To Speak or Not to Speak
What American writer Sophia Dembling says here is correct, but in many cases there are also risks to speaking up.
As long as we have this level of polarization in American politics, I’m reluctant to start (or join) a conversation that will either be tantamount to preaching to the choir, or to become the galactic waste of time that is arguing with Trump supporters and their familiarity with the content coming from Fox News.
Having said that, I had an interesting experience at a party a few months ago, where I must have been silent for a while early in the evening. A guy I had never met approached me later and said, “Until you started talking, I thought you were unintelligent.” It seems true that people read whatever they will into others’ silence.
The realization we all need to have concerning the meme at left is that human health is only one category of things that the current administration is in the process of wrecking.
One thing Trump supporters adore about their hero is his fierce independence, his lack of concern for what others may think about him.
In his latest article in Forbes, energy analyst Robert Rapier explains why “Drill, Baby, Drill” is unlikely to have a substantial impact on oil production. “There’s a total disconnect between Trump’s desire to lower gasoline prices and any incentive for producers to drill more,” he writes.
How will alien intelligences regard humankind, when and if we finally meet? It comes down to the criteria they impose.
At left are the words of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original television series “Star Trek.”
You don’t have to be a great communicator like Winston Churchill or Ronald Reagan to know that deliberately distracting your audience when you’re trying to make serious points is a bad idea. That’s what made the decision to have a little kid, capable of doing or saying anything at any time, milling around when his dad was speaking.
“White House says judges balking at Trump’s actions are provoking a ‘constitutional crisis.'”
What Aldous Huxley said here is absolutely true, and it applies so broadly across human society.
I can’t swear the story at left actually happened, but it certainly rings true–especially the end.
