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So that I better understand the issues presented, from what I gather, the popular consensus is that doing things the way we’ve always done them is more important than doing what is right. Can this be correct? We are self-chained to an ignorant, egotistical pride in believing that we cannot agree with any part of [...]
Especially in a society rife with corruption, though it could have the same result in any, it is easiest to gain the trust of others and to convince them that what you are saying is true if you first convince them that everything else may not be. Accepting that most everything is a lie is [...]
When you begin to listen to and believe the thoughts and opinions of those who could not possibly understand over the advocation of those who truly do, you have taken the first step of emboldening an opinion based solely on fear into your contrived version of reality; one that you know or knew, at one [...]
We are now weathered by the damning knowledge of years; by the shift from blind confidence to grim, pragmatic understanding. Now, we counter the disappointing and inevitable with doomed longing for all outcomes to defy the proof of experience despite our familiarity. In the past, in the blissful ignorance of youth, I always thought I [...]
The worst of humanity require the anonymity of belonging to a large group of like-minded others. In most any type of group, once our individuality can be masked, the true nature of man shouts its ignorances into the sea of muted but understood collective voice. Riots, rallies, religions, the raucous and witless “repartee”; if you [...]
Joseph D. Newcomer 