Many people have lost heart and they do not care about the others they crushed to get to the point where they are comfortable, while others pick up the pieces and keep trying. When one is not in a situation where they feel their career and home is stable, they tend to notice the suffering … Continue reading
Who is that Transistor Salesman?
Independence training in American society begins almost at birth—babies are held and carried less than in most societies and spend more time in complete isolation—and continues, despite occasional parental ambivalence, throughout childhood and adolescence. As we leave industrial era behind, we are becoming a more diverse society. The old smokestack economy serviced a mass society. … Continue reading
Golden Development or a Contradictions-Stricken Age of Chaos?
Our society gives far more leeway to the individual to pursue one’s own ends, but since it defines what is worthy and desirable, everyone tends, independently but monotonously, to pursue the same things in the same way. The first pattern combines cooperation, conformity, and variety; the second, competition, individualism, and uniformity. The war for economic … Continue reading
We Love to Indulge Our Children
Scientific management established objectively based norms of production for every job in the armory. Workers are often times kept under surveillance, and their actual productivity is measured against the established productivity norms. The results of these methods have generally led to a dramatic increase in productivity and decrease in costs. The principles of calculability and … Continue reading
America’s Best Kept Secret—The Winchester Mansion
Four years ago, I had a party that was too much fun for me. There was a guy who said he would give me everything I need. As I recall, when I was a five-year-old in China, I had been offered up to a Satanic cult and forced to participate in unspeakable rites. During a … Continue reading
Is the Soul’s Health More Important than All the Powers of this World?
I cannot say that truth is stranger than fiction, because I have never had acquaintance with either. Whoever is without guile, let one lie down with the lion and the lamb and be not ashamed of one’s nakedness; for they shall put a ring upon one’s hand and shoes upon one’s feet; and all that … Continue reading
Ask What You Can Do for Your Country!
Man, evidently, was tired of merely having plants and animals and slaves to serve him, and robbing nature’s treasures of metal and stone, wood and yarn, of managing her water in canals and wells, of breaking her resistances with ships and roads, bridges and tunnels and dams. Now he meant not merely to plunder her … Continue reading
They Lived in the Youth of the World
The bravest fear that Americans have is that the conscience has gone down before the dollar. If we do not save this Great Republic, she will become rotten to the heart. Lust of conquest will have long ago done its work; trampling upon the helpless abroad will teach her, by a natural process, to endure … Continue reading