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You Only Have Six Original Thoughts in Your Life

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 21, 2018 Posted in Musings No Comments

By an original thought, I mean putting together existing ideas and observations and coming up with a new thought or product or process that you’ve never met before. All developments are constructed from the raw materials of our present knowledge, …

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Welcome to the New World of Perpetual War

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 7, 2018 Posted in Politics, Society No Comments Tagged with War

It’s a New World of Perpetual War: US has been at war in Afghanistan for 17+ years Taliban still holds around half the country US has bombing campaigns in 8 countries US has troop presence in 177 countries (out of …

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Censorship on Conservative Sites

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 25, 2018 Posted in Politics No Comments Tagged with Censorship, David French, National Review, Reddit

I have long had the experience of being censored on conservative sites, despite making a point of being meticulously respectful. On reddit, I have been blocked from the subreddits conservative, askaconservative and The_Donald, but they are famous for being hyper-sensitive. …

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Identity

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 22, 2018 Posted in Language, Musings No Comments Tagged with Holon, Meditation

The entire canon of Western thought, from Aristotelian logic to George Boole (he of boolean arithmetic) to the divide-and-conquer approach of science, invites us to view and categorize the world according to its differences, not its similarities. A table is …

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Only Protest If It Is Invisible

By Phil Mayes Posted on October 18, 2017 Posted in Politics No Comments

Do you remember when BLM was protesting in the streets and people said “I support their right to protest, but not at the expense of inconveniencing other people?” So players avoided inconvenience by kneeling during the National Anthem, and that …

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The Financial Value of DACA

By Phil Mayes Posted on September 5, 2017 Posted in Economics, Politics, Society No Comments Tagged with DACA, Immigrants

This graph* shows the net value to society of a person as they age. Initially, a child costs money for food, health and education. During the working years, they generate more value than they consume. In retirement, living and health …

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Political Financing: A Modest Proposal

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 10, 2017 Posted in Politics No Comments Tagged with Democracy, Election

Here’s how to reduce the influence of money in elections: no politician should be allowed to accept contributions from outside their district. This applies at all levels: city, county, state and nation. The Federal Election Campaign Act bans foreign contributions, and …

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What Are They Thinking?

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 23, 2017 Posted in Politics, Science No Comments

I often check Fox News online to get the conservative slant on news. Poor as it might be, the comments are ten times worse. Here are some from their March for Science reporting. These people are a joke. The problem …

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Reconciling the Various Reasons for Trump

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 15, 2017 Posted in Economics, Society No Comments Tagged with Election, Race, Trump

After the election, I concluded that Trump won with three appeals: Bring back jobs Drain the swamp Build the wall and that I approved of the first two. (It’s now clear that all three are unlikely to happen.) Many people …

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States Rights

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 23, 2017 Posted in Law, Politics, Society No Comments

Have you seen how strongly Republicans are supporting States rights with regard to sanctuary cities? I posted elsewhere a few weeks ago that people should be consistent on their position about States rights, but I’ve moderated my position. Think of …

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