The best time to kick someone may be when they are down, but don’t fool yourself regarding the cleverness of doing so.

i. Ideologies are like drug pushers.
ii. Ideologies define control.
iii. Ideologies differ by degrees of freedom and fanaticism.
iv. Ideologies defy reality to the point of corruption.
v. Ideologies defile by action as backlash tumbles the blocks.

Vanity negates beauty unto ugliness.

The Fall always seems to begin in the autumn.

High performance systems are inherently unstable, this making reform impossible without first utterly stalling.

Failure is an empty tomb.

America's Defense Meltdown

Advance Preview of America's Defense Meltdown available now. Produced by the military reform movement. Includes chapters by William S. Lind and other associated with DNI.

I can never resist a work that is sure to be hated.

Decadence shoves respect under a rock.

Reality is an intruder to party politics.

Determinism is a determination to fail.

Disaster is not a technicality for its victims.

Panic negates sense.

All Aphorisms, All The Time

Some of my aphorisms have been featured on All Aphorisms, All The Time a blog by James Geary, who is the author of The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism.

Thanks.

A dull blade can still function as a bludgeon.