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Understanding Our Past, Our Present, Our Future

 

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it’s a matter of choice. - William Jennings Bryan

Entelechy: The full realization of form-giving cause or energeia as opposed to mere potential existence. - Aristotle

ENTELECHY
 
     
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        Title Description Date
  • Read This First
    		•  General Article Content and Purpose Winter 2004
  • Knowledge and Quality of Life
    		•  Understanding The Importance of Knowledge Spring 1999
  • Idealism and Realism
    		•  Understanding Why Human Progress is Slow Spring 1999
  • Psychology of Leadership
    		•  Why Leaders Do What They Do Summer 1999
  • What We Don't Want to Understand
    		•  The Real Basis For Respect: IQ + Motive = Results Summer 1999
  • My Job, My Life?
    		•  Our Careers/Jobs are Destructive Fall 1999
  • Aberrant Behavior
    		•  Aberrant Behavior as a Sociological Expectation Fall 1999
  • Prejudice, Power and Law
    		•  How We are Easily Fooled and Misled Fall 1999
  • Columbine Deceptions
    		•  Inappropriate Responses to Avoidable Tragedies Winter 2000
  • Death Vs Destiny Values
    		•  Resolving the Reality of Death with Destiny Values Summer 2000
  • Unethical Usury Practices
    		•  Our Federal and State Governments support Shylocks Fall 2000
  • The Price of Ignorance
    		•  Are You the Master of Your Future? Fall 2000
  • Immigration and Population
    		•  Implications of Outdated Beliefs About Immigration and Population Winter 2001
  • Business Environment Errors
    		•  Why Business Decisions are Often Less Than Optimal Spring 2001
  • Philosophy and Concept Integration
    		•  To What Extent is Destiny a Philosophy? Summer 2001
  • Politically Incorrect Questions
    		•  Freedom of Speech? Fall 2001
  • The Wall Street Casino
    		•  Pitfalls of "Investing" Fall 2001
  • My Darkest Moments
    		•  John Dumps His Bucket Winter 2002
  • Evolution of Government
    		•  Homeland Security Implications ... Spring 2002
  • And Man Created god in His Image
    		•  John is Really Annoyed With Our "Leaders" Arrogance Spring 2002
  • Can You Manage Your Mind/Body?
    		•  We'll Tell You What To Do ... Summer 2002
  • Nuclear Weapons For All?
    		•  Our Direction and Our Future Summer 2002
  • The Maryland/Virginia Killings
    		•  Trained Killers (Terrorists?) Neuter Our Police Fall 2002
  • A Fool's Paradise
    		•  Hawkish President and Chat Room Idiots Fall 2002
  • Illusions and Realities About 9/11
    		•  Where We Are and How We Got There Fall 2002
  • Somali's in Maine?
    		•  Continuing Immigration/Population Issues Fall 2002
  • John the Hawk?
    		•  Even Peaceful People Will Fight if Attacked Fall 2002
  • And Now We Have Laser Weapons
    		•  Implications of New Technology on Waging War Fall 2002
  • To a Ripe Old Age
    		•  Some Hard Realities for our Aging Population Winter 2003
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
    		•  Absurd Hype About Iraq Winter 2003
  • Where Are The Brains?
    		•  Obligation of Scientists Winter 2003
  • Bent on Making War
    		•  The Stupidity of Ignoring Allies and Consequences Winter 2003
  • Why the USA Should Attack Iraq
    		•  The Price of Unjustified Conquest Winter 2003
  • If Bush is Right
    		•  The Fallacies of the Naive Mind Winter 2003
  • Coming Stock Market Scenarios
    		•  War Uncertainty Provokes Investor Fear Winter 2003
  • Gaining Control Through Vision
    		•  The Difficulty of Making Good Decisions Winter 2003
  • War Amplifies Dissembling
    		•  The Useless Media Winter 2003
  • Happiness and Death
    		•  What You Owe to Yourself and to Other People Spring 2003
  • Least Common Denominator
    		•  What Happens When People Become Irrelevant Spring 2003
  • And the Aftermath?
    		•  Unavoidable Issues that Follow the War Spring 2003
  • Looking Back ... Looking Ahead
    		•  Ugly Aspects of Economic Evolution Summer 2003
  • I Have Seen the Enemy ...
    		•  I Looked in the Mirror ... Summer 2003
  • Pursuit of the Balanced View
    		•  What Might You Offer to Improve Our Destiny? Summer 2003
  • Ring Around the "R"
    		•  On the Value of Personal Discovery Summer 2003
  • Delusions of Grandeur
    		•  Genetic Engineering and Robotics Impact Our Future Fall 2003
  • Delirious
    		•  What if Our Intellect was Vastly Improved? Fall 2003
  • Too Bad for the Common Man
    		•  Unrestrained Capitalism is as Dangerous as Communism Fall 2003
  • Ignorance and Stupidity
