On QUORA, I was often asked (in different forms): What’s wrong with DEI? Isn’t diversity our strength? No. While there is nothing wrong with diversity per se, merit must always be the focus. Otherwise, corruption, incapacity, and dysfunction will grow. The attached image represents a…
Prologue The MacGuffin is a literary device that moves the plot and characters forward until the story’s culmination. The ring in Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings is an obvious example. Alfred Hitchcock originally coined the term, which appears essential for great storytelling. Yet, the MacGuffin…
That is a qualified no. Emotionally immature people, unable to reason, are tribal. This is the source of the divisiveness humanity sometimes encounters within civilization. Religion does not make emotionally immature people. Instead, they are born that way. Religion, in fact, exists to move people…
Dysrational Movements Are The Adult Face Of Emotional Immaturity The anti-rational (i.e., dysrational) movements Marxism, Nazism, and “wokeism” are dysrational movements. Each shares a common and fundamental…
There are two kinds of capitalism. One sharpens the mind; the other dulls it (in truth, just keeps it dull). We are immersed in the latter one now: Evidence for the latter capitalistic approach is DEI. I have learned through “learningframework.com” (my avocation) that FREE…
On QUORA: How do I know the truth? Truth is established when a hypothesis meets both the necessary and sufficient conditions. Note especially that the proposed hypotheses must be disprovable. In other words, one and only one hypothesis is permitted as an explanation for the observed. This requirement is essential…
It’s a tell. Here’s a corollary to the above statement: The dysrational/irrational love democracy (mob/majority rule), while the rational love individualism (i.e., liberalism). The Constitutional Republic protects individualism. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant by the following: “[…] that these dead shall not have died…
What is the World Economic Forum? A very dangerous (global) clown car. However, it is NOT FUNNY. I’ll let a couple of the WEF luminaries should speak for themselves: Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never….
What lies beyond postmodernism? Reason, and only that. Welcome it. Our current civilization depends upon it. A concise history of human thinking: Click here to see a bigger image. The premise of an objective natural reality, a reality whose existence and properties are logically independent…
No. FIRST (crucially): AI is a decision-making solution. Humans must make societal decisions themselves, as individuals, respecting their personal wants and experiences, and accepting completely the negative or positive consequences of their decision. Otherwise, in time, and now unable to make their own decisions, they…
See the full-size image here. The Rise and Decline of Western Civilization Is Western democracy a failure because it is just a façade to a corrupt oligarchy that primarily serves the interests of the very wealthy? No. Western civilization is struggling. This happened because of a collapse…
What institutional pre-conditions are necessary for the dynamic process of capitalism? Key/central/integral to capitalism is freedom. This is why the American Constitution is sublime. So long as the people are able, the American constitutional republic makes possible and protects their freedom. Capitalists/Americans do not have leaders. They lead…
What do the majority of y’all think of 2A rights? The LEGAL protection [1] (as opposed to a human right) of a right to bear arms is key to human freedom. And, there is demonstrably no substitute for it. I wish there was. Weapons are…
Quora Question: If every claim in science is open for change, does that mean that none of them are true? Yes. Amazingly. Science is the search for absolute truth. No one can know it absolutely, though (i.e., proven). Even the faithful of religions do not…
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