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Due to high demand on the electricity supply grid power failures during summer days are common. Wait until a million electric vehicle charging stations are added to the faltering grid.
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The Just shall live by his faith
The Jerk lives by his folly
The Just shall live by his faith goes back 2700 years ago to Habakkuk 2:4, then repeated twice by St. Paul: Romans 1:17 & Galatians 3:11.
The Just man is a “righteousness” man, (tzedekah) and “justice” (mishpat). He is attuned to the right thing and actually does it. “Tzedaka” is charity. Hence the Just man is a righteous charitable man.
Who is the Jerk? In America it is an annoying, stupid or foolish person.
A person can only be a Just or a Jerk.
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USEFUL IDIOTS ARE TRAPPED
A useful idiot is a term for a person that propagandizes for a cause without comprehending the cause’s goals, and is cynically used by the cause’s leaders.
Useful idiots don’t use their mind to exercise critical thinking.
Useful idiots are not aware that they are useful idiot.
Or else, if a useful idiot would know that they are used as a useful idiot they would break out from their useful idiot status.
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INSURGENCY: How Republicans Lost Their Party and… (war started in Europe)
One more book in the publishing business model that is inspired by Trump’s presidency.
Fact: This book was written by the New York Times journalist Jeremy W. Peters, and released on February 8, 2022. I was not surprised that this book was declared as the “NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE”.
What would you expect?
As I pointed out in previous blogs and other book reviews, the publishing industry that was created by the presidency of Donald Trump is a bonanza to the book publishing houses. Crown and Random House publishing and its subsidiaries are still publishing “Trump Books”… Never mind that the present president is drifting daily towards involvement of The U.S. in the military adventure, in Eastern Europe, that has no end in sight.
This is a 400 pages book. It is referenced with named and unnamed, reliable and unreliable sources. Based, among other – 300 interviews as source-references. Some of the unnamed sources provided the author with “a document”.
“A document” without a title and without a named source.
In clinical sciences reports, a reference like that is labeled as “private communication”, not as scientific finding. But hey, politics and journalism are not medical sciences.
Again, the boundary between journalism and gossip reporting has fine line, often plainly invisible.
Mr. Peters learned this genre of book writing from the prolific Washington Post famed journalist Bob Woodward.
The book opens with an imaginary description of an unrelated event from 2008:
Air Force One broke through the dense layer of clouds over Fairbanks on its descent into Eielson Air Force Base, a sprawling, remote outpost in the most remote state in the union.
Poetic, but hardly based on factual weather conditions during that flight. Elsewhere other presidential journalisst likes to embellish their writing with sugar frosting-like descriptive details.
This book claims to be a historical review of the Republican Party. Others will evaluate it for Republican Party related historical details. It may serve as another selective source of information for future students of the American political system as it happened in the early 2000s.
But the author can’t avoid to repeatedly getting stories linked to Trump who is, for now, the retired U.S. president.
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And the author dislikes Trump.
So his best approach is to compare Trump to Hitler.
The author brings in the famed Hitler propagandist, Helene “Leni” Reifenstahl. She directed in the 1930s the Nazi propaganda films that received worldwide attention and acclaim.
No other than the New York Times’ film critic Hal Ericson wrote:
“Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl prefers to concentrate on cheering crowds, precision marching, military bands, and Hitler’s climactic speech, all orchestrated, choreographed and illuminated on a scale that makes Griffith and DeMille look like poverty-row directors”. Better yet, she made the Time magazine front cover in 1936.
There is nothing more emotionally energizing in a journalist’s armamentarium than comparing someone to Hitler. And Jeremy W. Peters does it well. (Chapter 8 titled – “That’s Hitler!”).
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Then the book has a big problem. This book is outdated.
It was released on February 8, 2022, yet 16 days later the sitting president, Joe Biden turned himself into a wartime president. – The war against Russia. It is a war between the U.S. and Russia where the battle ground is in Ukraine.
Trump may be involved in an insurgency. Congress is still collecting sworn testimonials. That chapter in history is still being written.
Trump is an extrovert. Trump, to his credit, proved to be a shrewd negotiator with other international leaders – friends and foes alike. It was repeatedly said on him that is unhinged. He was allegedly called a moron.
Today we are in a different era and the U.S is led by a president who appears to have demonstrable cognitive lapses while in public.
NOTE: No foreign war started during Trump’s presidency.
Little note: This book is expensive. So I borrowed a copy from my friendly public library.
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PASSION, PURPOSE AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
This book is a short memoir written by a young author – Giovanni Negron-Garcia – who struggled to find purpose and meaning in life. Some people don’t look for meaning in their life until they reach middle age. As a great-grandfather I dived immediately into Chapter 6 of the book, titled: “Gifting Yourself a Legacy.”
I loved the author’s statement: “I personally believe that everyone is blessed with a gift.” As he further says: “There is nothing more valuable than the gift you possess.”
Our gift is – what we – each one of us – does best. We do best what our talents appear to be. Then again, some folks self-deny their talents and hide it from others.
Our life becomes easier and more pleasant to live if we share our gift with others. Our careers’ credibility is strengthened when we share our talents with others.
This book is a good read for intellectually inclined graduate school students who still doubt if they chose the right major or can’t decide whether they are going to wed the right sweetheart.
My take is: Man’s search for meaning never ends.
LIFE WITHOUT GOSSIP? This is a philosophical question.
It was posed by Susan Mulcahy, a journalist in charge of writing gossip columns.
It gave me something to think about.
I wasn’t sure what the right answer is.
But then the answers dawned on me one after the other.
Gossip is a living proof to the existence of society.
Gossip is part of human communication. Communication is the currency of success. Gossip reporting is the dessert of journalism.
Gossip is a part of the duties of a catholic priest. It’s called Confession. Confession purifies the Soul and paves the way to heaven. Matters of Divinity were always part of classic Western philosophy.
Gossip is a source of knowledge because it is of persistent human interest. Take for example the question: “How do you know?” And the answer is: “I heard it from a reliable source”. A reliable source is a fact. Isn’t it? When in doubt ask Google.
Gossip can be derived from querying Google. Google is the postmodern source of gossip. Hence, is there life without Google?
Oh, then the source of knowledge is a classic scholarly issue in the realm of Epistemology in Western philosophy.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum.
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