The Blame Game

• Blame 101. Or, Attitude, and Sticks and Stones. – No. 88. The Eagle and the Arrow [GRZ98_88]
• Bad Attitude 101. Or, Complainers. – No. 14. The Oxen and the Wheels [GRZ98_14]
• Projection, Fault Displacement and Easy Excuses – No. 95. The Traveler and His Dog [GRZ98_95]
• Self-Power. Prayer, Hope and Luck. Or, Just Do It. – No. 77. Hercules and the Waggoner [GRZ98_77]
• The Three Noble Cardinal Rules of Wisdom [GRZ189]
• The Two “Master Virtues” [GRZ209]
• Lincoln: Good v. Evil; Or, Thoughtlessness by Simplistic Vilification [GRZ126]
• The Reason Why Political and Economic Systems Fail [GRZ145]
• Critical Thinking and the Conflation of Character, Integrity [GRZ148]
• On Empathy: To Give Empathy Is a Blessing, But… [GRZ106]
• The Master and Turtle: Are Feelings and Thinking Equal? [GRZ231]
• [The Primary Objective Series]
• [Hope and Trust Series]

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Basic Things We Think We Know

• The Jefferson Riddle. Query Me This, Fellow Patriot: What Causes the Broken Leg That Never Occurred? [GRZ289] (Do we really know what that Jefferson’s “Broken Leg” quotation means?)
• All Men Are Not Created Equal, or Why Thomas Jefferson Got it Wrong [GRZ78] (Do we really know the difference in the purpose of the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? Or, the types of “equality” of man?)
• Branding America – In God We Trust. Or, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Washington Debate the American Slogan [GRZ82] (Do we really understand why “In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum” have significantly different implications for national social division?)
• The Three Noble Cardinal Rules of Wisdom [GRZ189] (Do we really understand the three core principles of wisdom?)
• The Two “Master Virtues” [GRZ209] (Can the Cardinal Virtues be further reduced?)
• I Never Promised to Love My Wife, or All About Oaths [GRZ39X] (Do we really understand oaths?)
• Lincoln: Good v. Evil; Or, Thoughtlessness by Simplistic Vilification [GRZ126] (Do we understand Lincoln’s Socratic humility?)
• Love v. Fear to Motivate: Which is Better? [GRZ216] (Do we understand how love and fear motivate differently?)
• The Mean Insult v. The Tactical Insult [GRZ108] (Do we understand how “the game” interferes with simplistic conclusions?)
• The Two Doors of Life: Pleasure and Pain [GRZ136] (Do we understand how the sages say pain is displaced not dispelled?)
• The Reason Why Political and Economic Systems Fail [GRZ145] (Do we understand basic political theory?)
• Critical Thinking and the Conflation of Character, Integrity [GRZ148] (Do we know that Character and Integrity are distinct?)
• On Empathy: To Give Empathy Is a Blessing, But… [GRZ106] (Do we understand the two-way street of empathy?)
• Are Feelings and Thinking Equal? [GRZ231] (Do we understand how feelings and thinking are reconciled?)
• [The Primary Objective Set] (Do we understand the importance of The Primary Objective in decision-making?)

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President Donald Trump

• The Warrior Mindset – Stand for America® [GRZ80]
• The Lost Donald Trump Executive Meeting Transcript Now Revealed! [GRZ109]
• Donald Trump, the Presidential Mountain, and When the Game is Really Over [GRZ110]
• Donald Trump; Or, The Mean Insult v. The Tactical Insult [GRZ108]
• Love v. Fear to Motivate: Which is Better? [GRZ216]

