Monthly Archives: July 2024

Human individuals fear insignificance. We work to counter or fill this emptiness with Self-Righteous Pretense or with Reasoned Action or with a mixture from somewhere along that spectrum. Hope: an unburst bubble. Active Hope: hope filled with reasoned action. Reasoned … Continue reading →

Suddenly, instead of same old vs. same old it has become fist-pumping blood-spattered hillbilly American patriotism vs. Same old same old. And in recent decades we have become an either/or nation incapable of subtlety, finesse, or autonomous individual change. So … Continue reading →

Shingles triggers hives that bring on stress that exacerbates both Shingles and hives. Political divisiveness triggers bombast that brings on closed-minded ignorance that exacerbates both divisiveness and bombast. Power triggers self-importance that brings on indifference that exacerbates both power and … Continue reading →

An efficient bureaucracy works to distract, intimidate, persecute, partially by turning the ‘poor and oppressed’ against each other. How do we just stand by and let this happen? Why do we play so readily into the hands of power? We … Continue reading →