This is all about American Exceptionalism. Everything is Possible in our America. All these are backed by a hard-assed lesson about what makes for Happiness. YOURS!
WHY DID I WRITE THESE THOUGHTS?
Because Dreams Don’t Come True. Dreams are Made True.
Because this is AN AMERICAN STORY! a great one seen in a video you will soon see.
Because it’s a journey. Accordingly, if you have courage, this is for you. If not, don’t even start to read!
Because “One of the greatest values of mentors is the ability to see ahead what others cannot see and to help them navigate a course to their destination.” — John C. Maxwell
Because “Truth is the recognition of reality; reason is man’s only means of knowledge, and his only standard of truth.” – Ayn Rand
And the only way to get to the truth and navigate a course to your destination – which is, or should be to happiness which is your main responsibility. (It is so because if you have a happy life you will make others happy). What could be more egalitarian than that idea? First, discard your miserable socialist loser professor’s biases, ignorance, fears, and their mentality – as well as the leftwing media’s narratives against success and happiness. Even their fury against the woman you see pictured.
Instead apply:
Illustration credit: the Author and Alphabet
THE NOT SO CIRCUITOUS ROUTE TO HAPPINESS
“PHD,” Doctor of Philosophy, neither refers to the discipline of medicine, nor having anything to do with the field of inquiry the Greeks gave the science of philosophy: The Love of Wisdom. Rather, the vernacular of Piled Higher and Deeper fits better. You see, the Love of Wisdom has been nailed into the coffin of modern “edukashun,” by your teacher’s unions and people who are likely to be attracted to the education “profession.” Once an honorable profession churning out mentors, today’s unionized priests of progressivism are losers. Nobodies. People who cannot compete in other fields that actually benefit mankind, because in too many cases their worldview has buried knowledge under with WOKE, DEI, CRT. A tsunami of astonishing fairy tales, absurd history, and the unreason advocated for by your media and your universities’ administrators. THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE.
The “edukashun” the nation was force-fed during the last half century by an academia and media taken over by malign foreign powers, meant ideological indoctrination attached to, and colored by, everything, science, music, art, even math – you name it. It constituted a takeover of America that can destroy the nation.
Let me be blunt: If you think math is racist, or because of their imagined “privileges” American white males are racists, you don’t have a learning problem. You’ve been poisoned.
If so, you are also likely to think that a great Palestinian civilization, culture, language and religion existed before the Hebraic one. Chances are 100% you are not productive and have very little to show for your life’s efforts other than you don’t use suppositories as often as you should.
This short story can benefit people who wish to succeed and be happy. It is about reason, communication, understanding of self, productivity, success and failure, and happiness. By no means should anyone attempting to attain a happy life think it is an easy undertaking. It is not.
This story contains the key to understanding these all, self-examination, and self-understanding in the example of one man. I personally know quite a few heroes like he. He was chosen because he was a current low-hanging fruit I came across – and I picked it. He is, at least until he reads this comment, unaware why I picked him.
However…the payoff is not the conclusion. Rather, the voyage itself on which you have embarked.
Look, some people neither will change, nor will they change their minds or use reason to guide their lives. They’ve already lost, set in their ways, threw in the towel, are mostly narcissistic and smug in their failed lives, and are likely undereducated and overopinionated. Others are so overeducated that they know everything that is not so. These two groups are not the happiest of men, let’s put it that way, and the hatred in their hearts is understandable – even if they deny that hatred. Chances are that what they read next will make them even more unhappy – and we don’t want that now, do we?
THE REST OF US WILL WATCH THAT SHORT VIDEO TWICE, THREE TIMES. BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT TO SEE IT…
The upside to all this is, unhappy people not understanding why they’re unhappy will die exactly as unhappy, angry, smug, and unsatisfied about their lot as they’ve lived, and no one will miss them.
The downside, provided you’ll read and absorb the 10 minute YouTube AN AMERICAN STORY, are my words next.
“Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it. Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can exists only as parasites on the thinking of others.” – wrote Ayn Rand almost a century before AI wrote your PhD dissertation far better than your professor ever could write his.
Now you understand why groupthink leftwing professors at your schools and universities mock reason and the one woman who has held their feet to the fire since she and Atlas Shrugged. Why they aim to diminish her legacy is that the psychology and philosophy you learned in Advanced Self-Pleasuring is utter garbage filled with circular reasoning and either-or dichotomies, and will not address issues in the real world. Reason cannot support the premises of the leftwing culture. For example they cannot fathom the reasons Donald Trump got elected twice, survived multiple assassination attempts, and why no one could defeat him after they’ve thrown everything, the book and the kitchen sink at him.
The unhappy result for them was that the Trump Family are and always have been a happy bunch, the people who got him elected are happy about the results they got, and his opponents became even more unhappy – especially those of Kenyan descent.
What if what you’ll read and see in the video is the very secret to a happy life?
You might even understand the reason why most philosophy professors and other “mentors” with multiple PhDs could never achieve success and happiness for themselves.
