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…
“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….
“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…
“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:…
“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…
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.” —John F. Kennedy…
“All warfare is based on deception” —Sun Tzu, The Art of War Last week, a strange video came out with symbolism and a chant that made President Trump look like the Antichrist to those who know the Bible. When I first saw the news, it sounded as if it were…
“Outstanding, sophisticated, and mesmerizing…a spiritual intrigue similar to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code.” —ForeWord Reviews