Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas: he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on […]
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.~ Freud Freud and Emotion The Ancients frequently declared existence of the power of the passions, and in their poetry, epics and narratives likewise expressed their lack of confidence in man, in humanity to have the will, the […]
“The most trusted man in America,” Walter Cronkite Warns America of the Coming Ice Age (CBS Broadcast: 9/11/72) Their leader, Pat Robertson, has written that we should have a world government but only when the messiah arrives. Any attempt to achieve world order before that time must be the work of the Devil! Well join […]
Prologue to a Hero’s Life This essay is a Memorial Day tribute to all of the heroic soldiers who gave life and limb, blood and treasure in defense of America’s sacred ideas and ideals – God, Family, Country, and America’s Judeo-Christian traditions. Saving Private Ryan (1998) is an American epic war movie based on perhaps […]
“We are shaped by what we love.” “For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a common man should rust.” ~Geoffrey Chaucer Prologue This essay is on the timeless collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury tales in London England during the 14th-15th centuries. I have found that many of […]
The madman is the dreamer awake. ~ Freud Biography of Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist, researcher and writer who is most celebrated as “the Father of Psychoanalysis.” Freud’s early career was his training as a doctor of medicine receiving his medical degree at the University […]
Belief creates the actual fact. Truth is what works. Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. ~ William James Biography of William James William James (January 11, 1842 – […]
Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain. ~ Dostoyevsky Biography of Dostoyevsky Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (11 November 1821–9 February 1881), was a Russian novelist, polemicist, philosopher, […]
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything. ~ Einstein Prologue: GOP, read the damn Constitution! Did you know that the Republicans who since the 2014 midterm elections have had majorities in both Houses in of Congress, yet what policies have they passed, […]
When Machiavelli Comes to Town: The Dangers of Opportunistic Consulting
“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” ~Niccolò Machiavelli. The Prince (1532). “Unencumbered by government oversight, McKinsey is accountable only to its clients, who expect that their vulnerabilities, mistakes, and business strategies—in order words, […]
“The corruption, crime, and incompetence of the D.C. government has been an embarrassment to our nation’s capital for decades. It is long past time that Congress restored the honor and integrity of George Washington to the beautiful city which bears his name.” ~ Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), speaking on the BOWSER Act “It is […]
Fifth Circuit’s Ruling against “Nasdaq Board Diversity Rule” Safeguards Meritocracy Over Mediocrity
“The evidence presented by Nasdaq in its rule proposal, contrary to its claims, does not show that board diversity provides better returns for shareholders.” ~Excerpt from a Manhattan Institute led amicus curiae brief in the case of Alliance for Fair Board Recruitment vs. SEC. “We will terminate every diversity, equity, and inclusion program across the […]
Magna Carta: 800 years of natural law
o no one will we sell [no slavery], to no one will we refuse or delay right or justice. ~ Magna Carta In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution. ~ Jefferson Prologue to the forgotten Magna […]
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