The Blind Men and the Elephant

Nov 16, 2020

An Updated Allegory on the Six Blind Men and the Elephant (Apologies to Corona) Most of us learned the parable of the Six Blind Men and the Elephant as children. Originating thousands of years ago in ancient India, the parable tells the tale of six blind men who meet...
The Art of War

The Art of War

May 25, 2020

“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our...
Elihu’s Take

Elihu’s Take

May 24, 2020

From around 2000 B.C., in what is thought to be the oldest book of the Bible, the Book of Job. The youngest of Job’s companions, Elihu speaks:  “We can choose the sounds we want to listen to; we can choose the taste we want in food, and we should choose what is...
Matrix Revisited

Matrix Revisited

May 10, 2020

Many probably remember the 1999 cyber-adventure action film “The Matrix” where Neo, a soft-spoken computer programmer, ultimately awakens and becomes a Kung Fu, computer-hacking superhero that saves the world. The underlying theme of the Matrix movies was that reality...
Learned Helplessness: Another untoward effect of the Pandemic

Learned Helplessness: Another untoward effect of the Pandemic

Apr 27, 2020

Another untoward effect of the pandemic is to create what psychologists call “Learned Helplessness”.  We were first instructed to practice shelter-in -place, socially distance, tune in and receive our  daily updates and mandates, and wait and see if we...