The two principal problems in the US today are Democrats and Republicans. The Democrats tend to be inept. The Republicans tend to be evil. Neither considers the needs of the nation as a whole but instead concentrate on the narrow vested interests of its affiliated group. As a result, the country is not only polarized, but also paralyzed. It is easy to blame President Trump for our problems, but Trump’s presidency is a result of—not the cause of—our problems. Our problems won’t disappear if we remove Trump from office; they would simply coalesce around whomever replaced Trump as president. The . . . → Read More: Two Serious Problems
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 Comments are closed  Blog  a house divided, Abraham Lincoln, Animal Farm, cancer, Democrats, evolution, French film, French revolution, George Orwell, good and evil, land owner, Middle Ages, peasants, pigs, political parties, Republicans, rich and poor, Ridicule, royalty, society, States, Stevie Wonder, wealth Although all presidential elections in the US are “historic,” our most recent election will probably go down in history as the most historic of all. As most of you already know, the election featured the first woman candidate to be nominated by a major political party, and the first major oligarch who pretended to be the candidate of the people. It also featured more—a lot more—of the usual yelling and screaming—and sometimes punching and shoving—than most US presidential contests. One of the influencing factors was, of course, accomplishments of President Obama, many resented him because he was the first . . . → Read More: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Coronation Comments are closed Blog 1984, Aliens, Blacks, buggy whips, cancer, Christ, Clinton, coal, coastal states, Divergent, dystopian, election, fear, female, flyover states, gas, global climate change, global warming, hate, Hispanics, history, Hitler, holocaust, Hunger Games, Indians, Interesting Times, manufacturing, Maze Runner, Mexicans, Mideast, Native Americans, oil, Old Testament, oligarch, presidential, race-based hate, Rapture, Second Coming, slavery, surgery, technologies, Trump, war, woman, WWI, WWII I owe the title of this blog entry to William Shakespeare, who put those words in the mouth of King Richard III. Richard’s words were a metaphor for difficult times under the previous king rather than commentary on a polar vortex of the sort we’ve been experiencing in much of the U.S. this winter. For many in the States, this has been the coldest winter with the most ice and snow that we’ve had for several years. Meanwhile, Melbourne, Australia, has been so hot that those playing tennis in the Australian Open have been wilting in the heat, . . . → Read More: The Winter of Our Discontent Comments are closed Blog agriculture, alternative, argue, auditory acuity, bees, Byron Katie, CAM, cancer, change, cold, complementary, crime, discontent, environment, find, genetically modified, global climate, GMO, Hamlet, hearing, Hell, herbicides, I-94, ice, ICIM, integrative, International College of Integrative Medicine, Jackson, Jenny Rymer, Lakeshore Acupuncture, Leah Ke, medicine, MI, Milton, ND, Paradise Lost, persist, pesticides, Polonius, poverty, reality, resist, Richard III, risk, Satan, seek, seeking and finding, Shakespeare, snow, St. Joseph, war on In NLP, one of the central Metamodel questions is, “How do you know?” An honest answer to the question provides information about a person’s “model of the world,” which is essentially a “reality strategy”—the way people decide what’s real. In most cases, what we think of as “real” is more accurately a “belief,” in some cases with very little in the way of supporting evidence. Most beliefs begin, of course, with some evidence in the external environment. Through the natural processes of deletion, distortion, and generalization, beliefs that have a logical beginning can become increasingly distorted over time. One of . . . → Read More: Evidence Procedures Comments are closed Blog Africa, Amish, behavior, belief, belief systems, beliefs, Bible, breasts, cancer, cancerous, change, Christian, climate change, Copernicus, disasters, drought, economic policy, economics, Europe, evidence, evidence procedure, evolution, false positives, flood, floods, follow the money, food, fossil fuels, fuel, Galileo, geophysical, global warming, government, Greece, health care, history, hockey stick, human activity, human influence, interconnection, long-term, mammography, metamodel, Mideast, perspective, prosperity, PSA, PSA test, public education, public schools, real, reality, regulation, relief, Richard Bandler, risk, scarcity, science, scientists, short-term, Spain, strategy, survival, tax policy, technology, the world, thermography, time, U.S., X-ray Previously—”I Read the News Today (Oh, Boy),” 4 June 4 2011—I lamented the need for greater understanding and appreciation of the essential premises of Alfred Krozybski’s Science and Sanity, which evolved into the metamodel of NLP. Those premises are basically a cry to pay closer attention to reality, known in both Korzybski’s work and NLP as “territory,” which is distinct from “maps,” which are human beliefs. The problem is that beliefs too often argue with—disagree with—reality, and, as Byron Katie (Loving What Is) has said, “When you argue with reality, you lose. But only every time.” If you want . . . → Read More: Arguing with Reality Comments are closed Blog ABC News, advertising, belief systems, beliefs, Byron Katie, cancer, Cigarettes, circular reasoning, COPD, Copernicus, DEA, drug, eggs, emphysema, evidence, fraud, Galileo, heart disease, Jesus, job creation, jobs, Judge Your Neighbor, Kent, Korzybski, loop, maps, marijuana, medical, medieval, middle earth, money, PAD, pharmaceuticals, safety, science, tax rates, taxes, territory, tobacco, TV, waste, water |
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