The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Ayn Rand’s central paradigm is a dichotomy between those she calls makers and takers. The makers, in her opinion, are the industrialists. And the takers are people who favor any kind of government social program or anyone who relies on such a program. But perhaps the most accurate paradigm for the 20th and 21st centuries …
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The Second Enlightenment Has Emerged: We Should Call It What It Is Have you ever noticed that there’s no convenient, sufficient, or satisfying way to pull all the threads together of all the inter-related branches of wisdom that we’re always talking about? despite the fact that they all seem to be part of the same …
This is a response to Owl’s post Owl: Public Awake, Major Media Shredded — the Revolution IS Being Televised! CNN is having ratings problems. If their subterfuge in Boston becomes common knowledge they will loose credibility and even more viewers. It would be a shot fired across the bow of every other news network. All …
A very concise and salient, 213 word essay on wisdom, by Alan Nordstrom: What Wisdom Requires eight high points: 1. regulate our behavior sanely and rationally 2. comprehend the consequences of our decisions and customs 3. practice kindness toward others who are similarly struggling to thrive 4. practice humane behavior and transcend the brute instinct …
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Abnormalcy bias is an excellent term for describing the dynamic of society gone mad. Psychiatrist R.D. Laing also believed that human society has gone mad. It’s hard to find good ways to explain it, but in the first paragraph of the following article, Aldous Huxley explained it very well: Abnormalcy Bias The first paragraph is …
That’s quite convenient for his prosecutors. Of course that doesn’t mean that he can’t write. But it means that he’ll have difficulty communicating even with his lawyer, if he gets one, because it will all depend on how well he can communicate his thoughts through writing. And it means that there will be a hard …
People who knew them are saying that they didn’t fit the profile, that they loved America, were happy to be here, and were fun-loving guys who were involved in sports and other things. Of course people are complex and people change, but it also makes it look like they could possibly be patsies. The government …
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