This is us …

By |2022-05-06T10:21:55-04:00May 6th, 2022|Categories: business, community, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

still trapped in Plato's cave! "The prisoners would mistake the shadows for reality." – Socrates, The Republic, Book VII (20 min) About 2,376 years before Fox News was founded (1996), Plato wrote his renowned Allegory of the Caves (380 BCE), introducing it with Socrates saying, "And now, I said, let me show in an allegory how far our nature Read more...

This is us …

By |2022-04-19T11:03:52-04:00April 14th, 2022|Categories: politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Are Will Smith, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, Derek Chauvin, Ginni Thomas, Irma Grese, Marjorie Taylor Greene, angry truckers and KKK members just high profile primates in the lab of the failing human experiment? [Photo Top row/L-R: Chris Rock/Will Smith; Vladimir Putin; George Floyd/Derek Chauvin; Bottom row/L-R: Trump; Kim Jong-un; Ginni Thomas/Clarence Thomas; KKK; Irma Grese (Senior Nazi SS Officer); Read more...

You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear …

By |2020-04-15T07:29:04-04:00April 14th, 2020|Categories: business, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , |

or resurrect the best of conservative principles by writing historical fiction ... but Conrad Black gave it the good old college, elitist, sycophantic, felon's try (6 min read) I got to page 31 but had to stop. I tried, I really did. But had to avoid hyperemesis (I'm trying to mirror Black's abundant vocabulary). Hyperemesis (noun): unrelenting vomiting. Actually, Read more...

The road to character is steep and …

By |2018-07-20T11:58:29-04:00July 12th, 2018|Categories: business, community, communitywatch, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , |

it's a dead-end for most "so-called" leaders (Hanging Coffins, Echo Valley, Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines – photo courtesy Trover) (8 minute read) Being in a position of leadership is not a qualification for being a leader; leadership positions are a dime-a-dozen, leaders are as rare as the humility and wisdom that guides their lives. David Brooks, in his excellent Read more...

The foxes will never fix the hen house of democracy …

By |2017-03-16T10:38:15-04:00March 15th, 2017|Categories: community, communitywatch, politics, social|Tags: , , , , , |

and the hens will never stop being a bunch of chickens Three things you might not know Why did the turkey cross the road? To prove he wasn't a chicken. But being a bunch of turkeys doesn't get us anywhere either, except over to the other side of the same road, which, as Plato established 2,400 years ago, is Read more...

Ten leadership books most leaders probably haven’t read, but should

By |2016-12-10T00:40:51-05:00September 30th, 2016|Categories: trumpwatch, trumpwatchhome|Tags: , , , , , , , |

A plethora of lessons, a dearth of leadership   Six things you might not know: More than 11,000 business books are published annually.[1] Surprise, the top-ten books listed below are seldom on anybody's top-10 or even the top-100 list. Will Durant, the great historian (1900-1981), selected his top-ten thinkers from leadership geniuses across history. On Durant's list, only one author Read more...

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Racism, misogyny and genius: A reading list for Donald Trump and so-called leaders

By |2016-12-10T00:40:53-05:00September 3rd, 2016|Categories: politics, social|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

(Above centre) Genius Srinivasa Ramanujan at Cambridge (1914) Five things you might not know: Einstein and Feynman had their genius-equal in Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematician, who faced racism and bigotry from the white, arrogant Cambridge intelligentsia before his young life was cut short at age 32 (1887-1920). "Americans ... [and] their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly Read more...

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