Category: New Ways of Thinking
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Maybe Our Takeaway From Trumpism SHOULD Be: We Didn’t Punish Richard Nixon Nearly Hard Enough
There is a direct link between Richard Nixon and Donald J Trump. Or should I say links… There’s the ‘thematic’ one of course — the ‘Country Club Authoritarianism’ personified by Roger Stone… …that views American political norms and anyone not in their club with disdain and disgust. This is the ‘Silent Majority’ part of the link…
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If Bullshit Had A ‘Hall Of Fame’…
Bullshit comes with being Human. We don’t know yet if Bullshit comes with being sentient; do other animals capable of conscious thought LIE to each other when necessary? Why would we assume they didn’t? I’m just saying — Lying and Bullshit seem so natural to us that it could be an organic outgrown of having…
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Hey, America — Next Time, Let’s Take Better Care of Our Democracy, Okay?
There’s a Joni Mitchell song — pretty well known — with a lyric that goes something like this — They paved paradise And put up a parking lot With a pink hotel, a boutique And a swinging hot spot Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got ‘Till it’s gone…
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The Urge To “Off Yourself” Explained
Three days before Christmas 2016, I was close enough to killing myself that my two GPs wanted to hospitalize me. But I refused. I had gone there to take one last ‘stab’ at saving myself. I was at such a nakedly emotional, impulsive place that I was capable at any moment of acting out in…
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Want My Vote? First Question: Is Your Core ‘Belief System’ Based On Real Or RUBBISH?
Here’s the conundrum atheists have faced at each and every election. We have to cast a ballot for people making Life & Death decisions for us. At the presidential level those are LITERAL Life & Death Decisions. A POTUS has the power to literally wipe out huge chunks of humanity. Not ‘quite’ with the press…
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Suicide Is Just ‘Bullshit’ Claiming Another Victim
Tough week if you’re in the Suicide Prevention Business. Kate Spade… Anthony Bourdain — and those are just the famous suicides. I bet there are ‘a few more’ suicides out there — you’ve just never heard the names before. After Donald Trump was ‘elected’ (he was not elected — you don’t get to literally STEAL…
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Here’s The Question: Is Integrity Dead?
You can chip away at a lot of things — and still have them. Living in California as I do, ‘Paradise’ comes to mind. There’s that lyric to that great Eagles song (the last cut on ‘Hotel California’) “The Last Resort”: “They called it ‘Paradise’, I don’t know why… Call someplace ‘Paradise’ — Kiss it…
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Disruption Good, Disruption Bad
We’ll never get to know — those of us living in the ‘Right Here Right Now’ — how our Time will be perceived by those who come long after us. Perspective sucks that way. To get the really, really good perspective — well, ‘You can’t there from here’ (as the say up in Maine). We…
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Americans Are SUCKERS For Words. Literally
Most Americans have never been especially good at ‘English’ — at speaking it, writing it, understanding it… Throw in the priggish moral scold that sits on their shoulders — and you get a strange disconnect from the thing they need most to communicate with each other: The Language. Now, to be fair, we live in…