Rights, Entitlements . . . and boundaries? And how our conflation of these terms are creating a toxic environment. Rights and Entitlements, strangely enough we are going to tie this into our interpersonal lives with boundaries and how most of the things I read about “boundaries” are really entitlements masquerading as rights. What [...]
Words matter. The meaning of our words matter. And understanding their meaning is critical to understanding our world and acting within it. In this episode we discuss justice and how it contrasts with what has come to be referred to as "Social Justice". We define the meaning of Justice, Mercy, Grace, and Judgement [...]
The nuclear family is under attack maybe more than every before in history—Today we discuss why some are working to erode family values, and why we must defend it . . . In this episode we talk about: How to escape poverty Role and strength of the Nuclear Family Why Black Lives Matter [...]
During the Chinese Cultural Revolution Totalitarian control was carried forth by undermining traditional morality, the family unit and public displays of violence through struggle session to strike terror into the hearts of the people because if you could strike terror in the hearts of men and women—you could control society. If you remember [...]
French Revolution began 150 years of chaos, war, bloodshed, revolution…. Each movement being eaten by the next… France in the 1789 had LOTS of problems: high tax on poor, Rich, oppression etc. CLEARLY in need of Revolution. America had just gone through their own revolution. But the ideal of these two revolutions were [...]
There are six traits of totalitarian cults: 1) Control of the environment 2) A system of rewards and punishments 3) Creating a sense of powerlessness 4) Fear and dependency 5) Reforming the follower’s behavior and attitudes 6) Closed system of logic. These were described by Margaret Singer’s Cults in Our Midst (1996). In [...]
In this episode, I break down some of my thoughts from a previous episode with Dr Egnor (E153). If you see a group movement or state that denies the individual's though, variety of opinion, agency and replaces it with group identity, social constructionism, and uses fear based terror based tactics such as cancel [...]
