Mystic Chords of Memory: Learning From the American Story

The Mystic Chords of Memory: Learning From the American Story by Christopher Flannery,  Host, The American Story                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The following is adapted from an online lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on November 6, 2020.   Every generation of Americans, from the beginning, has had to answer for itself the question: how should we live?…

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DESCRIPTION OF THE EMOTIONAL TONE SCALE

‘ DESCRIPTION OF THE EMOTIONAL TONE SCALE The basic nature of Man is not bad. It is good. But between him and that goodness are fears, rages and repressions.                                                                — L. Ron Hubbard,  “The Free Man” Introduction  The world can seem a dangerous place to…

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Why Civilizations Vanish

“Civilizations have not vanished because they had wrong ideologies or ran out of resources. First and foremost they vanished because they had no technology of the mind and could not handle people because they did not know the basic fundamentals and life. And right along following that, they did not know the tech of administration…

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Cynicism: Taking the Heart Out of a Nation

An optimist celebrating life. Cynicism: Taking the Heart Out of a Nation   What is a cynic really, you ask… ‘Cynic’ comes from the Greek Kynikos – like a dog.  And from Diogenes of Sinope, the most famous Cynic philosopher, known for ‘barking’ his beliefs, among other dog-like behaviors.  The original cynics rejected social conventions…

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