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The Physics of Liberty

If one spends significant time in the trenches of liberty, one necessarily is forced to grapple with this penetrating question, “Is liberty self-perpetuating?” Does individual liberty continue without an external force? What if one or two generations ignore the principles of liberty? What happens? How long would it take for liberty to evanesce? Thomas Paine provided a hint of what the founding generation believed, “Whenever we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember virtue is not hereditary.” It’s not in one’s DNA. English statesman, moralist, and playwright, Samuel Johnson agreed with our Founders, “No people can be great who …

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On Outliers and Liars

Many of us have been told at onetime or another, that we just didn’t fit in a group. It may have been in high school. Cliques. Jocks v. the nerds. Mean girls. Others discovered belatedly they didn’t fit into a specific culture. According to a CNBC 2019, article “Inside Facebook’s ‘cult-like’ workplace, where dissent is discouraged and employees pretend to be happy all the time.” An outlier is, “a person or thing situated away or detached from the main body or system; a person or thing differing from all members of a particular group or set.” Who hasn’t been there? …

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