Respirar Acapulco

As I've said before, it may look bleak at times, but, the bleaker the challenge, the more willingness to find opportunities. This is one of those occasions for YOU. Shout out to Stefan Molyneux and his video " The Story of Your Enslavement" . It formed a great deal of the basis for my diatribe today. In simple terms, he explains humans have been dumbed-down and conditioned into domesticated cattle. Cattle on a farm. Their only value is in their ability to be controlled. Not a pretty picture to awaken to. Side note: I'm hosting a Leadership, Ethics and Organization discussion on the Ukraine this Wednesday (the meeting is taped every Wednesday with a live audience and my guest is my new friend and fellow Autonomy graduate Taras, who was born in Moscow when it was still the USSR and has ancestry and family in the Ukraine. He will be able to provide us with keen insight into the reality of the situation. So, in preparation, I wanted to spend a little time looking into thi...

Does it seem to you we have a consensus on the number of people on the planet these days? Everyone seems to repeat the same number (7 billion) but when asked where the number came from nearly no one has an idea of how it was arrived at.  It raised my alarm bells when I looked at the growth of the population of China according to the UN. From 1950 until 1980 China's population doubled from about 500 million to 1 billion. Creating the circumstance that the Communist government then instituted the one child policy, which according to the Communist officials, slowed the rate of growth and allowed prosperity and average wages to increase rapidly.  However, between 1950 and 1980 was also when a famine occurred so severe it killed between 50 and 100 million people... not to mention a tyrannical Communist government... who imprisoned tens of millions and no doubt killed millions of dissenters. Have we ever seen an incident where, at the same time there's a shortage of food, the popula...

This may go beyond the PC arena so prepare yourself. Far too many people have slipped into the situation in which, they are the victim. In many cases unknowingly. It's fairly easy to fall into a subconscious habit if that habit is repeated ceaselessly, as it is in the media in all it's forms. I don't exclude myself... we all have received conditioning... and in this day and age... the amount of programming is staggering. Add the addiction to compromised devices, compromised processes, compromised institutions, compromised information, it's truly a tremendous inter-connected monstrosity. Even when people innocently point the finger of blame at others... they are quietly or not so quietly admitting they are a victim. This is powerful sign to be aware of. Victimhood is essentially admitting powerlessness. When the powers that should not be look out and see the human terrain of people angry and upset at each other, they probably sit back and laugh. The masses are unknowingl...

An interesting study would be to check out the Superbowl ads from 1996 until 2002. A great deal of failed ideas and concepts that had only years or months earlier collected billions will most likely be on display. For those who were in the market euphoria of the dot.com 90's, we remember the hysteria that the first iteration of the internet era, with Wall Street's and the bankers help, wrought. IPOs for anything with a .com skyrocketed weekly. Cash burn rates on most of the"tech" companies, even Amazon, seemed unsustainable... and sure enough, they were. By the end of 2000, it was clear the business models weren't nearly as refined as promised and it wasn't just a marketing problem. Plain old business principles were lacking, and low and behold, a several year crash resulted. The Nasdaq went from around 800 in 1995 to 5000 in early 2000 and then deflated back to near 1100 by late 2002. Much of the money "invested" disappeared into advertising.  Howev...

 For those of you that haven't read the Art of War. Sun Tzu warns that extended military campaigns that lasts more than a year will destroy that country's economy. 2,000 years later the fall of the Soviet Union proved it again. You can't have a country's economy based on projecting military power and neglect everything else. The Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.  Here we are 31 years later about to witness it again with the USSA. In the last 20 years, the official US government debt has expanded 6x, from less than $5 trillion in 2001 to more than $30 trillion in 2022 . With a current annual debt incurred of over 3.1 trillion! That's 3100 billion... or 1 billion for each county in the US. Imagine having to raise $1 billion from your local community. And that's the official government numbers... the truth is much worse unfortunately. Checkout this C-SPAN eye opening interview from 1989. At the time, I was stationed in West Germany courtesy of the US Army. Guarding ...

 It isn't enough to simply complain about how things are and be disappointed, disillusioned or disgusted for people who value freedom. We've got to be demonstrating it. Understanding that freedom is about giving people better choices... and the responsibility that goes with those choices. Our best bet is to be enlightening people on what is excellence and what isn't... so they CAN make better choices themselves. Estimates suggest that 4-5 million people are going to be leaving the Ukraine for better surroundings and less explosions. Something like 25 million Americans have left their crappy jobs for greener pastures. Pinnacles of freedom embodied in countries like Canada, Australia and New Zealand are now on the verge of being Technocratic nightmares.  For those able, and those who truly appreciate what freedom can be, I'm suggesting considering Acapulco as, and at the very least a place to visit and unwind from the craziness of the rest of the world. Many believe Acapu...

"Forgiving yourself is the hardest thing to do." I found that advice interesting, but I never thought it applied to me when I was younger. Let me tell you a little story from personal experience. If you don't mind... I did my share of pondering about what was right and wrong and considered myself well adjusted and informed to the right side. I thought that was "ethical". I refused large bribes, I didn't steal, I earned. I stayed honest with people... in heavy-duty architecture, engineering, and construction no less, and when it came to my record, it was spotless for the go-getter and ass-kicker I was. I was proud I made things happen... ahead of schedule, below budget, and of excellent quality. That's the project manager's triangle... and the rule is, you can only get two... I got three! All of the time. The secret was productivity... getting people to work with each other better. Much better! I did that exceptionally well on construction projects, I...