These are words in my reading that resonated with me and some random thoughts of my own.
The left has long been addicted to the most desired thing in intellectual life today—transgressive edginess, hip nonconformity. … different labels and buzzy phrases: institutional racism, antiracism, anticolonialism
What they all share is a desire to seem authentically rebellious by attacking the foundations of our nation and our civilization.
The problem is that such ideological non-conformity has become so institutionalized that it’s become an expression of ideological conformity
Jonah Goldberg The Dispatch 23 Jan 2024
Is it ironic that there has been an Indian (from India) presidential candidate? There has also been a half Indian Vice-President. Additionally, there are a number of Indian Presidential advisers. Yet, there is no native American Indian in any high government post…
Not How but Why?
This is what the the leading podcaster/ influencer thinks about marketing:
“ It’s nearly always cheaper, easier and more effective to invest in perception than reality “
“Remarkably, the close button in most lifts doesn’t actually work. Lift doors are designed to close after a certain amount of time, for safety and legal reasons…. This illusionary placebo creates the impression of control, decreases uncertainty, makes you feel safer…increases customer satisfaction.”
“Do not wage a war on reality, invest in shaping perceptions.
Our truth is not what we see.
Our truth is the story we choose to believe”
We believe that we are rational
“Our decisions aren’t driven by sense, they’re driven by the nonsense created by social cues, irrational fear and survival instincts “
Stephen Bartlett: Diary of a CEO
Is he saying ‘deceive to achieve‘?
It’s not that I disagree, but that it is very sad.
Bureaucracy has swamped democracy, radical reform is the only solution. Elon Musk and the Donald agree with me.
Interesting ABC News article declaiming the dwindling number of female ministers since that door was opened.
Maybe the Anglican bishops should implement an accelerated advancement for female ministers or seek divine intervention?
Guess who?
“One way he differs from every other president of my lifetime is that sometimes he just says stuff and no one, including some of his own aides, knows whether he means it or not. With good reason: Understanding his motives requires untangling a rat’s nest of strategic considerations, “dark triad” personality traits, anger-control issues, and insatiable avarice, all of it soaked in the logic of populist propaganda in which he’s constantly dousing himself.
Nick Cartoggio The Dispatch
This seems to be the general response to President Trump’s kind offer of refugee status for Afrikaners in South Africa: “Ik wil niet loopen, k’ben een Africaander, al slaat den Landdrost myn doot, of al setten hij myn in den tronk ik sal nog wil niet swijgen.” (Translation from Dutch: I do not want to leave, I am an Afrikaner. Even if the magistrate kills me, or puts me in jail, I will still not keep quiet.) — Hendrik Briebouw, 6 March 1707, at the Stellenbosch Magistrates’ Court.
It’s St Valentine’s Day – love the one you are with!
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