Author: Henry Barnard

I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.

Harris

Harris. Same BS. Everyone is a racist, especially your opponent, abortion is freedom of choice, not murder, and now we have the “equity” candidate. Dems are all hot air and rhetoric with no real plan or practical ideas. Pathetic. But amazing how many buy into this crap.

But they are good at using the legal system to go after their opponents, and they thrive on government censorship and suppressing freedom of speech, while claiming their opponents are a threat to the Constitution. Crazy stuff.

America is not what it used to be, for sure — a country in decline now. A few more governments by the Dems and we will have bloody chaos in the streets of the cities.

Civil order is a surprisingly thin veneer.

Wokeness

Ignore It?

Should one just ignore the news?

It is usually of the clamorous and disastrous variety. So it is is a huge stressor, and who needs the stress? Plus, one can’t do much about whatever it is anyway.

So why pay any attention to it at all? Just ignore it, for one’s mental health.

In Stoicism, they tell you to concentrate on what is under your control, but ignore everything else — that would include the news, in my opinion

You see these people who never miss a single headline, and it is just making them crazier, although they may not realize it.

Nutrition and Health

Nutrition and Health

I don’t think people realize how powerful for health super nutrition really is — partly because so few people do super nutrition. It is kind of an unexplored territory.

Poor nutrition leads to disease — diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune issues, etc. — but super nutrition leads to health, perhaps a very robust and resilient health.

So food can be the devil or an angel — your choice. Most people choose the devil, perhaps from pure ignorance. But for the few who choose the angel, how far can that take you?

New Game in Old Age

Wokeness

The problem with those who are woke is that their natural empathy and sympathy, which are good qualities, lead them into absurd positions that they don’t recognize the absurdity and the unintended consequences of.

A case in point would be the spate of unjustified police killing of blacks. The woke response was to call for a reduction in police forces around the country. But this just meant that black communities were less protected, as there were fewer cops on the beat and those on the beat tended to shy away from the black section, so black communities actually were subject to even more violence and considerably less protection.

The rational response would have been an increase in the number of police, but with black recruits so that police forces would be less lily white.

Time and again, the knee-jerk woke reaction is to call for absurd responses with terrible consequences.

True Grit

Discipline

When you must do something but you don’t want to — that’s discipline.

It is like a muscle. The more you are able to do it, the stronger it becomes. Conversely, the more you fail to do it, the weaker.

You can’t achieve anything without discipline. There isn’t much you can’t achieve with it.

Heroes