The Road to Serfdom, Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, The Law, 1984 and Animal Farm are some of the books that made a huge impression on me.
No one can agree on the problems and if they can they can't agree on the solutions. So we'll muddle along and it will go however it goes. I find refuge in being a stoic these days.
wilson, Marcus Aurelius was a great stoic. I keep meaning to read his book. Maybe this year. My Dad was a big fan of Marcus Aurelius. He named my youngest brother Mark, after Aurelius.
My Dad always believed that the best government was a benevolent dictatorship. Maybe so, but benevolent dictators are in short supply.
I have two copies of Meditations. In many ways it is difficult to live up to Stoic principles. But that's the point, I suppose. In cases of grief and loss Stoicism hasn't been that much help. Some, but not much. One problem with the benevolent dictator idea is that he would only be a man. And if he were excellent and wise and everything, who would follow as the new dictator?
Wilson, A good dictator, uses the power of persuasion. Remember the book by Dale Carnegie: "How to Win Friends and Influence People."? My Dad read that book over and over. Dad became a great leader of men in the business world and was Chief Operating Officer of Marion Labs, the most successful American company in the 1980s (using stock price appreciation as a measure.)
A good dictator needs a team. My Dad had five executives in his "Six-Pack," who made the company go. The associates (employees) were given stock as part of their pay. Everyone had skin in the game.
Governments are not businesses. In my opinion, good government is an Impossibility. The solution; as little government as possible.
PS: Dale Carnegie was born and raised in the small town of Peculiar, Missouri. The town was named after the peculiar institution (slavery.) My Dad, brother, and I would go bird hunting at Baier's Den outside of Peculiar many times.
When will people realize that our nation's problems are systemic and cannot be resolved by simply electing an "outsider" politician? More critically, will this understanding come at all?
90% of Americans don't even know the real perpetrates that are at war with them, and of those, 98.6% refuse to name this enemy out of fear.
Americans have been incrementally dumbed down, are deep in denial, and full of delusions.
The chosen bankers in the City of London who desperately want to control the whole world are at the root of all our problems. Their strategy to deceive the Goy and take over everything possible: Be avaricious, deceitful, demonic, genocidal, immoral, liars, malicious, misanthropic, nefarious, ruthless, psychopathic, and usurious.
The last few years their evil mask has come off, yet almost all of my fellow Americans are still hypnotized under their all-encompassing matrix controlled spell, oblivious in their slumber.
May you and your family have a healthful, loving, peaceful, and wondrous New Year.
Great article. I was never a fan of Instant Gratification. This irritated the hookers in Las Vegas.
Yes, the problems are systemic, and they are between people's ears. The assholes and evil ones only remain in power at our whim. The middle managers don't care if Satan or Jesus runs the government as long as they get paid.
The Road to Serfdom, Atlas Shrugged, We the Living, The Law, 1984 and Animal Farm are some of the books that made a huge impression on me.
No one can agree on the problems and if they can they can't agree on the solutions. So we'll muddle along and it will go however it goes. I find refuge in being a stoic these days.
Whatever works.
wilson, Marcus Aurelius was a great stoic. I keep meaning to read his book. Maybe this year. My Dad was a big fan of Marcus Aurelius. He named my youngest brother Mark, after Aurelius.
My Dad always believed that the best government was a benevolent dictatorship. Maybe so, but benevolent dictators are in short supply.
I have two copies of Meditations. In many ways it is difficult to live up to Stoic principles. But that's the point, I suppose. In cases of grief and loss Stoicism hasn't been that much help. Some, but not much. One problem with the benevolent dictator idea is that he would only be a man. And if he were excellent and wise and everything, who would follow as the new dictator?
And he's not immortal
Wilson, A good dictator, uses the power of persuasion. Remember the book by Dale Carnegie: "How to Win Friends and Influence People."? My Dad read that book over and over. Dad became a great leader of men in the business world and was Chief Operating Officer of Marion Labs, the most successful American company in the 1980s (using stock price appreciation as a measure.)
A good dictator needs a team. My Dad had five executives in his "Six-Pack," who made the company go. The associates (employees) were given stock as part of their pay. Everyone had skin in the game.
Governments are not businesses. In my opinion, good government is an Impossibility. The solution; as little government as possible.
PS: Dale Carnegie was born and raised in the small town of Peculiar, Missouri. The town was named after the peculiar institution (slavery.) My Dad, brother, and I would go bird hunting at Baier's Den outside of Peculiar many times.
By the way... An excellent short article... That I will publish later today... Possibly as the lead.
ME
Many Thanks, Mark!
Dear Brian Wilson
When will people realize that our nation's problems are systemic and cannot be resolved by simply electing an "outsider" politician? More critically, will this understanding come at all?
90% of Americans don't even know the real perpetrates that are at war with them, and of those, 98.6% refuse to name this enemy out of fear.
Americans have been incrementally dumbed down, are deep in denial, and full of delusions.
The chosen bankers in the City of London who desperately want to control the whole world are at the root of all our problems. Their strategy to deceive the Goy and take over everything possible: Be avaricious, deceitful, demonic, genocidal, immoral, liars, malicious, misanthropic, nefarious, ruthless, psychopathic, and usurious.
The last few years their evil mask has come off, yet almost all of my fellow Americans are still hypnotized under their all-encompassing matrix controlled spell, oblivious in their slumber.
May you and your family have a healthful, loving, peaceful, and wondrous New Year.
Love Is The Answer
Mark R. Elsis
Thanks! And HYN to you and yours, Mark!
Neither of the two major political parties began as what they have come to be.
They both began as anti-federalist parties and have become federalist statist parties that are as virtually indistinguishable as they began.
They weren't that great then either!
Neither is federalism, being the unauthoritarian version of totalitarianism.
All "government" is some form of tyranny and the antithesis of Freedom.
All governments are continuing criminal enterprises.
A distinction with no difference.
To those who are continuing victims of criminals.
Great article. I was never a fan of Instant Gratification. This irritated the hookers in Las Vegas.
Yes, the problems are systemic, and they are between people's ears. The assholes and evil ones only remain in power at our whim. The middle managers don't care if Satan or Jesus runs the government as long as they get paid.
Have a great 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKQfxi8V5FA