Quote from: The Black Swan
“…it is extremely convenient for us to assume that we live in Mediocristan.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Category: Reflection
My reflections on various topics
Continual Confrontation
…engaging the demonic.
Jung
If “feelings,” “emotions,” and “intuition” guide your life and life’s decisions, then you are a Jungian–a gnosti...
Honesty
Honesty is much more than not lying. Honesty is about proclaiming the truth, living in truth, and dying in truth. Honesty is about people’s lives and thei...
“Deluding Yourself”
“You greatly delude yourself and err, if you think that one thing is demanded from the layman and another from the monk; since the difference between them is in...
Leadership Lessons
If you cannot adhere to tradition/Holy Tradition and truth/The Truth, what are you teaching your children? If you can lie before God, why can’t your child...
Failure
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb…people who fail do not seem to write memoirs…
Sin
How Dante Can Save Your Life by Rod Dreher Sin is not the breaking of moral rules, but a failure of love. We love the wrong things, or we love the right th...
The Axiom
The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene, Joost Elffers …thus confirming the axiom that education is easier than reeducation.” (Location 933)
Honor & Dignity
It’s a motivating power – to adhere to tradition and Tradition; to stay with the mission; to not sway with the times; to not yield to fear, threat, ...