What's Inside This Mental Breakdown of Writing? Here, you'll find my wandering thoughts on economics, geopolitics, culture, technology, and daily ideas. Plus, I'll be dropping little peeks behind the curtain on my novel and nonfiction projects.
"The strong man is strongest when alone." ~ Friedrich Schiller
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." ~ Ernest Hemingway
"It is the weak man who urges compromise - never the strong man." ~ Elbert Hubbard
"Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
An uncontested leader, of course, will have a strongman mentality.
And hence, that leader now stands with an opposition weakened, steadfast friends more…
"Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
"It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own." ~ Joyce Carol Oates
"Noise is the most impertinent of all forms of interruption. It is not only an interruption, but also a disruption of thought." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
"The overman...Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to…
"The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment toward us." ~ Ron Paul
"The idea of a permanent U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, as opposed to an economic presence, is going to create a new wave of hostility toward the United States." ~ Ahmed Rashid
In order to control a region, one needs first of…
The combat of WAR and an economic WAR have a lot of similarities. You do have to be skilled, aggressive, know your enemy and your strong attributes and limitations. Both skills are needed although one may be more natural. ~ Richard Marcinko
To me, the economic war with China is everything. And we have to be maniacally focused on that. If we continue to lose it, we're five years away, I think, ten years at the most, of hitting an inflection point from which we'll never be able to recover. ~ Stephen K. Bannon
Europe is war. Economic war. It is the increase of hostilities between the…
"American imperialism has always been the imperialism that has been frightened of speaking its name. Now it's beginning to do so. In a way, it's better. We know where we kneel." ~ Tariq Ali
"We are not anti-American. We do not dislike Americans though we abhor American imperialism in all its manifestations. But then, so do many Americans. Many of them have said that even more forthrightly than we have, and many of them have suffered more than any of us for their plain speaking." ~ Tommy Douglas
Trump does not understand borders as definite lines but rather as obstacles that should be…
"The war on drugs is really no war at all - it's a business!" ~ Jerry Brown
"Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system." ~ Larry Elder
"Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government." ~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Prime Minister has revealed his $1.3 billion plan for the country's borders-an aggressive attack against fentanyl trafficking and…
"Any education given by a group tends to socialize its members, but the quality and the value of the socialization depends upon the habits and aims of the group. Hence, once more, the need of a measure for the worth of any given mode of social life." ~ John Dewey
"On the other hand, the Internet is there to fill needs that people have for information and socialization. We get this sort of identification thing going on nowadays because it's a very fractious time. We live in a time of troubles." ~ Edward Snowden
You have been conditioned from an early age to suppress your primal instincts…
"See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true." ~ Milton Friedman
"The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government." ~ William Colby
"I love the people. I really like this administration [of Enrique Peña Nieto]. I think he's a good man. We get along very well. But they have problems controlling aspects of their country. There's no question about it,…
"Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity." ~ Walter Block
"Any time you read that your government is erecting tariff barriers, supporting threatened industries with subsidies, or interfering in any way with free trade between individuals or nations, you must realize that your standard of living is being lowered as a result." ~ John Pugsley
You witness the announcement of the American Trump…
Canadians and Americans are extremely close in regards to migration, immigration, history, multicultural, sociopolitically, and linguistically.
Every year, there are over 11 million Americans that travel to Canada to visit friends and family. And, every year there are over 13 million Canadians that travel to the USA to visit family and friends.
There are approximately 1 million Canadians that live in the USA. And, there are approximately 1 million Americans that live in Canada.
The apex aggression represents an intensified and heightened expression of strategic dominance where the state…
Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved. ~ Bill Russell
The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play. ~ Bill Russell
Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered. ~ Bill Russell
"Practice the philosophy of continuous improvement. Get a little bit better every single day." ~ Brian Tracy
The relationship between practice, improvement, and…
We encourage others to find a local Earth raper and make them pay for the damages they are inflicting on our communities... Furriers, meat packers, bosses, developers, rich industry leaders are all Earth rapers . We must inflict economic sabotage on all Earth rapers. ~ Craig Rosebraugh
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly. ~ Michelle…
"Centralization of society's vital services in giant computer centers, reservoirs, nuclear power plants, air- traffic control centers, 100-story skyscrapers, and government compounds increases its vulnerability. ... choosing his targets, today's saboteur could pollute a city's water supply, dynamite power transmission towers, cripple an airport control center, destroy a corporate or government computer center." ~ Anatol Rapoport
"The twentieth century had dispensed with the formal declaration of war and introduced the fifth column, sabotage, cold war, and war by proxy, but that was only the…
"True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes." ~ Daniel Kahneman
"Developing expertise or assets that are not easily copied is essential; otherwise you're just a middleman." ~ Seth Godin
"Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen." ~ Malcolm Gladwell
"The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways." ~ Robert Greene
"Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge." ~ Robert Greene
Expertise is created…
"Strategic thinking rarely occurs spontaneously" ~ Michael Porter
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." ~ Winston Churchill
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
"I've always been kind of a strategic thinking person - I love sports for instance, but my interest in sports is 'cause I love watching strategy in action or playing it. I'm not into the drama so much, of the physical action. I'm interested in the coach and how he's strategizing." ~ Robert Greene
Life is often a game of…