Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
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…
This video discusses the downward spiral of people who suffer from the Dunning-Kruger effect. They tend to avoid researching and thinking about issues. Instead, they latch on to simplistic and often wrongheaded explanations and solutions. Moreover, they usually find others who have followed the same path and trust questionable authorities over mainstream authorities. In the…
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…
This video depicts a modern issue concerning smartphone addiction. It compares lab experiments with our primate cousins to human “experiments” with human children. Here is the direct address for this video: https://youtu.be/VO1uRMTZB_E
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…
Disinformation engineers and their wealthy overlords target “easy” voters in the arena we now call democracy. After democracy is supplanted by authoritarian control, their need to persuade and convince will be unnecessary. They will be like the throwaway politicians from Trump’s first term (e.g., Jeff Sessions and Michael Pence). How do these victims not see…
No one likes to pay taxes. But patriots do. Greedy, traitors don’t. In case you cannot access the video above, this is the URL: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oiFSh9otXB4
” Seven” does not refer to Trump’s seventh wife; he has had only three. The number seven refers to bankruptcies. As far as we know, he has experienced SIX, mostly at casinos. So, the man who rules the penny-conscious Republican Party is quietly creating his SEVENTH bankruptcy; this will be his crowning achievement! It should…
We live in troubled times. Therefore, we should pray with Billy Graham’s son on television every morning and believe everything the White House press office says. Life is so much simpler and uncomplicated if we follow and believe what these people say. The following is the perfect explanation of one of the recent murders in…