What is one to make of a religion purportedly of peace which murders so many so ruthlessly. Consider the situation in Nigeria where Muslims are going door to door murdering Christian men, women and children.
Is it wiser to judge someone by their words, or by their actions?
Evolution is misunderstood by many and for many different reasons.
Some cannot bear to think that we are evolved from monkeys.
This is an unnecessary concern since no person knowledgeable regarding evolution maintains that we evolved from monkeys
What is maintained is that we, and all apes, evolved from the same ancestor, which is why we share so much of our DNA with our primate brethren.
The primary driver of civilization is often misattributed to any number of things, including religion.
The truth is that the real explanation for civilization is the fact that when man's brain finally developed to the point where he was capable of grasping the force multiplier of cooperation, he for the most part left off the destruction of his enemies, and began to either rule over them or cooperate with them to accomplish things he could never have accomplished without their help.
That is to...
It is no accident that all Socialist type uprisings are led by members of the elite pampered class.
So, while such uprisings are always portrayed as being led by the working class, nothing could be further from the truth.
Every one of them was and is being led by a wealthy person who has never built anything in their entire life.
The mayor elect of New York City is no exception.
The only job he has ever held in his pampered life, is that of protest marcher.
He has not so much as operated a...
Probably no feeling is more discouraging and emotionally draining than that of helplessness.
The belief that there is nothing one can do, much like a person stuck in quicksand.
There is a certain type of helplessness which strikes me as being the worst, since it is self-inflicted and thus avoidable.
The term for it is 'Learned Helplessness' which was coined by the psychologist Martin Seligman.
Essentially, it means a psychological condition where an individual feels powerless to change their...
In light of recent events, think NYC, it might be a good time to reread George Orwell's 'Animal Farm'.
Doing so will provide you with a roadmap of where things, at least in that locale, are headed.
There are basically two types of anxiety. Specific and free floating.
Specific anxiety is the type one feels before an important job interview or speech.
Free floating anxiety on the other hand, has no specific cause or focus.
That's why it is referred to as free floating.
Specific anxiety is normal; free floating anxiety is not.
Recently I wrote a piece on man's search for certainty.
A closely related concept is man's desire for control.
Most of us do not deal well with being out of control, as it elicits fear.
Control and certainty are conceptual cousins.
Those who have neither the facts nor sound arguments on their side must resort to childish tactics such as intimidation, bullying, character assassination or slanderous name-calling in their efforts to prevail in the political sphere.
I have on more than one occasion been advised to appeal more to people's emotions in my writing and not just their reason.
I could never bring myself to do such a thing.
I consider all such appeals to be manipulative and disingenuous.
I have no interest in being either.
I would much prefer to be less effective than to be inauthentic.
I believe it was Confucius who cautioned us not to judge the validity of something by the person who was propounding it.
This admonition is akin to the logical fallacy of the ad hominem argument.
That person is not admirable, therefore, nothing he says can be true.
This constitutes a serious error in judgment and perhaps a serious lazy tendency as well.
Any proposition, opinion or proposal must be judged on its own merits, and nothing else.
Affirmative action is nothing but racism and no good arguments exist to morally support it.
It is based upon a seriously defective and harmful principle.
The principle is that under certain circumstances it can be necessary to punish some for things they never did and reward others for things they never did.
In other words, some people who look like one group may have done something a very long time ago to people of another group. Therefore, it is appropriate to punish members of the first...
All racism is based in ignorance. An ignorance that believes a person can be understood, and should be judged based upon certain inherent and immutable characteristics.
However, ignorance should never be illegal and is impervious to legal sanctions.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked a serious deviation from the heroic fight to obtain equal rights before the law for the black population. It crossed a very important line and we have been reaping the consequences ever since.
That line was the one...
I believe it was Ben Shapiro who said that the facts don't care about your feelings. The other side of that truth coin is that feelings don't care about the facts.
This is why you cannot reason people out of a position that they didn't arrive out using reason.
One very important explanation for the rise of Socialist tendencies among the young is that they are struggling economically and don't see a bright future ahead. That is the appeal of the Democratic Socialists of America's policy platform.
Unfortunately, it cannot succeed.
This provides an opportunity for those on the right to provide solutions for these very real problems which actually can work.
I came upon a couple of interesting terms recently. The first, 'telescopic philanthropy' was coined by Charles Dickens to describe the behavior of people like Mrs. Jellyby in his 'Bleak House' who concerns herself with the conditions of natives in Niger while neglecting her own children.
The second, 'telescopic morality' was coined by one of my favorite British authors and public intellectuals.
He defined the term to mean "... the feeling that, by espousing some cause in the abstract, and...
It is a life and death issue for parasites that they avoid killing their host.
If they do, and have not found another host to migrate to, their days are numbered.
When one observes the parasitic 'Social Democrats' of the day in their incessant demand for free things paid for by the productive, they can only wonder when this tipping point will be reached.
The left hates billionaires. At least that's what we're told.
The facts however tell a rather more nuanced story.
So, Musk is actually not hated so much for his wealth, but rather for his positions on social issues.
It strikes me as ironical, if not downright hypocritical, that no one on the left bats an eye at billionaire Soros' organization spending 50 million dollars on Zamdani's campaign?
It should surprise no one with an IQ north of 80 that after decades of teaching (by state run institutions) a people to hate their civilization, they should vote to dismantle it.
The leaders in this brainwashed vanguard are leftist white women who consider trashing their civilization as a badge of moral honor.
Long before we are faced with a moral choice, we have been methodically and mostly unconsciously, piecing together a moral philosophy or value system which will guide our moral choices in the future.
Consequently, very little actual thinking needs to occur at the moment of choice.