Category Archives: Philosophy

I ask for discussion; you quote from the rulebook. I ask for acknowledgement; you perform a song and dance. I ask for consideration; you file a report. I ask for justice; you make excuses. I ask for compassion; you condescend. … Continue reading →

It is easiest to get worked up over personal injustice, it is more difficult to get worked up over injustice served to others even when the injustice is similar to or the same as a personal injustice, it is often … Continue reading →

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, … Continue reading →

This week I jumped through hoops. There was the preventative health hoop, the bureaucratic hoop, the authoritarian hoop, the capitalist hoop; all more pronounced this week, creating more discomfort and more pain than they do most weeks. I found it … Continue reading →

To justify the-existence-of-one-thing-at-the-expense-of-another. It is the relationship that is disconcerting. The one-thing can be one’s self; usually a rich, powerful and/or entitled self. The one-thing can be an ideology, or a doctrine, or an organization, or an individual other than … Continue reading →