Tag: innovation
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Find the Cure – Ignore the Symptoms
HISTORICAL BREAKTHROUGH CHANGES OCCUR WHEN INNOVATORS SEEK CURES FOR SOCIETAL PROBLEMS by James E. Smith and Michelle Jamshidi, ©2017 (Nov. 10, 2017) — We have become a society steeped in the habit of identifying the symptoms of a problem and then committing our personal and fiscal resources to managing those symptoms. Only rarely do we…
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The Distorted Window Through Which Americans Perceive Reality
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2017, President, NARLO (Sep. 3, 2017) — In a book we wrote a number of years ago entitled “Our Cosmic Connection,” we opened one of the chapters with the following observation: “In spite of all of our individual and collective faults, there is a ‘great good’…
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America’s Collapse is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy – UNLESS!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Jan. 31, 2016) — “There is only one social system that reflects the sovereignty of the individual, the free market, capitalist system.” William E. Simon, Treasury Secretary. * * * * * * * * * * * * * Over 34 years…