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The Question Our Society Needs to Ask Ten Times More: Does It Work?

6 days ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

When I first went to college, I didn’t know a lot about politics and didn’t have particularly well-formed political views. In other words, I was an Independent in the true sense of the word. Still, I wanted to learn more about politics and I had lots of liberal professors who were trying to push their views on all of us. I listened to what they had to say and found it… impractical. I literally had a professor who advocated GETTING RID OF OUR MILITARY.
Tearing Down a Rigged System: It's So Good to See the Liberal Version of "Normal" Starting to Die

1 week ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

Imagine if you were playing baseball and it was "Three strikes and you're out!" for your team, while the other side got 10 misses before they struck out. What about if you were playing football and your team got to start every drive on your own twenty-yard line while the other side ALSO began every drive on your twenty-yard line? What about if you played a game of Monopoly and every time you passed "Go," you got $200 while the other side got $500? None of it sounds very fair, right?
“The End of the World is Just the Beginning”

1 week ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization by geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read in quite a while. It starts out by noting a couple of things most readers of Culturcidal would just acknowledge out of hand. The United States and much of the rest of the civilized world are piling on an unsustainable level of debt.
30 Quotes from the Giants of Psychology

1 week ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

The more psychology in the modern era becomes infected with politics, the less effective it becomes and the more its reputation suffers. That doesn't mean there isn't any value to be found in it. It means that a 35-year-old liberal white woman projecting her own mental illness on her clients probably isn't going to be the one to deliver a lot of that value.
What is “Enough” in Your Life?

2 weeks ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

If you had enough money to sit on a beach and drink margaritas for the rest of your life, would it be “enough?” That depends on what your goals are, doesn’t it? In fact, I still remember a conversation I had with an extremely smart, talented, but also highly materialistic person. He asked me what I considered “enough” money. For me, it was enough money to be “free.” That meant I could go where I wanted, with who I wanted, when I wanted.
It’s “Tough Love” Time for Illegals

2 weeks ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

Have you ever seen that old reality show, Intervention? It was admittedly fascinating because it would almost inevitably show some young man or woman who had gotten so swallowed up by their addiction that they turned into a monster.
The 40 Best Quotes About What It Takes to Succeed in Life

2 weeks ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

One of the things I've always believed is that whatever "success" in life entails for you, someone else has already done it, and it makes sense to learn from them. Something else we can say about success with certainty is that most people in life are not successful. That's not by my standards; it's by their own. One last thing we can say about success is that if there are successful people, but most people aren't successful, then successful people must be doing things differently from the masses.
20 Ways People Get Manipulated by the Media

3 weeks ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

The quality of the information we get in America is the worst it has been in my lifetime. It’s so bad, we’re practically in a “post-fact” era. How is that possible? Because there certainly are FACTS, but when every “fact” is disputed, distorted, sensationalized, and treated like it’s part of some sort of great, ideological struggle between the Left and Right, you never know exactly who to believe.
Trans-Unreality

3 weeks ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

When I was young, I played Dungeons and Dragons. I knew the books like the back of my hand, had a good time, and enjoyed playing with friends. Of course, there was more to it than that. It taught me a lot about mythology and fairytale creatures, which was of dubious value, but all those dice also helped me gain an almost instinctive understanding of statistics, which turned out to be much more useful.
25 Future Predictions for the Next 50 Years

4 weeks ago | culturcidal.com | John Hawkins

I’ll be the first to tell you that I am not Nostradamus. In fact, Nostradamus wasn’t Nostradamus. All he really ever did was make extremely vague sounding “predictions” and let people fill in the blanks generations later to give him credit for things that he never really predicted in the first place. What I’d like to do is what all of us try to do, at least to a degree; look at the way the world is moving, project it out into the future, and come to some conclusions most people don’t see coming.