When I buy baked goods or produce at Wegmans, the cashiers don’t even bother to look in the brown paper sack. They simply ask me, “What’s in your bag?” – and ring up whatever I declare. How can profit-maximizing businesses treat me so well?
Tag: blame
Suicide Isn’t Selfish or Cowardly
Suicide is purposeful action. Therefore, to understand why people commit suicide we must understand what felt uneasiness they have decided is too much to continue tolerating. It may be many things, but this much is true as it concerns suicide: life itself has become intolerable, and the knowledge needed to make it tolerable is not currently known.
Delegation/Relegation
A truth of government is that things are disposed of at the next level down, where the incentive is to lay blame but to preserve the process. This is called relegation.
Blaming Progress for So-Called Inequality
It’s bad enough when liberals are Luddites, but it’s far worse when they’re anti-tech because not everyone can have it. If they had their way, never mind cell phones or flat-screen TVs: they’d have torn down the first hut that anyone built, demanding that it be available to all instead of just the few.
Words Poorly Used #94 — Excuses
Why is it that when there is a cop-involved killing that 1000 experts and eyewitnesses, mostly incognito, are everywhere. Cop apologists have a kit bag full of one size fits all excuses.
What The Deep State Is
You’ll never walk into a hotel and see a sign in the lobby announcing “Welcome Deep State, Conference Room 3A.” The Deep State isn’t a conscious conspiracy, even if there are conscious conspirators within it. The Deep State is a large mass with no guiding intellect. Its inertia tends to hold it in one place and/or to carry most of its members in the same direction.
“Food Insecurity” and Who’s to Blame
Individual action, motivated by self-interest, would solve the problem. Only when the Grand Designs of Central Planners get in the way, with their “laws” and other one-size-fits-all nonsense, does individual action run into roadblocks.
Are You Disrespecting Your Child with this Type of Attention?
I think attention is a wonderful commodity and the anecdote to so many of the problems that arise with our children. The key is to understand what kind of attention is helping and what kind of attention is hurting.
Mother’s Day Poem: Ode to the Inner Woman in Every Mother
And now I take your hand – I lead you to a better land – Let’s get outta here, – I say Let’s run and play – Because as I became mother – I let go of another – I let go of Me
How We’re Harmed by Our Dissatisfaction with Ourselves
Over the last five years or so, as I’ve worked with thousands of people on changing their habits, I’ve come to a realization: dissatisfaction with ourselves is a pretty universal phenomenon.