Exposing the Mechanisms Used to Manipulate Your Thoughts, Actions and Beliefs.

" Our secret weapon is nationalism. To have nationhood, which is a sign of maturity, is greater than any weapon in the world. "        Ho Chi Minh While I am not in the habit of quoting those who led wars against US soldiers, I find it interesting that the left condemns Donald Trump for saying he is a nationalist, while they never condemn someone like Ho for praising nationalism.  Maybe Trump intentionally used the term to trigger the left to lash out at nationalism, and expose their underlying contempt for American patriotism and belief in sovereignty. Nationalism is not racism, in fact far from it.  The nationalism that grew out of Europe, particularly in the 19th Century, was an attempt by governments to unify their peoples DESPITE regional, religious and ethnic differences within the national boundaries they controlled.  The nation-state in the more modern sense attempts to draw people's allegiance to symbols, ideals, and c...

Updated, Sept. 2022 “ Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock .”   Sigmund Freud Face it; all of us have fanaticized about doing something really evil to a person who has committed an injustice against us.   That is natural. However, in most cases it remains a thought only played out on a stage within our minds. It does not translate to action. And that is what allows us to survive as a civilization, the repression of our instinct to lash out in defense of ourselves or something we believe in. Yet it appears with all the incidents of left-wing zealots attacking conservative men, women and children, sometimes employing lethal means, that some people have transcended thought to deed. So what is responsible for this? Maybe the very institutions that are entrusted to safeguard our societal order in the first place – let’s call them the dam keepers. The traditional dam keepers in society are the family where we learn what i...