Tag: Resilience
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A Resilient Nation Tests Its Products — Not Its Citizens
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (May 18, 2025) — In today’s bureaucratic vernacular, resilience has become a euphemism for public tolerance of failure. Institutions now invoke the word to imply that a strong society absorbs harm, accepts uncertainty, and trusts authority—regardless of evidence. But this is not resilience. It’s submission. True resilience in a free…
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Be a Model Citizen, and Contribute to Your Civilization’s Resilience
by James Lyons-Weiler, PhD, Popular Rationalism, ©2025 (Apr. 27, 2025) — Introduction: Civilization as a Fragile Inheritance History has no shortage of ruins. From the silent stones of Angkor to the once-mighty aqueducts of Rome, civilizations rise, flourish, and decline. We often imagine collapse as sudden: a war, a plague, a flood. But more often,…