In my first grade the classroom was a small room, no more than 12 by 15 feet on the second floor of a caravanserai. The dictionary says that in the desert regions caravanserai (also spelled caravansary) is an inn with a central courtyard. That was all that my small city could afford as “school,” a few rooms at the city’s caravanserai. The caravanserai was on a dirt alley at the end of the city’s bazar. It had a main gate that opened into a square courtyard. The yard was dug o

The place I lived when I was ten years old I remember most. I call it my “village.” I learned much about life there. There I learned that if I lie, I turn into an enemy of God. That would be a really big deal. As my parents put it, the last thing anyone would want is to become an enemy of God. I paid close attention to that. Kept that in mind as long and as intensely as I could. Then … there were the pastries. My dad had the habit of every so often visiting the bakery and get

Why do I focus on Sean Hannity? Because he talks to millions every day. Why do I want to see him in the mirror of the Sermon on the Mount? That requires a bit more explanation. When you read The Choice Maker and learn about the Sermon on the Mount, the first thing you learn is “knowledge deficiencies.” The first thing the Sermon on the Mount asks is: can you see knowledge deficiencies? And implicit in that question is the obvious follow-up. If you can see the knowledge defici

Are we ever surprised at trash cans we fill every day at our homes? We’re not. It is a normal part of our daily life. The way humans produce goods and services always ends in trash and we have accepted it as the normal way of living. As it turns out and I will explain the foundational reasons for its existence, killing students at schools with guns is also a “societal trash” we create and need to get used to its presence. So let me turn to foundations of human life to explain

Here are my thoughts. How can I make you understand Mr. Trump if you have not read any of my books and lack an understanding of life’s foundations? Read my books, especially The Sucker Punch of Sharing and you’ll quickly see that every society comes into existence from “shared capabilities” that produce goods and services for the needs of all. Do you know what I mean by “shared capabilities”? I doubt it, but I continue. The sharing of capabilities takes shape within a legal n

When it comes to lying, based on millennia of experience, humans have developed two prominent norms. The first: Don’t lie because lying destroys relationships and thus destroys life. The second: Do lie because it gains things and prevents loss and exposure to wrath of others. This simple foundational picture draws the paths we may take in life. In a sense, at every moment, everyone vacillates between these two norms. On one hand everyone lies. One time or other we all lie in

I am writing about the human ignorance of “trade deficit,” the stupidity that humans exhibit when thinking about how humans share capabilities with one another to produce goods and services everyone needs in daily life. Just in case you’re wondering, by ignorant I mean someone that does not know a fact of life. By stupid I mean someone that faces ignorance and demonstrates no sense of learning and gaining knowledge to address the ignorance. When a human takes ignorance as all

I bet you would be surprised to hear that “tariff” is a device for managing the point of balance between producers of goods and services and consumers of goods and services. Let me explain. Consider a simple picture of a product’s supply and demand. In my simple example a country’s supply and demand for a product has achieved balance at five units produced and five units consumed at a price of 5. All this happens in the country isolated from the rest of the world. It seems li

To understand what they do and why they are doing it you have to understand “brute force” as foundation of human life—in fact as foundation of universe. Every aspect of human life, every aspect of universe comes into existence through managing brute force. Read The Sucker Punch of Sharing and Here Comes the Watchman for detailed understanding but for now let me draw a simple picture. The North Korea and Iran behave as they do because they are exposed to the brute force of oth