The Morning Plow

I heard somewhere that as one gets older they slowly solidify their musical tastes.  New artists and genres become less interesting to us and we settle into our musical palate.  I know this is not true for everyone, but for me and a big portion of adults, I think it is.  They say it usually happens in that amazingly quick time span from the end of college to your thirties.  All of a sudden, you find yourself relistening to the music of your high school and college days.  I am not sure if it is just a human need for nostalgia and sentiment or if our brains decide we don't have enough space and processing power to add anything else.  That is not to say that musical tastes don't evolve or that you can't have an eclectic range of genres.  Nor does it mean that you cannot discover something new.  But somewhere along the way, we lose the need to like the current musical trends.  Sometimes, if you are like me, you become a bit cantankerous about the...

I have spent some time discussing why liberals believe what they believe and how they attempt to push their beliefs on the rest of society.  Another distinction is the description of those who are liberal.  They are not completely homogeneous, however, but share enough characteristics to separate them from others.   Besides driving Subarus or hybrids, listening to NPR, drinking soy lattes, and eating vegan hamburgers, there are a number of similar attributes that make up a large segment of the Left.  Sociologists developed the term WASP for a particular subgroup of America that held substantial amounts of power and influence.  White (sometimes Wealthy), Anglo-Saxon, Protestant are the words that are used to make that acronym,  but their shared life experience and culture provided them distinction.  It was applied to those who typically lived in the Northeast, went to Ivy League schools or other elite colleges,  and attended mostly Episcopal...

The Pathology of the Left is supported by a number of weapons designed to infect their ideology onto the larger society.  Some methods are deceptive in their presentation, appearing on the surface to be valid, logical, and reasonable.  Others are less surgical, relying mostly on brute force.  Most, if not all, are used across all of the Left's pathological mind set.  This is by no means an exhaustive list, but ones I consider to be the most effective, which also means the most dangerous. Liberating Words from Their Meaning "...words must be freed from the oppression of reason...the stranglehold of reason upon words is like the exploitation of the masses by the capitalists."   Ayn Rand's Fountainhead This quote from  The Fountainhead  has always struck me as fascinatingly prophetic.  Language is a funny thing, especially when one thinks about it long enough.   The basic building blocks of language are words and words have meanings...

The mindset of the Left has always been of interest to me.  I suppose it is natural to try and understand someone or something that is so different from yourself.  I am sure liberals do the same with conservatives.  It is often attempted on CNN, MSNBC and the Washington Post, along with plenty of fodder for late night television hosts.  I think they are completely wrong, by the way.  Still, I am fascinated by Left's thinking and their subsequent positions on policies, concepts, events, and much more.  I often wonder, "How can they believe that?" or "Can't they see how illogical that is?"  This feeling has been even more prevalent during the pandemic and what appears to be the cultural revolution of 2020.  I engage with the news and social media and I find myself trying to comprehend the madness.  And it is madness.  There are many components to it, most of which are interconnected. Alas, I present to you the mind of the Left, but not in ...