Twinkle

Your friend sits across from you in conversation. The two of you have been talking for twenty-eight minutes, and you can’t seem to make it clear to your friend that 1 + 1 = 2. Suddenly, at the end of magical minute twenty-nine, you see a twinkle in your friend’s eye. A floating light bulb has just blinked on over their head.

Yes. Yes it’s true… one plus one does equal 2.

In the twinkling of an eye your friend has just became aware of something new. In minute twenty-eight, and for the other twenty-eight years leading up to that point, your friend was not aware of this simple fact. It has affected his or her way of thinking throughout life. Now that your friend has this new information, it will affect his or her thinking in a new way. In fact, your friend’s opinion on arithmetic has just become infinitely more valuable.

But what about you? What about your opinion?

Jolt

Obama: “The federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life.”

Translation: “It is the right and responsibility of this government to plan, control, and maintain this society.”

People just eat this up without questioning it on a second level. It frustrates me to no end. The federal government should never have become so large an entity that it can “jolt” (or control) the entire economy. The implied power in this statement is what we fought a bloody revolution to escape from.

Stalin: “The central government is the only entity left with enough troops to put down these constant rebellions.”

Hitler: “The government quarter in Berlin is the only entity left with enough power to watch and control every aspect of my Aryan society.”

Serpent: “My fruit is the only food left that can really provide you with what you need.”

Is this bailout constitutional?

We are now experiencing what can be easily be regarded as an unprecedented economic crisis. We have no historical data to draw upon that would have saved us from this catastrophe.

As with all such situations, we often find that there is no precedent for a solution. It is during these times that we must be more than careful with our chosen responses.

Dangerous Idealism

In general, I don’t like people who think the world is a big dark secret on the verge of going belly-up. They’re most definitely incorrect the majority of the time, and they’re terribly difficult to communicate with.

Even worse, however, are those in the opposite camp. I have no tolerance for people who allow their neighbors’ freedoms and liberties to be taken captive because they’re too busy watering their happy-happy-sunshine garden of unattainable ideals.

In the extreme political left of the United States, I am endlessly frightened and annoyed by an entire society of happy-happy-sunshine gardeners. These superliberals play too violently with the delicate fabric of our political culture in their short-sighted attempts at obtaining utopia.

Your own loneliness factor.

Are we all just as lonely as the next person? Of course not. We all have our own particular level of loneliness. But, what really defines that level? How in the world can you change it?

I don’t offer any magic in this blog. I only want to provide you with the important opportunity to look in the mirror with a new perspective.

Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Women

What a fantastic film. This work of art is by no means the shallow, fun-loving movie that many people take it to be. Sure it has its points of light-hearted humor, but there are some very important social commentaries to be found in this 1961 classic.

The Mighty Pen

It is an unusual thought to associate any evil with the inventions of the printing press and the typewriter. These two instruments, and their offspring, have transported humanity into an entirely new era of intellectual freedom. Unfortunately, as is the case of most new developments, people inevitably lost their respect and for the intellectual freedom they now take for granted.

In my humble opinion, all sense of honor has gone out of mankind.

This blog is not an attack on the news media, nor is it a commentary on the wayward nature of so much of the literature we find in our modern culture. Rather, this is a slap on the wrist to our whole society for the fact that we no longer lend the appropriate weight to the choosing of our words – both in writing and speech.