    		•  Intellect Demands Noblesse Oblige Fall 2003
  • Taking Advantage of Economic Cycles
    		•  Knowing When and What to Buy or Sell Fall 2003
  • Capacity for Violence
    		•  The Coming Election Year May Bring Unwanted Violence Fall 2003
  • People Who Live In ...
    		•  Our Vulnerabilities Exceed Our Security Measures ... Fall 2003
  • Operation Underlord
    		•  From Meaningless Drivel to Something Worthwhile Fall 2003
  • The Futurist
    		•  John's Evolution Winter 2004
  • Good Concepts Gone Bad
    		•  A Look at Altruism, Capitalism and Communism Winter 2004
  • Trade Imbalance?
    		•  China, International Outsourcing and Trade Imbalances Winter 2004
  • The Undoing of America
    		•  Government and Media are Trashing Our Lives Winter 2004
  • Power Grid
    		•  A Loss of Power Analogy Winter 2004
  • Youthful Perceptions
    		•  Societal Evolution and the Ugly Wakeup Call Winter 2004
  • A Gradual Shift
    		•  Is the Republican Party in Trouble? Winter 2004
  • Simulation
    		•  A Retrospective Look at What Should Have Been Obvious Winter 2004
  • Computer Worms and Viruses
    		•  Private Enterprise or Irresponsible Providers? Spring 2004
  • More Good News
    		•  Larger Issues and Actions for Our Immediate Future Spring 2004
  • Validation and Hope
    		•  Will Intelligent and Honest Politicians Make the Difference? Spring 2004
  • Follow the Leader
    		•  The Social Contract and Individual Responsibility Spring 2004
  • Know Thine Enemies
    		•  Polarization in Human Values and Consequences Spring 2004
  • The Art of War
    		•  Chronic War Results From Poor Strategy Spring 2004
  • Purpose of Life
    		•  It is Time to Hit the Reset Button Spring 2004
  • D-Day and Reagan Reflections
    		•  War and Subsequent Government Obligations Spring 2004
  • The Great Leveler
    		•  Death gets both the Great and the Small Summer 2004
  • The Observer
    		•  Thoughts About Retirement Summer 2004
  • Just in Time
    		•  An Inventory Tale Summer 2004
  • Election Year Musings
    		•  Will We Ever Grow Up? Summer 2004
  • Mindless Slogans and Poor Thinking
    		•  Common Sense Loyalty Issues Summer 2004
  • Why Isn't Inflation a Campaign Topic?
    		•  The Hiding of a Bitter Truth Summer 2004
  • Another Look at Taxes
    		•  Making Taxes More Equal Summer 2004
  • Critical Issues 2004 and Beyond
    		•  Part I of Critical Life Issues Fall 2004
  • A Rubber Hose
    		•  A Matter of Quality ... Fall 2004
  • Critical Issues 2004 and Beyond
    		•  Part II of Critical Life Issues Fall 2004
  • Critical Issues 2004 and Beyond
    		•  Part III of Critical Life Issues Fall 2004
  • Critical Issues 2004 and Beyond
    		•  Part IV of Critical Life Issues Fall 2004
  • Because the Duck Wins
    		•  Post-Election Considerations Fall 2004
  • Less than One Week
    		•  Biodefense: Suddenly Important? Fall 2004
  • Courtroom Atrocity
    		•  Is Our Legal System Respectable? Fall 2004
  • Competition?
    		•  Is Competition Good or Bad? Fall 2004
  • Courage
    		•  What is Courage? Winter 2005
  • Looking Ahead
    		•  Planning for the Next Ten Years Winter 2005
  • A Good Forecast?
    		•  Is John Prescient or Lucky? Winter 2006
  • Demise of Books?
    		•  Changing Media and Implications Winter 2006
  • Taking Another Look at Reality
    		•  Making Sense from the Nonsensical Winter 2006
  • Blasphemy Vs Freedom of Speech?
    		•  What Politically Correct Liars Won't Admit Winter 2006
  • Where the Rights of Courts End
    		•  The Silly Holloway Civil Suit Winter 2006
  • The Quality of the Lie
    		•  What Truths Do You Think You Know? Spring 2006
  • Blame The Consumer
    		•  *#%! Flows Downhill Not Uphill ... Spring 2006
  • Love and Life: The Main Event
    		•  How Important is Your Life Partnership? Spring 2006
  • Energy Mania
    		•  Some Inconvenient Truths About Our Energy Quest Summer 2006
  • Self Inflicted Gordian Knot
    		•  What We Never Hear In The News Summer 2006
  • Only a Dog
    		•  A Brief Story of Love and Mourning Fall 2006
  • Downwardly Mobile
    		•  What a Lovely Future We Have Coming Winter 2007
  • The Virginia Tech Massacre
    		•  The Larger Picture Won't be Reported Winter 2007
  • Book Report?
    		•  An Uncomfortable Examination of Reality Spring 2007
  • When the Best are Blind Bastards
    		•  A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Speaks Summer 2007
  • Looking Into The Abyss
    		•  Reflections on Death Winter 2008
  • The End of Our Life Together
    		•  The Early Mourning Period Winter 2008
  • 10,000 Days
