Rabbit Holes ad Infinitum: Musings and Research

  Power beyond Reason J.M. Rogers …             Logic and reason, like compassion and empathy, are of little use to World Leaders. Idealism, rooted in personal passions, whether radical or calcitrant, holds sway in the court of leadership. Intellectuals, artists, laborers, and invalids, are mules of the teamster, teamsters who themselves labor under the demands of privileged landowners (old money). To claim the existence of established processes conducive to the amassing of power, whether derived from scholarly study, political campaigning, or fanatical complicity with established societal orders, is farcical and delusional. True power rests in the whims of those who reside in seats of S upreme Authority,  Seats long filled and seldom vacated. Whether such Seats were attained as a result of heritage, political corruption, nepotism/cronyism or, as is typically the case, a combination of these factors deconstructs the no...

  Why We Fight J.M. Rogers             It is commonly thought that wars are matters of strategy and tactics; that they are logistical affairs that hinge upon military execution and the brilliance of leading men whose boldness compels a force to victory; that the classical sentiments of honor, bravery, and selflessness, are the eternal motivations that drive soldiers to fight family and nation; that war is a trial of good and evil where justice is the primary goal of all involved. And yet, when studying the subject of war more closely, it becomes apparent that most, if not all, of the strategic details, are only discussed amongst a small, avarice-bound cohort; that ordinary soldiers dismiss the praises of honor, bravery, and willful self-sacrifice; that the only justice is peace; that all men are capable of evil. If these time-honored tropes are not the motivating factors for humanity’s bloodiest exchanges and if most of t...