Derek the Strategist

“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree.”
- Michael Crichton

“There is nothing more frightening than ignorance in action."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“People don’t change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.” - Anonymous

Posting this for no apparent reason.

“In times of change, LEARNERS inherit the earth, while the LEARNED find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

- Eric Hoffer

"What I hear, I forget. What I see, I remember. What I do, I understand." Xunzi (340 - 245 BC)

"As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying."-Arthur C Clarke

So tired of all the village idiots who banded together and somehow took over this nation.

“We are very malleable. We can bring out the best in us and it’s our job to design societies which bring out the best and suppress the predispositions which may once served a role, but now are obsolete.”

- Carl Sagan

That’s awesome! You’re wonderfully creative. Time for me to go shopping.

I’d like to recreate that. What did you buy?

"A passionate obsession with the outside world or the private lives of others is an attempt to compensate for a lack of meaning in one's own life."

~Eric Hoffer

"A liar's worst enemy is someone with a good memory" - Dodinsky

Our current predicament can be summed up in one sentence: mediocre men who have the privilege of opinion, without the burden of experience.

“The greater the outward show; the greater the inner poverty.” — Krishnamurti

I echo your sentiment.

"You can’t wake a person who’s pretending to sleep."
— Navajo proverb

This! 👆🏽

Great read. Reposting to all my followers.

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

Well damn! I just invited myself. 😄

I would like that very much. DM me. I travel often for work.

He rarely spoke of his time at war. He did mention liberating a camp and the horrors he witnessed. Makes me wonder if their paths crossed.

What branch of the military did he serve in? Oh wait, he didn’t. Despite being 18 when we invaded Iraq he chose to never serve. He had years to enlist but he didn’t. Tired of all these fake patriots who never served.

A reminder to all here: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.” - William McAdoo

Please stop wasting your precious life energy arguing with fools.

100% accurate!

Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think How Liberals and Conservatives Think

"Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold even more vigorously opposed views of the world, with the underlying assumptions of their respective worldviews at the level of basic morality."

bookshop.org/p/books/mora...

Moral Warfare 101: Frames and Your Brain Part two in a series on the structure of political ideology

"Complex narratives — the kind we find in anyone’s life story, as well as in fairy tales, novels and dramas — are made up of smaller narratives with very simple structures.

"Those structures are called 'frames' or 'scripts.'" - George Lakoff

www.theframelab.org/moral-warfar...

“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” - Antonio Gramsci
Habeas Corpus

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot fight will be victorious.” - Sun Tzu, The Art of War

David Attenborough in a blue suit standing in front of the Natural History Museum with text that says "Happy 99th Birthday Sir David Attenborough!"

Happy Birthday to master storyteller Sir David Attenborough! 🎉

We’ve loved working with Sir David as he delivered the narration to the upcoming immersive experience, Our Story with David Attenborough.

Tickets go on sale in just two weeks. Keep an eye out for the announcement!