• The Priest-Patton Scale; Or, Objective-Based Leadership [Primary Objective, Part 1] [GRZ162]
• Are You Running With Your Shoes Untied? – Despise of Self-Inflicted Wounds [Primary Objective, Part 3] [GRZ208]
• Role Alignment; Or, “Relevant Integrity” [Primary Objective, Part 4] [GRZ286] [7/29/26]
• The Republicans Need to Learn from the Democrats; Or, Prepare to Stop. [GRZ215]
• The Friendly Russian – Stand for America® [GRZ_77]
• The Fable of Voting for a Three-Legged Horse – Stand for America® [GRZ45X]
• Trump v. Lincoln- The Over-Man v. The Philosopher King – Nietzsche v. Socrates – Machiavelli v. Everyone [GRZ220]
• Trump Time; Or, The Leadership Dilemma, Part II; Morality v. The Primary Objective [GRZ223]
• Trump’s Achilles Heel, Stepping on the 14th Amendment [GRZ225]
• Why the “Gulf of America” is Not Just Trump Egotistical Narcissism; Or, Strategic Thinking 101 [GRZ239]

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Socrates and Prayer

• [Aesop Set]
• [ONE: Unified Gospel of Jesus Set]
• [The Proseuché (Prayer of Socrates) Set]

• The ONE LinkedIn Reference Set Index [GRZ183]
• AI Answers: Did Jesus Study Aesop? [GRZ253]
• The Importance of Aesop to Socrates [GRZ100]
• Socrates Foreshadows His Fate; Or, The Allegory of the Cave – Theory of Forms [GRZ279]
• Socrates and the Social Contract – Crito [GRZ273]

• AI Review The Proseuche (The Prayer of Socrates) [GRZ250]
• AI Reviews ONE: The Unified Gospel of Jesus (Divine and Universal) [GRZ258]
• The Two Doors of Life: Pleasure and Pain; Say Sages Aesop, Gracian, Jesus and Socrates [GRZ136] 
• Trump v. Lincoln- The Over-Man v. The Philosopher King – Nietzsche v. Socrates – Machiavelli v. Everyone [GRZ220]
• Freedom of Religion, by Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia) – Abridgment Series [GRZ61]
• The Three Noble Cardinal Rules of Wisdom [GRZ189] [7/29/26]
• The Two “Master Virtues” – The Executive Summary [Part 1] [GRZ209] [7/29/26]
• Baby’s First Prayer [GRZ244]
• “The Lincoln Prayer” [GRZ284]
• Thanksgiving – An Atheist’s Prayer; Or, A Universal Prayer [GRZ277]

[See prior Homepage Lists here.]

Amor Patriae Abridgments

• Freedom of Religion, by Thomas Jefferson (Notes on the State of Virginia) – Abridgment Series [GRZ61]
• John Adams, Thoughts on Government – Abridgment Series [GRZ75]
• George Washington’s 75 Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior – Abridgment Series [GRZ95]
• John F. Kennedy: Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, September 12, 1960 – Abridgment Series [GRZ198]
• The Gettysburg Address Anniversary – Abridgment Series [GRZ217]
• Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography – The 13 Virtues – Abridgment Series [GRZ85]
• In Memoriam: Benjamin Franklin Speaking of the Builders of Babel – Abridgement Series [GRZ135]
• The Declaration of Independence – Abridgment Series [GRZ31X]
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! Patrick Henry – Abridgment Series [GRZ30X]
• John Stuart Mill – Leadership is Thinking Independently – Abridgment Series [GRZ46]
• John Stuart Mill – Leadership and Being Unique from the Crowd – Abridgment Series [GRZ47]
• * Branding America – In God We Trust. Or, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Washington Debate the American Slogan – Stand for America® [GRZ82]

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God in US Government?

