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Category Archives: Perils Of Specialization
Currency War: The Perils Of Specialization In Finance & Macroeconomics
The editorial board of the Wall St. Journal has revealed great insight into why many political economies throughout the world are experiencing problems with price stability, native currencies and inflation. The answer is easy to see: the U.S. Federal Reserve … Continue reading
Microsoft The Idolization Of Ephemeral Institution & Nemesis Of Creativity
Throughout his 12 volume study of the rise and decline of civilizations, Arnold Toynbee spent considerable time revealing examples whereby either governments, tribal chiefs, Church’s, political leaders or companies become intractable monolithic institutions both unable and unwilling to anticipate the … Continue reading
Posted in Arnold Toynbee, Perils Of Specialization, Uncategorized
Tagged Creativity, Idolization Ephemeral Technique, Microsoft, Toynbee, Windows
Escape From Freedom
Their remain very few writers whom understood the perils of Totalitarian life and its psychological consequences better than Orwell, Tocqueville, Huxley, Pope John aPaul II, Raymond Aron, Churchill or Frankl. All have written extensively on pursuing lines of thought critical … Continue reading
Cyril Northcote Parkinson: A Guru For Financial Goverance
Very few writers ever acclaim the status of Cyril Northcote Parkinson. Born in 1909 and died in 1993, he befriended most of the great literary and military persons of the British Empire, wrote both Naval and Political treaties that remain … Continue reading
Gilded Age: Prominence & Patricide
Anyone familiar with the Hudson River Valley in New York State is familiar with the rise of tourism that accompanied the twenty-five year economic boom that we sustained since Reagan. All along the Hudson River are mansions from the Gilded … Continue reading
Posted in Conservatism, Ethics, Identity Development, John Paul II, Money, Morality, Perils Of Specialization, Sociology, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Waugh, Averell Harriman, Deborah Davis, Geoffrey O'Brien, Gilded Age, Newport Rhode Island, Saratoga Springs, Tycoon, Vanderbuilt, Vienna, Wittgenstein
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Ralph Peters: Spygame
Known as an old ‘Russian Hand’; a euphemism detailing the acumen accrued by developing successful ‘cover’ as a mole behind the line of fire, Ralph Peters remains one of the finest intelligence experts the Army has produced in decades. He … Continue reading
Posted in Benny Avni, Perils Of Specialization, Terrorism
Tagged CIA, Ralph Peters, Spy, Terrorism
The Perils Of Specialization: Statecraft, Technology, Education & Personal Growth
If any writer, thinker prepared American readers to understand the perils of specialization it was Dr. Peter Drucker, a contemporary of the late great Nobel winner in economics Fredrick Hayek. Hayek knew Drucker from his days at the Austrian School … Continue reading
A True Catholic Humanist: Gilbert Murray & The Imploding West
Gilbert Murray is not often thought of being Roman Catholic, I remain unsure of his personal affections regarding the sources of contemporary Catholicism; he remained throughout his life a very deep public man of Britain, throughly engaged in the issues … Continue reading
Posted in Alex Tocqueville, Arnold Toynbee, Conservatism, Education, Eric Voegelin, Ethics, Hans Urs von Balthasar, International Relations, Islam, John Paul II, Middle East Peace, Morality, Near East, Perils Of Specialization, Politics, Raymond Aron, Satan/Evil, Theology, Uncategorized
Tagged Calvinism, Catholic Church Independence, Determinism, Edmund Burke, Enlightenment, Gilbert Murray, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri De Lubac, Kissenger, Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Protestant Reformation, Raymond Aron, Satanism, Victorian Ethos
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Civilizational Growth Or Decline: Technique, Expansion, Finding The Criteria For Intelligibility Of Civilizations
It remains out of vogue in our age of political correctness to speak of either growth or decline of civilizations. But I do believe that their are criteria to discover a field of intelligibility from which to study and determine … Continue reading
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Tagged Ancient Empires, Assyria, Classical Greece, Demise Growth Civilization, Expansion, Geographic, Herodotus, Peloponnesian War, Shakespeare Tragedies, Technique, Thucydides, Toynbee
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