It has been said (by some undoubtedly conceited soul) that “small minds talk about people, medium minds talk about events, and big minds talk about ideas.” There are more than enough blogs commenting on current events. In this blog, I’m after something a bit deeper. This is an effort to get at the stuff underneath; not the who, what, and where, but the why? This is the place for those ideas, or, more precisely, those transcendent principles that structure our existence—whether we notice, acknowledge, and live by them or not.
Steven Covey gave us Seven Habits of Highly Effective People—a proposition that there is such a thing as right living, and that right living pays off with happiness, satisfaction, joy, fulfillment, and ultimately, success. But success on a personal level isn’t the end of the positive effects of principled living. There are also principles of effective cultures, nations, and governments. There are such things as real success and failure on national and even global scales, and they are brought about by adherence to, or defiance of, transcendent principles and beliefs. As has been said, “You cannot break the Law. You can only break yourself upon the Law.” What we believe as a nation does matter, for nearly all of the people on this planet live and die, in freedom or in bondage, at the whim of the politically strong.
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