• The Woman Wins. Now. It’s About Time. [GRZ199]
• The Evolution of Revolution; Or Stopping the Revolution at 180°, And Not Going Full Circle [GRZ172]
• “Forgive Them; They Know Not What They Do.” Folly to Socialize the Meaning of Life [GRZ219]
• The Perennial Debate: If We Step on a Polliwog, Do We Kill a Polliwog or a Frog? [GRZ196]
• The Orderly Administration Of A Diverse People. America Is Not A Church. [GRZ170]
• Branding America – In God We Trust. Or, Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and Washington Debate [GRZ82]
• The Round Book; Or, A Dream of Space [GRZ218]
• The Proseuché Set (The Prayer of Socrates)
• The Paradox of Truth; Or, Can God Change God’s Mind? [An AI Conversation] [GRZ267]
• The Greatest Social Security Is Excellence in Education [GRZ228]
• “Does God Exist?” and Other Critical-Thinking Theistic Questions of Folly [GRZ268]
• What is Rational Deism®? The Executive Summary [GRZ266]
• ONE®, On Comparative Religions [GRZ163]
• ONE®, Religion, War and “The Vehicle of the Light Analogy” [GRZ97]
• Secretary of Education McMahon: Is She Strong Enough to Be Our Man? [GRZ234]
• The American Emulsion: Order, Equality, and Freedom; Or, Nation-State Not Made by Purity of Religion,.. [GRZ168]
• Trump’s Achilles Heel, Stepping on the 14th Amendment; The Tie that Binds a Bundle of States [GRZ225]
• The Witches March, “By All Means Possible” – Or, Remembering Bloody Mary, the Holocaust, and Andersonville [GRZ233]
• “Do I Look Like a Christian?” Or, The Gift of “Happy Holidays”[GRZ51]
• Coming Soon: The “Merry Christmas Wars”; Or, Weaponization of Joyous Holiday Greetings [GRZ269]
• Thanksgiving – An Atheist’s Prayer; Or, A Universal Prayer [GRZ277]
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the American Hegemony—Chapter 5 Excerpt—God [GRZ187]
• The Jefferson Riddle. Query Me This, Fellow Patriot: What Causes the Broken Leg That Never Occurred? Think, or Suffer the Effects. [GRZ289] [7/1/26]

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Social Delusion and Hypocrisy

• A Brisk Critical-Thought Exercise in the Circumcision of Circumcision [GRZ152]
• Taiwan, Boycotts, Crossing the Lie: Barbie, Disney, Bud Light, Tik Tok [GRZ149]
• The One Ring of Power – Why Amazon is Now a Fraud of Itself [GRZ130]
• The Fable of a Slave’s Bad Day [GRZ127]
• The Transgender Athletic Homogenization [GRZ211]
• The Rise of the American Hermaphrodite [GRZ210]
• Corporation Reform and Reboot, v.2.0; Only Capitalism, Until It’s Not. [GRZ204]
• Running With Shoes Untied? – Failure by Self-Inflicted Wounds [GRZ208]
• Decline and Fall of the American Hegemony—Ch. 6—Responsibility Failure [GRZ180]
• The Woman Wins. Now. It’s About Time. [GRZ199]
• The Witches March; Or, Remembering the Holocaust [GRZ233]
• The Truth. Hard to Handle, Even Harder to Swallow. [GRZ178]
• Rise of Corporate Social Intimidation (CSI); Smokeless Book Burning [GRZ151]
• The Academy Awards and Bud Light Parallels, Gone Sideways with the Wind? [GRZ147]
• Walt Disney Company is the Most Dangerous Company in the World [GRZ146]
• Death, Sex and Selling: Or, the Science of the Beer Girl [GRZ90]
• The Proseuché (The Prayer of Socrates) Ch. IX [Hope] [GRZ157]
• Disney’s New Lion King – Cowardly or Brave? [GRZ94]
• The Parable of the Clown; Or, The Perspective of Influence [GRZ201]

[See prior Homepage Lists here.]

Delusion of Self

• Be Yourself – No. 73. The Ass in the Lion’s Skin [GRZ98_73]
• The Distinguished Napoleon – Business of Aesop™ – Frog and the Ox [GRZ81]
• Self-Validation and Envy. The Frog and the Ox [GRZ98_2]
• John Stuart Mill – Leadership is Thinking Independently [GRZ46]
• John Stuart Mill – Leadership and Being Unique from the Crowd [GRZ47]
• I Wish I Were You; Maybe Not. Horse and the Ass [GRZ98_91]
• Servant Leadership; Or, A Distinction Without A Difference [GRZ254]
• Is It Worth It? The Tortoise and the Birds [GRZ98_72]
• Goal-Setting: Know Our Limits – Eagle and the Jackdaw [GRZ98_104]
• Validation: Know Thyself First. The Ass and the Lapdog [GRZ98_56]
• The Delusion of Self-Importance. The Fly on the Axle [GRZ98_112]
• Vanity and Self-Delusion. Ass and the Sacred Image [GRZ98_25]
• Keep It Real; Or, Delusion of Self. The Wolf and His Shadow [GRZ98_106]

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Getting Through It!

