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Precept #1 – Learn to Lose

We are taught to be winners.  We are told that we can overcome anything.  Set your mind to it, and you can do it.   Losing feels tragic. The truth is that most of us are losers.  We just don’t want to acknowledge it.  Life is hard.  Life is, as they say, suffering.   Losing is the […]

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Democracy With Guard Rails

Democracy.  The system and idea that individual citizens of a nation or state has a direct influence on the rules, laws and systems that govern their way of life.  The idea that everyone may participate in casting their vote for a policy or politician.  One person, one vote.   The history of voting rights in America […]

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Standing on Shoulders

We live in a modern civilization.  Organized.  Structured.  Peaceful.  Productive.  There is very little want.  We should all be so lucky to be alive in this epoch. Civilization wasn’t built in a day.  It’s taken thousands, if not millions of years, for humanity to reach today’s precipice. We can easily take this for granted.  Feel […]

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What Makes a Great Nation

A nation is great, when its citizens are free to be their best.  A nation is great when it frees its people to think freely, move freely, speak freely, and live freely. The pillars of a great nation require restraint.   The foundations of a great nation is trust.   Trust amongst the citizenry, its leaders, communities, […]

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Self Consciousness is the Highest Form of Evolution

Self Consciousness is the Highest Form of Evolution We often think of IQ and intelligence to be the highest attribute of human beings.  I would argue that it’s the degree to which we are “self conscious”. Self Consciousness, more than anything else sets us apart from every other living animal on the planet. What is […]