“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of reality.” — George Orwell Last week, I tackled the grueling task of removing the popcorn ceiling from my bedroom—a relic of an era when builders sprayed textured coatings for ease of use and ability…
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” —Aldous Huxley, Author of Brave New World If you are old enough to remember the rise of the digital age, you probably recall the split: when paper photographs became pixels, when handwritten letters turned into emails and…
“It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.” —Henry Ford A New Monetary Era Begins: Born Into Fiat On this day, I was born 54 years ago—just…
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” — Leonardo da Vinci Some call this the Age of AI. Others, the Age of Technology. I call it the Age of Complexity—an era in which the scaffolding of life has grown so dense that even the smallest change sends tremors through the whole structure….
On Tesla, Charisma, and the Illusion of Value in the Age of Narrative Capital “The more a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” — George Orwell Something curious has happened to markets over the past two and a half decades: they’ve lost their…
“Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.” —Frank Zappa In an era of livestreamed diplomacy and viral politics, global affairs have become a theater of spectacle. Traditional diplomacy is increasingly sidelined by political theater, as leaders bypass state channels to deliver unfiltered declarations via social media. Strategic announcements…
“They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator.” — Romans 1:25 Last week, I watched footage of Billy Graham’s historic New York Crusade at Yankee Stadium. Over 100,000 people gathered to hear him preach, a turnout that surpassed capacity….
“While the crowd cheers the circus, the house of cards collapses unnoticed.” — Adapted from Juvenal In a country obsessed with celebrity stories and political drama, a far more serious crisis is taking hold. America’s housing market is falling apart, and the debt-heavy economy is starting to wobble. Last weekend,…
“People don’t have ideas. Ideas have people.” — Carl Jung Most people believe they own their ideas—but Jung, one of the most profound psychological engineers of all time, saw it the other way around: ideas own us. Few slogans demonstrate this better than the seductive call to “Save Democracy.” It…
“In the silence of the heart, God speaks. In the labor of the hands, the soul is restored.” — adapted from Mother Teresa and Catholic tradition This past week, I spent days on my knees, cutting through dense grass and loosening soil to build a new vegetable garden. The work…
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