Reason Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/reason/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:50:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Reason Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/reason/ 32 32 Understanding Anti-Social Behavior https://mind-at-work.com/understanding-anti-social-behavior/ Sat, 25 Feb 2023 14:10:15 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5198 “Why?” “What could possibly explain this behavior?”  “How did we get to this state of affairs?” These questions and a host of similar ones are asked by millions of Americans every time they read a newspaper or watch a TV newscast. Even individuals who have studied aberrant behavior simply can’t make sense of the dramatic [...]

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]]> The Culture of Absurdity https://mind-at-work.com/the-culture-of-absurdity/ Sat, 30 Jul 2022 13:45:52 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4963 The battle for social dominance is over and the results are clear—common sense has been routed and absurdity is savoring the victory. The signs are everywhere. Here are some of them: Shutting down American fuel industries to help the climate, then buying fuel from countries that hurt it even more. Permitting millions of people to [...]

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]]> Reversing America’s Decline https://mind-at-work.com/reversing-americas-decline/ Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:10:04 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4560 Americans of every race, creed, social and economic condition are increasingly concerned about the decline of their country. Why, they are asking, has common sense given way to nonsense, wisdom to foolishness, sanity to insanity, harmony to discord? This essay addresses that question. From the time of the ancient Greeks to a few generations ago, [...]

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]]> Insights from G. K. Chesterton https://mind-at-work.com/insights-from-g-k-chesterton/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 15:11:51 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4002 Given that Gilbert Keith Chesterton (GKC) died in 1936, some readers may be inclined to ask, “How could his views be of any value in 2020?” He himself provided the answer to that question when he wrote this in Orthodoxy (1908): “An imbecile habit has arisen in modern controversy of saying that such and such a [...]

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]]> Understanding Our Growing Social Chaos https://mind-at-work.com/understanding-our-growing-social-chaos/ Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:30:32 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3944 An anonymous commentary made the rounds of the Internet before it vanished. It pointed out a number of absurdities in America today, the following ones among them: “Russians influencing our elections is bad, but illegal Mexicans voting in our elections is good. It was cool for Joe Biden to ‘blackmail’ the President of Ukraine, but it’s [...]

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