- Empathize with your enemy.
- Rationality will not save us.
- There’s something beyond one’s self.
- Maximize efficiency.
- Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
- Get the data.
- Belief and seeing are often both wrong.
- Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
- In order to do good, you have to engage in evil.
- Never say never.
- You can’t change human nature.
See Wikipedia: “An anacoluthon is a rhetorical device that can be loosely defined as a change of syntax within a sentence. More specifically, anacoluthons (or “anacoluthia”) are created when a sentence abruptly changes from one structure to another.
Anacoluthon is often used in stream of consciousness writing, such as that of James Joyce, because it is characteristic of informal human thought.”
- Powerful and Continuing Nationalism
- Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights
- Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
- Supremacy of the Military
- Rampant Sexism
- Controlled Mass Media
- Obsession with National Security
- Religion and Government are Intertwined
- Corporate Power is Protected
- Labor Power is Suppressed
- Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
- Obsession with Crime and Punishment
- Rampant Cronyism and Corruption
- Fraudulent Elections
Thomas Weisser (noted Japanese and Asian film critic):
- Japanese Cinema: The Essential Handbook.
- Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction Films
- Asian Cult Cinema.
- Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films
Selected Film Titles
“The survey identified three key obstacles that stand in the path of improved document management: technology, people and strategy.”
David MacDonald, “Outsourced knowledge management is one option.” Computing Canada, March 5, 1999.
TK: A perfect universal contractor observation that can be reused for virtually any technology project to sound profound and important… years later, this still makes me laugh except that some very large company got paid thousands for this pamblum…