Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
This video outlines the fantasy that the MAGA movement is based on principles. While their leadership publicly emphasizes their values and principles, their actions often contradict those pronouncements. Instead, the MAGA movement appears to routinely violate its own spoken principles, yet use persistent and powerful propaganda organs to convince its followers that its actions and…
In one of the world’s most audacious con jobs, Donald Trump convinced a sizable number of Americans that he was the way, the truth, and the life. He fused a coalition of determined authoritarians drawn from fringe Evangelical groups, White ultra-nationalists, and the ultra-wealthy hell-bent on becoming even more wealthy. Donald Trump’s success has been…
The President of the United States said the Iran War would last four to five weeks a month ago. While he will no doubt equivocate about the timeframe if the war lasts longer than five weeks, we all hope it ends as soon as possible. As Mark Twain is reported to have said, “history doesn’t…
The veracity of the 47th President of the United States is unprecedented. The Americans who voted for him obviously accept him, despite his inability to tell the truth. After over a year in office, the question arises: Will these voters accept his flood of broken promises? All politicians tell lies and break promises; however, the…
This video outlines how humans compartmentalize their beliefs and actions. Examples of compartmentalization are everywhere. Reports often reveal “honest” individuals engaged in dishonest actions. This is more than simple duplicity or hypocrisy by thoroughly dishonest people. A person could be raised never to tell a lie to his mother, but as a grown-up, he learned…
This short video introduces a series of videos about how Americans react to obvious, provable deception, lies, and gaslighting by politicians. The quotation attributed to the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan was “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.” This belief might have been false in 1973, but…
The current administration preaches the gospel of isolationism and placing America’s self-serving short-term interests above all else. It is an inward-leaning nationalism that downplays alliances and global norms in favor of short-term U.S. advantage. It favors flashy short-term bilateral deals over stable, long-term multilateral commitments. This video challenges the myth that short-term, bilateral attacks on…
We have misinformation and disinformation; the difference is that the first is simply an innocent mistake, while the second is a deliberate act to deceive, manipulate, or harm. Although not widely used, we also have mismanagement and dismanagement. We’ve all worked in organizations mismanaged by unprepared or lazy managers—dismanagement parallels disinformation. Dismanagement is the deliberate…
By popular demand, this video has been made public. There are over a dozen videos planned to focus on the 2026 elections. The primary focus will be the whys and hows of voting decision-making, not on parties or candidates. While parties and candidates will be mentioned, the intent is not to be mindlessly partisan but to put American…
With the twin themes of history and truth matters, this video explores the coming crisis posed by the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on American society. However, America has a strong tradition of resistance to collective action, which often leads to dysfunction and chaos. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, America tries everything else before doing the…