Maciolekism

The Pursuit of Context

It took me a long time to learn, frustratingly brutal trial and error, fighting presumptions and misconceptions, but eventually I realized that all of my writing leads to this work: Maciolekism. My very own philosophy.

Latest Posts

  • Conflict Avoidance

    I am a Conflict Avoider. There,.. I said it. I will go to great lengths to avoid conflict. It is not that I am afraid of conflict, or a good fight for that matter, it is just that I am… Continue reading

  • Building Work Routines

    It is easy to make friends in this world. Simply find a public place that is comfortable and sit there at the same time of day and week repeatedly. It will not take long before other people who frequent the… Continue reading

  • A Perspective of Work

    There was a period of my life when I worked in the forest. During those years I was involved in the fighting of forest fires. What I learned about work from those experiences is this… when there are clear orders,… Continue reading

  • Democracy hinders projects that require a lot of capital.Capitalism undermines projects that require consensus. Continue reading

  • The Purpose Driven Life

    From my perspective, the greatest achievement of the Baby Boomer generation is that they changed the vocabulary of capitalism. They did not change capitalism… in fact, capitalism changed them. Like it does everyone. (Capitalism kicked their butt, to be honest.)… Continue reading

  • There Is No Climax

    Applied Political theory is like a video game. Children will play with it until they go down every passage, explore every corner, learn every secret, and exploit every trick. After that, they become destructive in their boredom… unless they move… Continue reading

  • Distortions

    We humans have a predisposition to compete, and in conversation that means we are pressured to exaggerate, distort, and lie. Thus, it requires practice, discipline, and focus for the average person to have a conversation without exaggerating, distorting, or lying.… Continue reading

  • A Good Religion

    There are three general environments that we live in: the Socio-political, Economic, and Natural. All three have value as we try to build an enduring civilization, but only the Natural environment is not man-made. And only the Natural environment has… Continue reading

  • Ecosystem Management

    We are living through a time, in the evolution cycle of a civilization, when the fanatics have taken control. There are many things in an ecosystem that we cannot understand, much less control. Wise managers will spend time and effort… Continue reading

  • A Warrior’s Repose

    The most important role of a warrior is to be prepared… which involves knowing how to rest and be still when times are calm.(The Samurai pursued poetry and other forms of art.) If they do not have this discipline;if they… Continue reading