Tagged: priorities

On Being In Control

Life must be ordered hierachically. That is to say, every life is in fact ordered in a hierarchical way, whether one intends it or not — whether in a rational order or an irrational one. Most people’s lives, it goes without saying, are almost completely irrational in their hierarchies. But to live well requires that one’s internal ordering have the most essential activities...

Thoughts On Current Events

Democratic Surrender.– A headline in The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper of record for Americans with a milquetoast’s craving for the status quo and a middle class investor’s innate aversion to risk, announces that European leaders, by which the WSJ means the particular leaders they wish to highlight, are showing “growing acceptance” of Donald Trump’s “plan” (what plan?) for a negotiated settlement over...