The worship of fear gives us the ability to feel as if we are gods. We have named our enemy, and we can exert power over him ...
In democracy, people avoid controversy because it loses votes and your enemies exploit that fact. Realism however demands ...
People cannot think, or rather, avoid thinking because instead they aim for maintaining their own emotional state through symbols. This is what happens when people become individualists, or those who ...
In politics, as in everything else, timing matters. Most people do not know what time it is, and are still acting as if they ...
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Non-conformity

You are either transcendentalist, or guided by the beauty of life toward affirmative and positive goals of further creating goodness, or you are an individualist stranded in your self and social ego.
However, over time these barebones civilizations create a proliferation of rules because no one got a career advancement or won a second term by saying “this is the best it gets, deal with it.” ...
In the meantime, the first step was taken twenty-four years ago when the writer Michel Houellebecq criticized Islam, got ...
It took relatively little to kick off the Second American Civil War, but Texas candidate for Railroad Commissioner Bo French ...
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön defined “learning” as the detection and correction of error. Single-loop learning corrects the ...
The modern mind is drowning in input and starving on output. That is the top-down view of the story and everything else is a subplot. We have more access to other people’s thoughts than any generation ...
More pacifism: citizens want people who are unlikely to rock the boat and cause conflict, but one wonders if the citizens are not simply digging themselves a deep hole.
This topic is starting to go mainstream: people are tired of casual sex, bondless marriages, and cheating spouses who behave like sociopaths. We realize now that the Sexual Revolution was a mistake ...