Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
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This video is part of a multi-part series that examines the difference between people who think with their gut rather than their brains. Over the last eleven years, it has become painfully obvious that a large number of Americans prefer the MAGA message over the path of progressive morality and the modern social sciences. The…
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 most recent polls show that around 40% of adult Americans approve of the Trump administration’s performance. Broken down by party, 4% of Democrats approve, while a surprising 85% of Republicans continue to stand by their man in March 2026. This demonstrates fairly conclusively that the politics of division started about 20 years ago have…
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 focuses on the great similarities between the two brothers, but politics divides and conquers their families. Interestingly, these two brothers think and behave similarly. They have similar values and responses to political and economic events. However, since the choices in American politics are largely binary, it is easy for two very similar brothers…
The mind games we all play that distort reality are almost limitless. While many of the most prominent mind games have been discussed in previous videos, this one contains a short list of the minor games. These deceptive games that we play on others and ourselves are not mutually exclusive. Most reinforce one or several…
This video explores how easy it is for people to act in roles and follow scripts. This is an easy way for a person’s perception of the world to be shaped. An actor in a drama can play a villain in a movie but be the nicest person in real life. The opposite can also…
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…