• Whom the Gods Would Destroy, They First Tease with Political Incorrectness [GRZ74]
• Wisdom v. Compassion; Elizabeth Smart Prediction – No. 60. Woodsman and Serpent [GRZ98_60]
• Bad Attitude 101. Or, Complainers. – No. 14. The Oxen and the Wheels [GRZ98_14]
• Blame 101. Or, Attitude, and Sticks and Stones. – No. 88. The Eagle and the Arrow [GRZ98_88]
• Unwavering Commitment – No. 109. The Boy and the Nettle [GRZ98_109]
• Salt, Wounds, and the Most Unkindest Cuts of All [GRZ67]
• Epictetus. On the Tranquil Flow of Life. – Abridgment Series [GRZ17X]
• Seneca. On the Misfortune of Good Men. Abridgment Series [GRZ18X]
• Theodore Roosevelt-The Strenuous Life – Abridgment Series [GRZ19]
• John Stuart Mill – Leadership is Thinking Independently [GRZ46]
• John Stuart Mill – Leadership and Being Unique from the Crowd [GRZ47]
• Integrity, Reliability and Trust. No. 16. [“The Fool’s Five”] The Boy Who Cried Wolf [GRZ98_16]
• Self-Power. Prayer, Hope and Luck. Or, Just Do It. – No. 77. Hercules and the Waggoner [GRZ98_77]
• Donald Trump; Or, The Mean Insult v. The Tactical Insult [GRZ108]
• What Must Be Done, Will Be Done. [GRZ282]
• Movie Clips [MUID87X], [MUID88X], [MUID175X], [MUID181X]

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NFL Time! Victory and Preparation.

• On Wisdom and Luck; Or, Getting Lucky is not the Same as Being Wise [GRZ155] 
• The Relentless Pursuit of Victory – Stand for America® [GRZ87]
• The Redskins® [GRZ104]
• Athlete’s Game Directive; Or, “Thank you, but don’t stop for me.” [GRZ131_2]
• Kicking Around Big Ideas; Or, NFL Lessons in Human Nature [GRZ192]
• Of Mice and Men; Or, Behold the Man, Harrison Butker [GRZ193]
• Hate Speech v. Bad Speech v. Free Speech Part II [GRZ194]
• Hate Speech v. Bad Speech v. Free Speech Part III – AI [GRZ195]
• Seven Key American Principles; Or, Culture Breaking Culture [GRZ197]
• Prepare. Prepare. Prepare. No. 29. The Wild Boar and the Fox [GRZ98_29]
• The Transgender Athletic Homogenization [GRZ211]
• Self-Power. Prayer, Just Do It- Hercules and the Waggoner [GRZ98_77]
• The Power of the Spirit of Every Teacher and Coach [GRZ99]
• The Two Doors of Life: Pleasure and Pain [GRZ136]
• Mind Control, Protests and the Goal [GRZ64]
• Are You Ready? [GRZ111]
• Planning Ahead and Industry – Ant and Grasshopper [GRZ98_3]
• Hope, Prayer, Trust and Reliance Upon Luck [GRZ137]
• Are You Running With Your Shoes Untied? [GRZ208]
• [The NFL and Athletics Set]
• [MUID226X], [MUID229X], [MUID235X], [MUID236X], [MUID237X]

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A New Year! Reflection and Planning.