Without reason it is impossible to attain success or happiness. Drink, weed, and mushrooms are temporary substitutes for it however.
What if you don’t like the secret to success for “political” reasons? What would that say about you? In other words, say you are offended by a silver platter filled with delicacies, even if you are ravenously famished, but because you don’t like the waiter’s politics for whatever reason, you punch him in the face?
So no one eats. Which is really what gave you the pleasure?
I’ve just described a certain mindset many of us have encountered. I can’t have it and neither can you. I never achieved anything of value and will not recognize what you had achieved. He has a new Porsche 911 in his garage with a reserved parking space at his place of work and I take the packed bus with no seats and no airconditioning. The sour, bitter, and the perpetually offended – most of your academicians I will add – will never achieve what our example here has.
It is the mindset of those who will tell you (because they usually can’t afford them), an IWC watch is not worth it, or a MEDFORD knife, Leica binocular, or a Birkin or Kelly handbag for $12,000 are not worth what people pay for these “luxury” items. As it were, arguably most luxury items make people happy. Few are worth what they cost. These products, all happen to be painstakingly difficult to manufacture, are worth every penny – and then some. Even NATO thinks so.
The Swiss IWC is as American as Apple Pie!
People literally have no idea how these goods are made and what it takes to make them. Click the IWC link above to find out. Have patience – it is an eyeopener. Think about it this way: if one lacked the understanding of how a TESLA is manufactured, what it took to develop and then manufacture the product, one might say the car is not worth it.
Nevertheless they are all over the streets of the world.
The point of this story, as revelatory as it will become, is that it is not political. Rather, it is psychological, economic, and cultural. It is a story about results, not ideology, which is what surrounds you, depriving you of happiness. In politics you only hear ideology and promises, not the satisfaction from results. For example the announcement next is entirely free of both politics and ideology. It is the kind of announcement you will never hear from leftie politicians. The second link provides the results which only a denialist will deny.
GOVERNOR OF TEXAS IN WHEELCHAIR PROVES WHAT IS POSSIBLE
THE WORLD MADE ANEW – Victor Davis Hansen
What I am getting at, and what I will prove to your satisfaction as we make stops along this journey, is that there is a way of thinking that leads to happiness AND wealth. And that your time spent on this lesson and the items cited above are worth it. Examples of success-oriented thinking surround us everywhere. As Greg Medford explains in the video soon to come your way, everything your heart desires is there for the taking. He just decided to take it.
CONSERVATISM IS NOT IDEOLOGY. IT IS THE ANTIDOTE TO IT. – Roger Scruton
If this rant were purely political, we’d probably gain nothing. We might disagree about the history or the facts. Or about belief systems or our orthodoxies. But the empirical evidence is demonstrable. Everything is knowable. Or we will eventually know it anyway. If we can’t measure a phenomenon today, tomorrow we will measure it.
If the content were psychological, then we’d need to examine what led the waiter to offer you the delicacies on the silver platter; why the silversmith voted Democrat or Republican; how did you discover how the silversmith voted; what led you to punch the man in the face; and what satisfied you watching the other guests go hungry?
If it were economic however, or at least focused on the eventual measurable results only – as it should because everything is measurable including the economic value of your time reading this and my writing it – you’d take the opportunity to gain or learn something from the incident.
In other words, we’d both profit. You would profit in countless ways – we can’t even imagine how many – and I from the pleasure of seeing you having profited.
The difference from my gaining pleasure from your profiting and others gaining pleasure from your loss and pain is vast. Anyone with an inquiring mind might explore the matter.
As you know, lies do not usually upset people much. Misrepresenting what I am saying in this missive would be pointless.
What genuinely unhinges people (and such folk are usually angry and resentful by nature anyway – people who enjoy other’s pain), are truths.
Take this economic truth that will come alive in the personal experience of every American who has not swallowed the fantasy of a better economic system that never was; truths that both Marx and Engels missed – and you cannot unsee:
“The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialist enterprises, by government-union-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises engaging in a profit-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.“ – said MILTON FRIEDMAN? to Ronald Reagan over 40 years ago when America’s GDP was one third of what it is today, and today’s is double what it was under Obama.
Note: Friedman’s last sentence described the Soviet Union and all the East Block nations during the Soviet era, today’s Cuba, recently Venezuela, and tomorrow North Korea. Photo credit.
WHAT WE COVER HERE IS THE RESOUNDING SUCCESS OF SUPPLY MEETING DEMAND. You see, happiness, just happens. There’s a big supply of it.
PART II – A GUIDE TO HAPPINESS – THE VIDEO IS COMING TO YOUR MAILBOX SOON!
© Andrew G. Benjamin is in finance, real estate and equities, a former advisor to New York City mayor‘s office (Subcommittee on Taxation, Finance and the Budget). Benjamin wrote extensively about politics, transnational and domestic, intelligence and military affairs, security and strategy, economic issues, Mideast, terrorism, technology and high end audio. Copyrighted material cannot be disseminated commercially without permission from its author or publisher; and are used herein for information and educational purposes only under Sec. 107 of the Fair Use Notice.
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