that our comments and those of our viewers will be online forever at berkleybedellblog.com. And we will continue to accept comments and respond to them.

But for now we are taking a break to concentrate on another medium--a book that will explain my developing theory that people act the way they do because to survive as a species we have had to be selfish and combative.

The more I look at terrorism, war, governance, capitalism, energy use, medicine, religion and other human activities, the more it seems to me that a pattern emerges. This pattern is based in the inherent and inborn human characteristics, selfishness and fighting.

We will keep you posted about our progress and plan on announcing a publication date that will be sometime in 2010. After its publication, excerpts from the book will be posted on the blog.

Happy New Year--Berkley Bedell.

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Berkley Bedell--Retirement from the U.S. Congress in 1987, neither dulled my interest in the well-being of the people of the United States nor my worries about our governance. I began work in 2006 on a book outlining the country's problems and offering solutions. Jim Frost--I share Berkley's concerns and in 2007 began the job of researching, editing and assisting with writing his book. By early 2009, after finally weathering George W. Bush and recognizing how much the past eight wasted years have set the world back, our focus changed. We had seen no meaningful progress in the efforts to stem the threat of nuclear weapons, reverse global warming, preserve natural resources, reduce military spending, fight disease and hunger, improve health care, deal with the increasing gulf between rich people and poor people, establish a workable economic system, or clean up the political process. For us, these three things became self-evident: First, the problems are global; the U.S. cannot by itself control or solve them. Second, the perfect storm of worldwide catastrophe is already upon us; what must be said cannot wait. Third, in seeking solutions, the problems must be put before as many people as possible as quickly as possible. This blog is the result. There will be much more. We invite you to participate.

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