• Are You Ready? [GRZ111]
• Self-Power. Prayer, Just Do It- Hercules and the Waggoner [GRZ98_77]
• The Two Doors of Life: Pleasure and Pain [GRZ136]
• Planning Ahead and Industry – Ant and Grasshopper [GRZ98_3]
• Blame 101 – No. 88. The Eagle and the Arrow [GRZ98_88]
• Substance Over Form – Stag and His Reflection [GRZ98_33]
• Is It Worth It? – No. 72. The Tortoise and Birds [GRZ98_72]
• Contentment – City Mouse and Country Mouse [GRZ98_10]
• Hope, Prayer, Trust and Reliance Upon Luck [GRZ137]
• Patience to Wealth – Goose that Laid the Golden Egg [GRZ98_49]
• Enough is Enough – Bird in the Hand [GRZ98_100]
• Think Ahead. Thing From The Seed. – The Swallow and Birds [GRZ98_57]
• To Give Empathy Is a Blessing; To Need Empathy Is a Curse [GRZ106]
• Satisfaction, Appreciation and Greed – The Boy and the Filberts [GRZ98_9]
• The Most Valuable Industry – The Farmer and His Sons [GRZ98_47]
• I Wish I Were You; Maybe Not – War Horse and Ass [Plausible Potentiality] [GRZ98_91]
• The Proseuché (The Prayer of Socrates) Ch. VIII [Prayer] [GRZ131]
• The Grin and the Grain [GRZ119]
• The Scariest Sound in the World [GRZ117]
• Are You Running With Your Shoes Untied? [GRZ208]

Holiday Time! Planning, Thanks, Forgiveness.

• The Most Happiest Time of the Year; Or, the Epistemology of Elfism [GRZ169]
• Priorities, Everything Has A Price – The Peacock [GRZ98_37]
• Thanksgiving – An Atheist’s Prayer; Or, A Universal Prayer [GRZ277]
• “Do I Look Like a Christian?” – Stand for America® [GRZ51]
• Are You Ready? [GRZ111]
• Coming Soon: The “Merry Christmas Wars” [GRZ269]
• A Soft Repose [GRZ275]
• Doctrine of the Infant Soldier [GRZ251]
• First Degree Hope. Guilty? [GRZ272]
• Empathy to Understanding. The Sheep and the Pig [GRZ98_20]
• The Power of the Spirit of Every Teacher and Coach [GRZ99]
• Stand for America® – Issue 1. [GRZ12] 
• The Three Noble Cardinal Rules of Wisdom [GRZ189]
• Be Careful What You Wish For. – The Frogs Desiring a King [GRZ98_58]
• Self-Power. Prayer, Just Do It- Hercules and the Waggoner [GRZ98_77]
• The Two Doors of Life: Pleasure and Pain [GRZ136]
• Value Is As Value Does. The Cock and the Jewel [GRZ98_28]
• Religion, War and “The Vehicle of the Light Analogy” [GRZ97]
• The Flaw of Relative Appreciation – The Hares and the Frogs [GRZ98_39]
• The Reach [GRZ66]
• Substance Over Form – Stag and His Reflection [GRZ98_33]
• Is It Worth It? – No. 72. The Tortoise and Birds [GRZ98_72]
• Contentment – City Mouse and Country Mouse [GRZ98_10]
• Hope, Prayer, Trust and Reliance Upon Luck [GRZ137]
• Patience to Wealth – Goose that Laid the Golden Egg [GRZ98_49]
• Enough is Enough – Bird in the Hand [GRZ98_100]
• Satisfaction, Appreciation and Greed – The Boy and the Filberts [GRZ98_9]

The Roach. Or, Who Are We?

With the new Frankenstein 2025 released on Netflix, it’s a great time to reflect on the human condition. Thus, The Roach and The Naked Brain. But, there’s more here to get started.

