Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
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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…
OpenAI, the company that owns ChatGPT, has all the hallmarks of a classic Silicon Valley flameout. Silicon Valley history is littered with the corpses of well-funded, but underproducing startups. I have been testing and using several AI services over the last three years, and I was very impressed with ChatGPT in the beginning. However, recently…
This short video is the sixth in 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…