After the Blue Cities Commit Suicide, What’s Next?
The imagery of the movie Independence Day is a perfect illustration of what is happening in our blue cities.
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Breaking: Unlike California, Mars Could Have Supported Life
The Mars probe Curiosity is currently on our planetary neighbor conducting scientific research. It discovered that conditions on the red planet could have supported life in the distant past. What went wrong?
Standards are the Raw Materials of Virtue: He Who Controls the Standards, Controls Behavior
Standards are the Raw Materials of Virtue: He Who Controls the Standards, Controls Behavior In one sense, virtue is how a society controls and manages behavior. Some systems and societies use virtue to produce beneficent outcomes, while others use virtue, at least as the societal standards define it, to produce power and control. Religions historically …
America’s Headlong Rush Back to Slavery
We’re told by the left that our history of slavery is America’s original sin. So, why is the left demanding a headlong rush back to slavery
Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis
Critical Thinking and Policy Development and Analysis This blog builds upon Part 4: Policy Development. It is the opening part of a series on critical thinking and policy development and analysis. It provides the framework, as shown in the opening figure, for policy development and analysis. Following parts will use this framework to assess some …
PayPal Announces It Will Debit $2,500 from Users’ Accounts If They Hold the Wrong Opinion
PayPal recently notified users they may be sanctioned up to $2,500 for promoting “misinformation” over the internet or if the company determines they “present a risk to user safety or wellbeing.” The amendments to their “Acceptable Use Policy” will take effect on November 3. The full list of “Prohibited Activities” can be viewed here. The update …
A Solutions-based Approach to Social Justice
A solutions-based approach requires critical thinking, objective analysis, and unbiased data. Leaders need to facilitate effective discourse and dialog.
Preparing the Mind to Avoid the Two Graves of Revenge
The mind is a funny thing and what we bring into our thoughts shapes them and either reinforces prejudice and bias or cleanses them. If we want to avoid the two graves of revenge, we need clear, critical thinking.
Do Not Dig Two Graves
Confucius was a pretty smart guy. His comment on revenge is spot on. We see it playing out now with the social justice movement. For many in Black Lives Matter (BLM) and other social justice organizations, the social justice movement is perhaps more about revenge than it is about justice.
Reconstructing History, Part 4: Multiple Punctured Equilibriums
Since 2020, the US has gone through a series of trigger events that upset the established order. The two events in 2020, COVID-19 and the George Floyd death, broke a strong path dependency in American history, opening the way for Critical Race Theory and the 1619 Project to re-write American history. Then the Virginia elections in Fall 2021 called that newly emerging equilibrium into question. As Americans were starting to sort out these issues, Russia invaded Ukraine, adding further complexity and uncertainty.