The meme here came from a reader, whom I advise: If you have liars, haters, cheaters and disloyal people in your life, you don’t need prayers, and you don’t need a new year. You need a new life. Be brave. Seek it out.
At left is a good example of what I mean when I say, “It hasn’t been a good couple of hundred years for philosophers.”
In Locke’s day, the 18th Century, it was the province of philosophy to make statements that today are made by neuroscientists and epigeneticists. Moreover, we now know that what Locke said here is incorrect.
Similarly, until recently the subject of the cosmos and the building blocks of the universe was the purview of philosophers, metaphysicians in particular. Now, we turn to particle physicists for direction here.
I’ve been a fan of Sartre since my teen years. Maybe that, at last in part, explains why girls weren’t particularly attracted to me.
In any case, I’m not sure I like this quote from the 20th Century existentialist. Haven’t we all been by ourselves in a fabulous place, wishing we had a loved one with whom to share the experience?
No one with any moral sensibilities is thrilled with the prospect of another Trump administration, but let’s recognize that this could be the chance for redemption that the United States desperately needs.
This country is anxious to re-establish itself as a nation of laws, and a great deal can happen in the next four years to make this happen.
From Investopia, on the last two presidential administrations’ contributions to the national debt:
Donald Trump; $6,700,491,178,561.60 (~ $6.7 trillion)
Joe Biden; $4,738,415,474,674.48 (~ $4.7 trillion)
Outside of the $2 trillion difference, a major consideration is that Trump gave trillions of dollars in tax breaks to the wealthiest individuals and corporations, while Biden invested in our country’s infrastructure, most of which is focused on things that the common American finds valuable, e.g., healthcare, education, and the decarbonization of our energy and transportation sectors.
It’s fashionable nowadays to suggest that our schools add stuff to their curricula. Normally, these items are intended to make our young people more independent of a system that is rapidly deteriorating, and include things like growing one’s own food.
There’s no reason to object to this, except that, since our schools operate for a finite number of hours per year, for everything they add, they must remove something.
Given that a price must be paid for swapping subjects into and out of the curriculum, I think the guy here has the best possible deal: music, a discipline that is shown to make a smarter, less stressed, and more socially aware person.
Maybe if our kids were better, brighter people they’d be less likely to create a system that is deteriorating in the first place.
The United States has no official language, and its citizenship test may be taken in any of dozens of languages.
Though Trump seems to have control of the Republican party, and thus the U.S. government, there are members of the GOP, e.g., Liz Cheney, who aren’t willing to concede on matters of truth and rule of law.
Powerful stuff here.
Pastor Brandon’s argument is one we’ve seen before. Maybe liberalism is simply a collection of better ideas than conservatism, and that’s the reason we find them in places of higher education.
Here’s a short video that lays out the most salient points of Trump’s new Education Secretary’s history and political philosophy, and, therefore, what we can expect to happen to our children over the next four years. I recommend viewing it with a glass of wine; you’re going to need something to calm you down.
