Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. —Leo Tolstoy Have you read War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy? This Russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all…
Don’t get too excited, but I’m writing a book. This is the reason for the long delay between Part 1 and Part 2 of this post. As Ben Franklin put it, either I’m trying to write something worth reading or I’m doing something worth writing—the story of my life. If…
As I was scrolling through news, it occurred to me that “reading between the lines” and connecting information is an uncommon skill in today’s American society. People are too busy projecting their own turpitudes on adversaries and spewing out diktats like bullets. Or they are just quiet, because they think…
We have surpassed $30T in U.S. national debt, and that doesn’t even include all the obligations (medicare, social security, pensions, etc.). How long does it take to count to a trillion? 31,709.79 years to count to a trillion. What’s 31,709.79 years multiplied by 30.16 (the current US debt)? 956,367.2664 years…
I’m learning that you don’t always need words to describe things. If you are a person who likes to think—critically—then you will appreciate my lack of words in this post. The above clip comes from World Population Growth, Our World in Data. The massive growth in population is a direct…
We are in the middle of winter here in Michigan, and I counted six deer sleeping outside in the snowy woods behind my house today. While I dread the cold, there is something calming about winter that I notice every year. Something that helps me recognize and appreciate the miracle…
Society is in a quandary, a sort-of narrative-driven hypnosis. Remember how the pandemic replaced the trade war with China? Have you heard about that trade war or agreement in a while? Probably not, but the U.S. trade deficit is now greater than ever. Today, all eyes are on the Russo-Ukrainian…
Happy new year! Out with the stale old—in with the fresh new. I started out the year thinking about all the things I want and need to get done in 2022. I’m now a half century old, and it’s time to get more serious about my health. On January 1st,…
American psychologist James Hillman said, “The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state…
I was reading something today that reminded me of Sir John Bagot Glubb. After studying eleven empires from the Assyrians in 859 B.C. to the British in 1950, he outlined the seven stages of empire which always unfold in the same way, from beginning to end. These stages are… The…
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