The opposite of capitalism is not socialism or communism it’s community and relationship. Capitalism = transactional. If I have enough money I can get what I want, even if I’m an ar$ehole. It doesn’t matter how unpleasant I am as a human, if I have the bank balance, I get what I want. That’s how capitalism works because it is purely transactional. We.. Read more
We appear to be in an era where it’s tough to dig through the nonsense and find the truth. Part of the reason for this is that the conversation is not balanced. It’s not balanced to have a reputable educated peer-reviewed professor on one side of the debate and a high school educated conspiracy theorist on the other just because.. Read more
It’s amazing what people throw out and as the old saying goes, “one man’s garbage is another man’s gold.”
The difference between successful people and other people is the difference between getting up and waking up! Waking up is easy. We all wake up! But as the nights close in and the the cold mornings become a daily reality, getting up is not so easy. It’s all too easy to hit snooze one more time. To pull the duvet.. Read more
I’ve been re-reading a book (Shackleton’s Way) that explores Sir Ernest Shackleton’s amazing and aptly named Endurance Expedition. Perhaps the greatest heroic failure in history. The Endurance expedition never made it’s goal. It barely even got started. It fell at the very first hurdle. The ship taking the expedition team to Antarctica got stuck in an ice floe, one day’s.. Read more