“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”—Carl Jung Introduction: Jung’s Lens in a Fractured World Over the last few weeks, I’ve been deep in the work of Carl Jung—a Swiss psychologist whose insights into the psyche, archetypes, and the collective…
“The president reigns for four years, and journalism governs forever and ever.” — Oscar Wilde Dang, I’m so ready to smell the fresh air of spring, get outside in my gardens, work up a sweat running by Lake Michigan, and lounge on the beach this summer. As I write this,…
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” — Flannery O’Connor Flannery O’Connor’s words hit hard as I confront the Middle East—a region where truths are layered, uncomfortable, and easy to ignore. Over coffee last week, I realized I’d long treated its history like background noise:…
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.” — H.L. Mencken America Is Cracking—Can You Feel It? Some see the tremors as natural; others suspect a calculated scheme. I see both:…
“I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.”—John 11:25 (ESV) in honor of Jesus on this Easter Sunday A Curious Experiment A few weeks ago, my son slipped me a chapter from his book about teaming up with AI to…
“A lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.” —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago We are living through a historical anomaly. Unless we change course, future generations will look back on this period as Peak AI (Peak Asinine Intelligence), where one nation’s debt-backed…
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” —Oscar Wilde Last week, I made a call that one of Trump’s Executive Orders was the turning point. A mandate for the production of minerals, uranium, copper, potash, gold, and any other elements, compounds and materials determined by the Chair of the…
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”― William Patrick Ophuls, Apologies to the Grandchildren: Reflections on Our Ecological Predicament, Its Deeper Causes, and Its Political Consequences On March 20, an unusual Executive Order caught my…
“When confidence goes, the end is very near. It always comes faster than anyone expects and it always seems to be unexpected.” —Bernard of Chartres, 12th-century philosopher and thinker Working in Ecuador from 1996 to 1998, I figured out that currency and money weren’t the same things. It was taking…
“There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality, and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.” – Charles de Gaulle Based on consumption import…