“People who devote their lives to studying something often come to believe that the object of their fascination is the key to understanding everything.” ― Jonathan Haidt ast year around the time of the tragic death of George Floyd we saw a very coordinated public campaign on Social Justice in response, that seemingly permeated every facet…
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – Chauncey Depew Last November I launched WithdrawConsent.org as the first step in an intentional journey toward self-ownership and self-discovery. I don’t see a point where this site ever goes into auto-pilot, but I hope that…
“Corporations cannot commit treason, nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no souls.”- Edward Coke istorically, capitalism has been denounced by opponents as heartless and greedy. In contemplating this characterization, I find that critics are not necessarily wrong. The profit motive of capitalism is born in maximizing returns, and the system itself is not concerned…
“The death of one man: that is a catastrophe. One hundred thousand deaths: that is a statistic!” – Kurt Tucholsky ack in September of 2007, there was an article on Cracked.com about a scientific theory called The Monkeysphere. I would encourage you to read it in order to provide some context to this piece, but…
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder?” ― Ayn Rand n a prior post titled ‘Redefining Our Terms’ I asked you to consider that in a sharply…
“Where there’s a microscope, there’s always a slide.” – Columbo his particular topic may hit home for a particular demo of the Baby Boomer pedigree more so than others. I, myself, am not of that persuasion. And of course, by persuasion, I’m referring to the Columbo fans of the world. If you are, then based on…
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” ― Charles Darwin s I write, Impeachment round 2 of Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States is being deliberated in the United States Senate. No doubt a bunch of…
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine” ― Fernando Pessoa n a prior post titled The Faustian Bargain, I warned about the dangers of…
“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”― Edward Snowden ife is a series of buying and selling. Some things you inherit from birth, like abilities, time, material possessions, or rights. …
hallenging fraud is as American as Apple Pie… or at least it should be. I recently put up this post in a hurry in order to not lose the spreadsheet created, but here is the gist of the post: Following the Capitol incursion on 01/06/2021, the press, the political class and their allies in big…
“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the…
ne of the greatest mental hurdles that I find in withdrawing consent is doing so in isolation. A clip from the motion picture ‘The Matrix’ comes to mind, where the protagonist, Neo, is offered a Red Pill and a Blue Pill by Morpheus, the mentor and oracle. Should he choose the Red Pill, his eyes…
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” – Pericles ictured above is a version of ‘The Peaceable Kingdom’ by Edward Hicks. One of 62 versions of paintings by the same title and artist. Hicks was an early 19th Century American Painter and Quaker…
was asked today to explain my belief that we’re dealing with a massive conspiracy I like to call the #GetTrumpHailMary. In not wanting to retype these ideas 100 times over, I’m immortalizing them in a FB Note. This is a stream of thought so ideas may not connect with you and if you ask for…