Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 15, 2022 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, War | 0 |
Russia’s unprovoked and ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a lesson on many levels. The innumerable interpretations by any number of experts, the news coverage of every slant, and the public reaction…all are informative...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 10, 2022 | Class, Modern culture, Notes, Politics, Society, Values | 0 |
Over the last two weeks I’ve been road-tripping through Florida. As I was driving homeward via the central part of the state, I decided to see the infamous “Villages,” described variously as having the highest...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 15, 2021 | Contentment, Expectations, Human Nature, Notes, Politics | 0 |
Musturbation and shouldism… The more I step away from opinions about human behavior and politics, the less I need to follow news and current events. I may do so to stay informed, I may even form opinions…which I...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 7, 2020 | Expectations, Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Politics, Search | 0 |
…disappointed by our friends, disappointed by our lovers, by our families, our churches or political party, and even by our country. It’s because we expect too much. We forget that everyone else is as human as we are. It’s...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 29, 2020 | Change, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Politics, Society | 0 |
…that humans have evidenced in every society and civilization since we came down from trees: tribalism; otherism; xenophobia; social hierarchy; gender distinctions; religion; violence; mob psychology; group conformity;...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 14, 2020 | Evil, History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, Search, War | 0 |
In the course of watching Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War, I learned something I still find difficult to believe. On the eve of the 1968 elections, Lyndon Johnson was furiously pushing through peace talks to end the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 8, 2020 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, Search, Society | 0 |
That title…a saying we often use when living through what seems to be a tumultuous event. And yet, only a few souls really appreciate what that means. We think of something that “will go down in the history books,” that...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 6, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Politics, Search, Society | 0 |
I pointedly avoid political content on this site. But the political environment of any era is fodder for a student of human motivation. And in today’s increasingly inflammatory scene, considering the drivers behind...
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