Chaos and Mayhem

William Shirer, witness to what was the Third Reich and author of the “Rise and Fall of the Third Reich,” once made an interesting and insightful comment about Germans as they stood by watching Hitler and his rise to power. “How did it happen that an ancient and cultured people steeped in Christianity, cultivating the arts and sciences, preeminent in technology who gave us Luther and Kant, Bach and Beethoven, Gorta and Einstein, collapsed into savage barbarism in the mid-20^th century?”

Busybodies For All!

The human mind is a fickle thing. It will become captivated by just about anything whether worthy of such attention or not, at least for a little while. The current political season is a great example of such a tendency. It has been just over a month since Kamala Harris managed to bump Joe Biden off the Democrat Party ticket, without winning a single primary vote, and become the party’s new presidential candidate. As if by magic, overnight she went from having an approval rating that was even lower than Biden’s (somewhere in the 20’s) to quickly becoming the darling of the left. From being disregarded and soundly criticized even by the leftist media, to becoming the superwoman of everyone’s dreams.

"Ignorance is Strength"

We often hear people speak about George Orwell's famous book "1984." In the book, the motto of the fictitious country (Oceania) that is at the center of the story in the book was that "War is peace," "Freedom is slavery," "Ignorance is strength." When one witnesses the current political landscape in our land, one can be forgiven for believing that the majority of people in our society have fallen prey to this motto. And this gullibility for such ideas is especially prominent among people who hold left of center political views.