Oswald Spengler was a German historian and thinker famous for The Decline of the West, a book that set forth the cyclical theory of the rise and fall of civilizations. He used to be a German patriot and leading competitor of the Weimar Republic, the interwar liberal democracy that preceded the Nazis’ third Reich. But Spengler believed the Nazis too narrow-minded for the sort of cultural rebirth that he felt necessary, and shortly the disillusionment was returned as the Nazis banned his books.
The absurdity of the human condition knows no bounds. It is truly a Sisyphean task, and one can only hope for enough joy in it to keep on on. Thus we find any number of distractions, from religion to hedonism to family, all of which has its veneer of respectability dependent on the society.
The discovery of the New World has changed the diet of the rest of the world in many ways. Without the discovery, the rest of us who aren’t natives of South America would never enjoy the rich tastes offered by foods such as corn, potatoes, tomatoes, chili peppers, and chocolate to name only a few.
The bench press is arguably the most famed of the weight lifting exercises, with even couch potatoes knowing what it seems like in a general way. It is hip with many bodybuilders, and traditionally employed by football coaches as a yardstick by which to guess a candidate’s strength. Yet, a comeback is developing against the overemphasis, especially in the preferred culture, of the bench press. Many sports pros have abandoned it as a benchmark because there are other lifts that might better measure overall strength than the bench press, which measures only chest and shoulders strength.
There are many things we’ve been brought up to believe to be necessities that might not really be so in fact . Take the case of laundry detergents, for instance. How did all our ancient ancestors wash their cloths and linens, humble and coarse as they must’ve been, without the benefit of Tide or Downy?
Guinea pigs make wonderful pets, and they make really delightful companions for one another! My girl and I have two rabbits and three guinea pigs, and it’s interesting to see their unique personalities interact.
The “healthy lifestyle” promoted today bears no similarity to the hardy natural lives lived by most of humanity for the majority of its history. For example, it wasn’t till the daybreak of agriculture about ten thousand years ago that grains and legumes changed into a major food source. For millions of years before that, it was often meat and animal fat, with fruits and nuts being the only other nutritional options when they were even available in any way.
There is much perplexity over how to lose weight and maintain weight loss. Many perspectives and any quantity of theories have their share of obsessed recommends and adherents, but the time-honoured bigger picture is one of chaos.
It has become so fashionable to decry “big government” that if it were any other trend it would became almost pass and out of fashion. But suspicions remain high, and as the sentiment goes back to the very founding of the Republic indeed, the Revolution was waged against giant, faraway government it is going to be hard to convince otherwise perfectly reasonable americans why more government, not less, is important to achieve that generous society we all believe in.
A patent is a government-granted monopoly. Everyone is head over heels in love with the idea of patenting something. It appears quintessentially American, that if you invent something you could have sole rights to earning off it. To paraphrase President Abraham Lincoln’s own take on it, the patent system adds the fuel of self-interest to the fire of genius.