Craig Maciolek

  • Who Are Our Heroes?

    When art reflects life, it is an exploration; an effort to understand and process. When life mimics art, 99.9% of the time it is a fraud being perpetrated to influence and manipulate. Continue reading

  • Maturity and Social Structure

    The modern battle between Neanderthal and Cro-magnon. Our capitalist society measures maturity by a person’s ability (and willingness) to make money, pay bills, and buy things. However, true maturity in the environment is best measured by how confident a person… Continue reading

  • Boiling Water

    During WWI, the Germans aided Vladimir Lenin in sneaking back into Russia with the hopes that he would destabilize Russia and get them out of the war. He did. For centuries, it has been very common for one nation to… Continue reading

  • More Than Money

    Money is evil. A necessary evil. It is necessary to get the things we need to survive. What makes it evil is that it can take over our identity, personality, and soul. Good and evil is about who makes the… Continue reading

  • Pardon Me?

    Humans practice the Large Baby Reproduction Gambit. We are hard-wired to put our own children first. Thus, we should never allow people with children into positions of power. Nor, for that matter, should people with power be allowed to own… Continue reading

  • Everyday Justice

    I have siblings who are not comfortable in the presence of their elderly parents. It is not their fault, per se, they are exactly like their parents,.. and the parents before them. Nor do I think they are unique or… Continue reading