    		•  An Examination of Togetherness Time Winter 2008
  • Thoughts about Marie
    		•  A Barely Adequate Eulogy Winter 2008
  • Accountability
    		•  The 2008 Financial Meltdown Fall 2008
  • Food Quality and Cost Control
    		•  Living the Good Life in Bad Times Fall 2008
  • Demise of a Cancer - Part I
    		•  Economic Meltdown Cause and Effect Fall 2008
  • Demise of a Cancer - Part II
    		•  Economic Meltdown Future Events Winter 2009
  • Reality Booster Shot
    		•  Immunization From Economic Bullshit Winter 2009
  • A Different Fix to the Economy
    		•  Why not try something sensible? Winter 2009
  • The News
    		•  Media Abuse and Uselessness Spring 2009
  • Hit The Reset Button
    		•  Progress Report Card Summer 2009
  • The Elephant in the Room
    		•  A Basis for Failure Fall 2009
  • Grand Theft
    		•  Crimes of Business and Government Fall 2009
  • Lifetime Best Buddies
    		•  A Tribute to my Best Friend Morrie Fall 2009
  • Safety Patrol
    		•  We Have Devolved Our Children Winter 2010
  • Missing Essential Truths
    		•  Avoiding Complete Candid Communication Winter 2010
  • The Future of Entitlement Programs
    		•  Cost Management in a High Debt Environment Winter 2010
  • A Morally Correct Stimulus
    		•  Do You Want A "Piece of the Rock? Winter 2010
  • A Glimmer of Hope
    		•  Understanding/Solving Environmental Issues Spring 2010
  • Freedom and Responsibility
    		•  Why the Economy Melted Summer 2010
  • Unnatural Selection
    		•  Facing Reality Fall 2010
  • Lying and Dissembling
    		•  And We Expect Progress? Fall 2010
  • The No Confidence Vote
    		•  Eureka! A Political Solution! Fall 2010
  • Dissembling Addendum
    		•  A Useful Bit of Debunking Winter 2010
  • Guilt and Shame
    		•  Where Are We Going? Winter 2011
  • Step Functions
    		•  Nonlinear Change Winter 2011
  • Spin
    		•  What to Believe Winter 2011
  • We Vote With Our Money
    		•  Ordinary Citizens Can Fix The USA Winter 2011
  • A History Lesson
    		•  China Then, USA Now? Winter 2011
  • Sucker Play Extraordinaire
    		•  Too Obvious to Pretend Anymore Spring 2011
  • A Penny for My Thoughts
    		•  Let's Help the Congress Spring 2011
  • A Better Capitalism
    		•  Rebuilding the USA Spring 2011
  • Reflections
    		•  My Development/Our Future Summer 2011
  • Hard Global Reality
    		•  The Fundamental Problem is not Economics Fall 2011
  • Early Perspectives
    		•  Can We Predict the Future from the Past? Fall 2011
  • Observations
    		•  Personality and Values Evaluation Fall 2011
  • What Would Ayn Say Now?
    		•  Ardent Capitalism Revisited Fall 2011
  • Is it Really about Money?
    		•  Critical Examination of Economic Cause and Effect Spring 2012
  • Nightmare
    		•  Ultimately, There is no Hiding From Reality Summer 2012
  • Reality - The Big Picture
    		•  Facing the Legacy of Bad Philosophies/Ideologies Summer 2012
  • Sorting out the Mess
    		•  A Hard Look at our Survival Summer 2012
  • What has Ben done?
    		•  QE III and our Future Summer 2012
  • A New World
    		•  An Optimistic Plan Fall 2012
  • A Measure of Worth
    		•  Of What Value is the Pending Election? Fall 2012
  • What do You bring to the Table?
    		•  A Forgotten Ethic Winter 2013
  • The Goal
    		•  A Progress Report? Winter 2013
  • Only the Good ...
    		•  My Tribute to Joe Lange Fall 2013
  • On Turning 70
    		•  A Nice Goal Met Spring 2014
  • Asylum
    		•  A Different Look at Humanity Spring 2014
  • Musings and Reflections
    		•  A Brief Personal Review of Losses due to Death Fall 2014
  • Monkey See, Monkey Do
    		•  Police and Civilian Violence Winter 2014
  • The Harvest
    		•  John Vents His Frustrations Fall 2015
  • Introspection
    		•  How Well Do We Know Ourselves? Fall 2015
  • Eternal Nothingness
    		•  Is This Our Destiny? Winter 2016
  • Passages and Peculiarities
    		•  Back to Life Basics! Fall 2016
  • Infantile Paralysis
    		•  How We Reason, to Our Detriment Winter 2017
  • On Turning 75
    		•  I Achieved My Goal Winter 2019
  • Making Sense of Global Nonsense Part One
    		•  Recognizing/Halting Societal Stupidity Part One Spring 2019
  • Making Sense of Global Nonsense Part Two
    		•  Recognizing/Halting Societal Stupidity Part Two Spring 2019
  • Guidance - Some Life Recommendations
    		•  You Best Think Deeply About These Items Summer 2021
  • Old Age Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
    		•  Some Essential Old Age Considerations Winter 2023
     

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