The Quest for Community: Conclusion
We are at a fork in the road. One road will lead to misery, the other, though hard, will offer a chance at human flourishing. Which one will we take? The Quest for Community: ConclusionIt’s been a slow process of learning and sharing Robert Nisbet’s classic work: “The Quest for Community.” It has been much […]
“Science Knows” and Richard Weaver’s “The Ethics of Rhetoric”
The last few years I’ve been reading and studying the subject of Rhetoric, for the public speaking that I do, but mainly just because it’s a fascinating subject that I’ve never dived that deep into. I became interested in it after I read “Ideas Have Consequences” by Richard Weaver, a book that truly changed my […]
Chapter 11: The Contexts of Democracy
It’s been a slow process of learning and sharing Robert Nisbet’s classic work: “The Quest for Community.” It has been much harder of a task than I would have thought going in, but it’s been worth it. I hope you have enjoyed it, and have heard good feedback from several readers who care about […]
Stable Families & Victims of Crime
Over the past weekend, Metro Atlanta saw a crime spree unlike any I can remember. There were hostages, drive by shootings, stabbings of pregnant women, gang violence at shopping malls, and perhaps worst of all a man shot in the middle of the morning while out jogging, among many others. Someone I personally know was […]
S.A.I.D. – One Crucial Key to Training & Fitness Gains
One crucial key comes to us in an easy to remember format: SAID Remember SAID because it could make a huge difference in your training. If you can’t do a push up, but then you train and later you can do one or more, you’ve experienced SAID. SAID The SAID principle is very similar to […]
The Quest for Community: The Contexts of Individuality
It’s been a slow process of learning and sharing Robert Nisbet’s classic work: “The Quest for Community.” It has been much harder of a task than I would have thought going in, but has changed my outlook forever. I hope you have enjoyed it, and have heard good feedback from several readers who care […]
Boomers by Helen Andrews, a Book Review
We talk a lot on this blog about community issues related to health. Societies need leaders, and for the last 4-5 decades the Baby boomers, born after World War II, have been our leaders. How good of a job they’ve done is covered by Helen Andrews in this remarkable book. I highly recommend it. To sum it […]
The Quest for Community: The Problem of Liberalism
Apologies for a delay in blogging. I have been taking some continuing education courses and have also been trying to finish a book I’m working on. So there hasn’t been a lot of free time to keep up blogging. I am enjoying the slow process of learning and sharing Robert Nisbet’s classic work: “The Quest […]
The Return to Earth: From Self-Actualization to Soul
“The concept of the face, I argue, belongs with those of freedom and responsibility as part of the interpersonal understanding of the world. That is to say, in seeing an array of features as a face, I do not understand it biologically, as the invisible film that encases another brain and lets in, through eyes […]
Did the Covid-19 virus really escape from a Wuhan lab?
One of the few people to follow for serious analysis of the Covid-19, which we know originated in the Wuhan province of, China, is Matt Ridley, a researcher and author in the UK. I’ve been reading his blog for several years and he’s one of the smartest writers out there. He has a book coming […]