Tag: control

The Chinese Regime and the Black Lives Matter Movement Have Similar Agendas

Commentary Last week, Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation, the corporation behind the Black Lives Matter movement, issued a rather interesting statement. The corporation’s members stood in solidarity with the people of Cuba. The “U.S. federal government’s inhumane treatments of Cubans” was unacceptable. Not finished there, BLM appealed to the Biden administration to lift the embargo,…


Be Safe: Don’t Visit Your Dying Parent. Don’t Leave Your House. Don’t Get Married. Don’t Have Children. Don’t …

Commentary As many observers have noted, staying safe has become a religion. “Safetyism,” as it is sometimes called, like all religions, places what it values—in this case, being safe—above other values. Safetyism explains the willingness of Americans to give up their most cherished values—including liberty—in the name of safety for the last year and a…


Free Your Mind From Wanting People to Be a Certain Way

We want the world to be the way we want it. Unfortunately, reality always has different plans, and people behave in less than ideal ways.


Learning to Manage Our Fear

Pandemic fear has gripped the globe for an entire year and it continues to hold tight. Warnings of even more contagious and deadly disease variants are suspected to come in the near future, as the constant coverage of case numbers and death counts urge us to stay diligent or risk certain doom. The goal of…


Changing Our Thinking About Thoughts

Awareness Tara came to see me when she was in her mid-30s. By her own account, she had devoted the previous 10 years of her life to conquering and eliminating her obsessive and, as she called it, unstoppable thinking. She had been devoted to self-help for a decade and tried anything and everything to convince…


China Insider: Chinese Netizens Need License to Comment on Current Affairs

The Chinese Communist Party has further tightened its control over speech, information, and public opinion, by announcing restrictions on what is allowed on Chinese social media.