• “PEOPLE GO TO GREAT LENGTHS TO AVOID UNPLEASANT INFORMATION THAT MAKES THEM FEEL BAD.”  A new 5000-person Harvard study found that even more prevalent than inattention or laziness being the rationale for ‘tuning out’ information, people chose to “avoid negative info that impacted decisions benefiting themselves at the expense of others – the ‘selfish option’ excuse – so they could plead ignorance and accountability for their own decisions.”  Combined with ‘Confirmation Bias’ which automatically dismisses input, especially ambiguous evidence which doesn’t support existing attitudes, beliefs or positions based on education & experience, it does help explain the motives & intensity of today’s incapacity for debate or compromise on so many societal issues. [HBS WORKING KNOWLEDGE – 9/15/21]
  • WHILE ALCOHOL CONSUMPION BY COLLEGE-AGE KIDS “DROPPED SIGNIFICANTLY” LAST YEAR, use of marijuana and hallucinogens increased to “historically high levels.” According to National Institutes of Health (NIH) division on Drug Abuse, “the pandemic dramatically changed the way that young people interact with one another.” Surprise.  [LBN EXAMINER – 9/19/21]
  • UNDERPINNING TODAY’S CHAOS ARE: “(1) Ideological subversion of Gen Y and Gen Z, who’ve been educated thru schooling and media through the lens of imperialism and aggression. Instead of social studies, kids & adolescents have been taught studies in social justice, with America repeatedly shown as the bad guy… who are now completely immune to anything deviating from their perception of ‘reality’ – what they’ve been taught is the ‘real Truth’; (2) Indoctrination to dependency on Government Handouts, even for corporations, without realizing this addiction, while rationalizing Entitlement to Handouts; and (3) Politicians just as addicted, but to Power , maintained by borrowing and printing money and ignoring debt levels, in order to keep the vicious, self-perpetuating cycle flowing…  History shows that the majority of people will always vote for the candidate promising the most goodies from public treasury, and that each & every time a Democracy goes down this road, it collapses from loose fiscal policy, generating fear, violence & uncertainty to fill the void, with people so terrified they will agree to trade anything, even liberty, in exchange for return from chaos to order. What always evolves is a dictatorship which does restore order but never again freedom.”  [author BRAD THOR in 2011]
  • “HOW PARADOXICAL that the U.S. has sent teams of constitutional specialists to Iraq and Afghanistan to help tribal societies draft legal, ordered & sustainable Western consensual government charters that are not subject to the whims of particular tribes and parties. Yet America itself is descending in the exact opposite direction… Suddenly in 2021 America, if ancient consensual rules, customs, and constitutional mandates do not facilitate and advance the progressive project, then by all means they must end—by a mere one vote in the Senate… Junk the 233-year-old Electoral College and Constitutional directive to the states to assume primary responsibilities in establishing voting procedures in national elections. End the 180-year-old Senate filibuster. Do away with the now bothersome 150-year nine-justice Supreme Court. And scrap the 60-year-old tradition of a 50-state union… How sad in our blinkered arrogance that we go across the globe to the tribal Third World to teach the impoverished a supposedly preferrable culture and politics, while at home we are doing our best to become a Third-World country of incompetency, constitutional erosion, a fractious and politicized military elite, and racially and ethnically obsessed warring tribes.”  [VICTOR DAVIS HANSON – 9/19/21]
  • THOUGHTS FOR THE WEEK:

               So far, with support of media and judges, the radical activist takeover has been completely effective: infecting government agencies, justice system; borders, schools & colleges, police, military, the U.S. economy and especially our voting system – rigged around a foundation of uncontrolled and home-printed mail-in ballots, no voter ID or signature verification (beyond Driver Licenses also issued to non-citizens), ‘harvested’ ballot deliveries, and counting for weeks post-election. Does anyone believe we’re not past the point of no return?