About this Blog

The ideas I express here are much more often than not, the ideas of others. I do a considerable amount of selected non-fictional reading. As a result, I come across what I consider to be profound ideas and observations. I then pass them along to readers of this blog and encourage them/you to get the book from which the quote came. When reading a book, I have a highlighter at hand so latter, I may glance through the book and quickly review what I thought were salient points.

The school system has become a process for spinning history in what I consider to be a progressive world view. I use the term progressive in the political sense which, by my measure, is not politically healthy for freedom and/or liberty. In fact, the term as used is Orwellianesque which is to make a thing or activity attractive by calling it the opposite of what it is.

For this reason, it is vital for you to not rely on the standard reading fare offered up in public schools or in most colleges and universities. In my profile, under “Favorite Books”, I have recommended four which, if read, will greatly benefit your understanding of how we arrived at where we are and where, absent a profound understanding of that, where we are going.


Quoting from “Civilization and its Enemies”:

“In a world where others are willing to risk death to get their way, you must be willing to risk death to keep them from getting their way. Equally, if you live in a world where nations are willing to risk total war over minor issues, then you to must be willing to risk total war over minor issues – such as parading into the Rhineland. On the other hand, in a world where everyone else is accustomed to making rational economic choices, the one who is prepared to fight to the death will normally be appeased. The same logic applies to whole societies.

The result is an unsettling paradox: the more the spirit of commerce triumphs, the closer mankind comes to dispensing with war, the nearer we approach the end of history, the greater are the rewards to those who decide to return to the path of war, and the easier it will be for them to conquer. There is nothing that can be done to change this fact; it is built into the structure of the world.”