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Christopher Holshek
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Is Freedom Just Another Word?
This article appeared in Medium.com on June 5th 2020...
As editor of my high school newspaper, I interviewed our principal, Herbert Fliegner. Starting in the Hitler Youth, he was pressed, as a child soldier, to defend Berlin, then again involuntarily inducted into the Young Pioneers in the Soviet zone before escaping to West Germany. After he emigrated to the United States, the Army drafted him. Un Read more of this blog post »
As editor of my high school newspaper, I interviewed our principal, Herbert Fliegner. Starting in the Hitler Youth, he was pressed, as a child soldier, to defend Berlin, then again involuntarily inducted into the Young Pioneers in the Soviet zone before escaping to West Germany. After he emigrated to the United States, the Army drafted him. Un Read more of this blog post »
“What is good about America is all our doing; what is not is all our fault.”
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
“By taking that personal journey in service to others, we change ourselves. When we change ourselves, we change our communities. By changing our communities, we change America. And when we change America, we change the world.”
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
“By taking that personal journey in service to others, we change ourselves. When we change ourselves, we change our communities. By changing our communities, we change America. And when we change America, we change the world.”
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
“What is good about America is all our doing; what is not is all our fault.”
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
― Travels with Harley: Journeys in Search of Personal and National Identity
“[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.”
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
“Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term planning and willingness to reconsider core values. On reflection we can also recognize the crucial role of these same two choices for the outcomes of our individual lives.”
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
“To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the biggest businesses is empowering and hopeful, rather than disappointing. My conclusion is not a moralistic one about who is right or wrong, admirable or selfish, a good guy or a bad guy. My conclusion is instead a prediction, based on what I have seen happening in the past. Businesses have changed when the public came to expect and require different behavior, to reward businesses for behavior that the public wanted, and to make things difficult for businesses practicing behaviors that the public didn't want. I predict that in the future, just as in the past, changes in public attitudes will be essential for changes in businesses' environmental practices.”
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
― Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
