The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for.
Joseph Campbell, quoted in Matt Ridley and Alina Chan, Viral: The Search for the Origins of COVID-19 (2021) as the epigraph to the first chapter.
Irish-English medievalist, theologian, and novelist Clive Staples Lewis was born on November 29, 1898. Among his best known works are Out of the Silent Planet, The Problem of Pain, Miracles, and the “Narnia” fantasies for children. His novelistic retelling of the Psyche myth, Till We Have Faces, and political essays such as “The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment” and The Abolition of Man, will almost certainly stand the test of time.
Paul Jacob expresses gratitude for all the blessings of our time, notwithstanding China imperialism, social media censorship, and our culture of violence.
When everything has to be right, something isn’t.
Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Unkempt Thoughts (Myśli nieuczesane, 1957; Jacek Galazka, translator, 1962).
In 1894, on November 28, economics journalist Henry Hazlitt was born. Halitt went on to write numerous books, including Economics in One Lesson, Time Will Run Back, and several works criticizing Keynesianism. He was the main proponent of the work of Ludwig von Mises and F.A. Hayek in America during the 1940s and 1950s.
Exactly one year earlier, women voted in a national election for the first time . . . in New Zealand. On the same date in 1917, the Estonian Provincial Assembly declared itself the sovereign power of Estonia. November 28 also marks the independence of Mauritania from France (1960), and East Timor from Portugal.
The title notwithstanding, Paul Jacob is still thankful. All that and the big stories of the week on This Week in Common Sense for Thanksgiving week, 2021:
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power, we discovered, its enabling force. Transparency is the only antidote.
Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide (2014).
November 27, 1295, the first elected representatives from Lancashire were called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as “The Model Parliament.”
On the same date in 1895, Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, thereby establishing the Nobel Prizes.
I AM . . . somebody!
. . . with an officially “restricted” Facebook account.
I’d like to thank my family and friends for always believing in me — even many decades ago when it was unclear if I had what it takes to even get arrested. And now, after repeated validation per that previous metric, comes my crowning Internet-era achievement: running afoul of the information-squelching policy of massive Meta censorship.
I’m deeply humbled by the recognition.
“Your post didn’t follow our Community Standards” was all the information provided. It flagged a post of nearly a month earlier.
“Tomorrow is the big day for the first city — London — to take part in the Punjab Referendum organized by Sikhs for Justice,” my October 30th post read. “It will be a long
An “Account Restricted” label appeared on my homepage with the note: “Only you can see this.”
The ban stops me from personally “going live” or “advertising” for 30 days. Two things I don’t do.
But let’s not allow the absurdity of it all to mask what’s happening: Voices that do not fit the official government-induced corporate narrative are harassed and silenced in a major avenue for communication.
The too-often-violent situation in the Punjab region of India, what many Sikhs call “Khalistan,” is tense. The non-binding, non-governmental referendum I posted about has been outlawed by India’s government.
Blocking and punishing posts that speak truthfully about a democratic approach to that ugly division hardly solves the problem.
It works in this case (and others) to prevent a peaceful resolution.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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