Occasional Cortext: Hates Capitalism, LOVES Capital

…y‘ve requested, clearly, to voice their concerns.”   Socialists like Occasional Cortex SO hate capitalism. But they SO want its money.   Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest. Also follow Dr. Hurd on Twitter at @MichaelJHurd1, and see “Michael Hurd” on MeWe…. Continue reading

Relax…But

…your relaxation time better, even if the quantity is somewhat smaller. By ‘quality’ I mean a feeling of satisfaction while you are relaxed, rather than an ever-present sense of guilt over what you should be doing, but aren’t doing as you ‘relax.’ It’s very bad to have relaxation/refueling become associated with guilt. The two should not be mixed, and don’t have to be. Either you have objectively earned the relaxation time, or you haven’t. (You hav… Continue reading

Anti-White Supremacy Just as Bad as White Supremacy

…it and productivity are diminished or eliminated. It’s the same with racism-in-reverse (which is still racism). Affirmative action, for example, orders businesses to make profit secondary to having a certain quota of people who are of a certain race (or gender, or some other victim group). This is no more economic, or profitable, than the opposite racial ideas which preceded it. Why is this so hard to understand? It’s time to move beyond slavery a… Continue reading

An Rx for Depression: Turn off TV News! (DE Wave)

…No news network will ever do that for you. TONS OF NEW PODCASTS WITH DR. HURD AND TRUMP ASSOCIATE ROB ARLETT…CLICK HERE! Follow Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, and engage in back-and-forth discussion with Dr. Hurd on topics of interest. Also follow Dr. Hurd on Twitter at @MichaelJHurd1… Continue reading

Depressed? Turn off TV news!

…o profitable for news networks to only talk about the negative: Because people eat it up. If people tuned it out in mass numbers, the networks would change. But we don’t, so they won’t. It helps to understand how the mind works and what causes emotions. The computer age spawned a great saying: ‘garbage in, garbage out,’ and that gets to the root of it. If you constantly put negative thoughts and facts into your mind, with no balance or perspective… Continue reading

Free Will: The Engine of Mental Health

…f recording new ‘tapes’ over the old ones. We all possess the ability to re-program our minds, where we judge it necessary and desirable. With repeated effort, we can replace the undesirable thoughts, ideas, and actions with ones we judge to be desirable. Examples? Making and maintaining a hierarchy of priorities and values. Any of us can decide (with cool, objective detachment) what’s most important to us, what’s moderately important, and what’s… Continue reading

What’s Wrong With President Trump’s July 4 Military Show?

…nd freedom. Whether President Trump always takes the exact right (i.e., pro-freedom, pro-individual rights) position on every issue is not the point. The point is that freedom is HIS overriding premise — and it’s NOT the overriding premise of the socialist, statist media/elite establishment. For that reason, shows of force under any Republican president who shares the premise that America is a great nation because of its respect for individual rig… Continue reading

Watching D.C. is Like Watching a Bad Marriage

…n skyrocket. Most people say they’re sick of ‘ideology’ and politics. They simply want the government officials to ‘come together and fix the problem.’ OK, then. But doesn’t coming together and ‘fixing the problem’ imply a rational assessment of all the relevant facts? Look at the most relevant fact. The government takes in far, far less than it spends. The conventional solution to this problem is ‘raise taxes on the rich.’ In 2008, both president… Continue reading

Have We Failed Our Veterans?

…ffairs to address the issue. But those efforts have remained halting and incomplete, critics say. If the Veterans Administration is unwilling and unable to provide adequate medical care for obvious physical problems, how can we expect this single-payer system of socialized medicine to “address” the more elusive problem of suicide? A big part of the problem is that the veterans of the unit, like hundreds of thousands of other young veterans, fall b… Continue reading

Self-Employment: The Buck Stops with You

…has undesirable characteristics, that’s fine. But if you dislike your boss simply because he or she is your boss, then it’s time to step back and reconsider. The point is simple: The reason you have a boss is because you’re unable or unwilling to be self-employed at this time. If you were self-employed, you’d answer directly to your customers. Your boss, especially in a large company, serves as a buffer between you and the customers. In other word… Continue reading

Inside the School Shooter’s Mind

…e ability and willingness to see reality and existence from another’s point-of-view. Empathy is part of what prevents a normal person from ever considering the initiation of force against another. Respect for that person’s rights — “I have no right to take another’s life” — is part of the core belief. But what weaves and holds that core belief together is the quality of empathy, which means imagining how horrifying it would be to the others you’re… Continue reading

Marxism Turning California into a 21st Century Ghost Town

…arnings. The more you wallop the private sector with high taxes, impossible-to-follow and inherently unjust regulations and all the rest of the policies based ultimately on Marxism, the more the middle class declines. The more the middle class declines, the more you hear the complaints now coming out of California: It’s too expensive to live there. Progressivism also makes victims out of people who are usually not victims, people such as the homel… Continue reading