Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes”. Clare Boothe Luce While we boast to be a highly civilized society that cherishes human rights and equality, I wonder...
Demanding attention appears to be a strong drive for human beings. We need attention and we need to feel we are the subjects of interest, at least now and then. This drive manifests itself early in life, when attracting attention is among the things infants probably do best. Just a loud cry and we...
In order to understand the meaning and worth of money, or the economic crisis we are facing, one does not have to be an economist, but a philosopher. Thinking about and researching the worth of money, lead me to reading an excerpt from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. More specifically, it was Francisco d’Anconia’s...
“The only reason a great many American families don’t own an elephant is that they have never been offered an elephant for a dollar down and easy weekly payments.” ~Mad Magazine Mocking the reality of modern American society, Mad Magazine points out our fixation with installments and our ridiculous obsession with consumerism. We seem...
