Daily writing promptYou're writing your autobiography. What's your opening sentence?View all responses Short answer: I lived. The Romans said it best: vixerunt. This single word expresses everything that counts in the world. It brings meaning to all our lives, now and then, and perhaps for as long as there'll be people. If you live your … Continue reading Vixerunt 2.0
I was thinking the other day about what goes on in the world today. You know and I know that Ukraine War has cost us all a mint of money and it looks as though it was all for naught. At least from our perspective as Western tax payers. Because the corporations are going in … Continue reading On Support
Wondering is healthy. Wandering not so much. Better hit the gym or get physical. The answer is always out there. We were meant to think. Not overthink. Action beats inaction.
Change doesn’t happen in a vacuum. No one changes their ways just for the heck of it. But if one must change, they’d better do it for the right reasons. Being neutral is a safer bet than adhering to any military alliance. Nobody owes anyone anything. Protection doesn’t come gratis. And sometimes the price is your own existence.
Tariff Wars are not all Bad. Smart countries protect their economies and maximize resource leverage on the world markets. Dumb countries keep digging their burial holes. Intelligent countries make sure nobody looks at them the wrong way so that they can keep their earnings.
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.
People who exist purely in the now without a thought to their cultural impact, their historical footprint, and who go out of their way to destroy our legacy should be punished commensurate to their crimes.
Perhaps it is poetic for Humanity to seek her Cosmic Transubstantiation among the Stars where decay is a distant menace, unlike here on Earth where it's an ever-present reality.
1 in 5 American servicemen is obese. No wonder you can't have a conventional firefight anymore and you have to use ICBMs to fight a war. In Romanian we have a saying “Unde dai si unde crapa!” In short, the law of unintended consequences strikes again.
The Future belongs to the unfittest. Man up or this race to the bottom will end us. Enough said.
Götterdämmerung 