Wednesday, September 16, 2020

America First

     "In a new term as president, we will again build the greatest economy in history, quickly returning to full employment, soaring incomes, and record prosperity. ... We will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before. ... At no time before have voters faced a clearer choice between the parties, two visions, two philosophies or two agendas. This election will decide whether we save the American dream or whether we allow a socialist agenda to demolish our cherished destiny ... whether we desire to defend the American way of life or whether we allow a radical movement to completely dismantle and destroy it. America is a country blessed by God and has a special purpose in this world. In the left's backward view, they do not see America as the most free, just, and exceptional nation on Earth. Instead, they see a wicked nation that must be punished for its sins."  -  President Donald Trump

Friday, September 4, 2020

The Fixation Of Belief

      "When an ostrich buries its head in the sand as danger approaches, it very likely takes the happiest course. It hides the danger, and then calmly says there is no danger; and, if it feels perfectly sure there is none, why should it raise its head to see? A man may go through life, systematically keeping out of view all that might cause a change in his opinions, and if he only succeeds — basing his method, as he does, on two fundamental psychological laws — I do not see what can be said against his doing so. It would be an egotistical impertinence to object that his procedure is irrational, for that only amounts to saying that his method of settling belief is not ours. He does not propose to himself to be rational, and, indeed, will often talk with scorn of man’s weak and illusive reason. So let him think as he pleases."  - Charles Peirce, 1877