Craig Maciolek

  • The Sooner, The Better

    Every stage of life is made better, more efficient, if we prepare for it: career, marriage, having children, children leaving home,.. and, most importantly, old age and death. The principle is simple; we cannot start anything new until we let… Continue reading

  • Many little things have conspired to bring an end to democracy; the most significant being ‘unverifiable statistics’. Continue reading

  • Evolving Through the Freedom-Tyranny Cycle

    Civilization evolves by the revolving conflict between tyranny and freedom.  Freedom is marked by risk, uncertainty, and anxiety. After a while, people tire of freedom and naively believe that they can alleviate the anxiety by allowing a coddling system to… Continue reading

  • Civilization evolves by the conflict between tyranny and freedom. The structure of tyranny, the root of which has never changed,.. is totalitarianism, masked by idealism, and driven by greed. Continue reading

  • Shifting Perspectives

    The best governing system for a population of individual people is not the same as the best governing system for a population of individual corporations,.. or individual militaries. A nation must prioritize, and develop a system that protects those priorities,… Continue reading

  • The Descent

    The process of man-made collapse: Spiritual famine begets emotional famine,emotional famine begets intellectual famine,and intellectual famine begets physical famine. … to the fourth generation. Continue reading