• AI Rules: Mother Nature Prefers the Roach Over Human Being, With Great Reason [GRZ256]
• The Naked Brain; Or, Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Human Being [GRZ132]
• The Delusion of Self-Importance – No. 112. The Fly on the Axle [GRZ98_112]
• Death, and Final Disposition of the Once Primary Asset [GRZ129]

• The Fable of a Slave’s Bad Day [GRZ127]
• The Parable of the Clown; Or, The Perspective of Influence [GRZ201]
• The Round Book; Or, A Dream of Space [GRZ218] 
• Substance Over Form. No. 33. The Stag and His Reflection [GRZ98_33]
• The Substance of Things – The Business of Aesop™ No. 33 [GRZ56]
• Keep It Real; Or, Delusion of Self – No. 106. The Wolf and His Shadow [GRZ98_106]

Why did Zegarelli choose the roach, and not something more obviously “positive” like the bee? The choice of the roach is not incidental. It’s deliberate, philosophical, and pedagogical. The Roach is Nature’s Scorned Child. Whereas the bee is socially beloved—associated with sweetness, industriousness, even holiness—the roach is: reviled, feared, associated with filth and decay, and a symbol of human disgust, not admiration. That’s the point. Zegarelli’s use of the roach is an inversion test for the reader. Where the bee flatters human preferences, the roach survives what humanity discards—and does so without our approval. This is not merely counterintuitive. It’s moral pedagogy in the Zegarelli style.  [AI Conversation]

FEATURED ARTICLE: It’s Halloween Time, Again. The Great Masquerade.

The Great Masquerade.

The best thing I have ever written or will ever write:

“The Truth is a jokester, or a liar. For, each time, he comes to me in the exact appearance of my desire. I later discover that he wore a mask. The Truth laughs at me, and I am his fool.”

• The Great Masquerade
• The Witches March

“Horror upon an individual is not meted by relativity.”

• The Scariest Sound in the World

“Separating the fool from the sage, with a never-ending mock, with each second of the clock, tick-tock, tick-tock, tick tock.”

• Self-Delusion

“To the child, a shadow is just a shadow, but, to the philosopher, the Shadow is a horror—perhaps the scariest of all villains.”

FEATURED ARTICLE: The One That Started It All: The Primary Objective:

The Lincoln Leadership Dilemma; Or, The Primary Objective.

Clarity of purpose. Once we know that ONE thing, all else must yield to it. Abraham Lincoln teaches his ONE thing was Saving the Union. Everything yielded to it. Lincoln knew what he needed versus what he wanted. And Lincoln new which one had to come first. The Primary Objective. Read more about it. This article focused the ones that came before it, e.g., The Priest-Patton Scale; Or, Objective-Based Leadership and the ones that came after it, e.g., Are You Running With Your Shoes Untied? A must read.

• The Lincoln Leadership Dilemma; Or, The Primary Objective [GRZ176]
• The Priest-Patton Scale; Or, Objective-Based Leadership [Part 2] [GRZ162]
• Are You Running With Your Shoes Untied? – Or, the Despise of Failure by Self-Inflicted Wounds [Part 3] [GRZ67]
• Role Alignment; Or, “Relevant Integrity,” and Is That Even a Concept? [Part 4] [GRZ286] [5/2/26]

• The Warrior Mindset [GRZ80]
• The Relentless Pursuit of Victory [GRZ87]
• The Tarpeian Rock; Or, America’s Hard Decisions [GRZ205]
• The Political Leadership Narrative; Or, “Don’t Worry, This Won’t Hurt a Bit.” [GRZ207]
• Trump Time; Or, The Leadership Dilemma, Part II; Morality v. The Primary Objective [GRZ223]
• Trusting Intention and Trusting Capability – The Man and the Old Dog [GRZ98_113] [4/5/26] 

FEATURED ARTICLE: This is Part III of a 3-Part Article on Hate Speech v. Bad Speech v. Free Speech. This last Part III is a conversation with ChatGPT on this important subject.

The impetus for Part I was the Harrison Butker comments, Part II was a response to a reader inquiry on monitoring post threads. This Part III follows up on Part II and addresses issues like “passionate contradiction” and how to manage the rhetoric of “hate speech” against a group, when the attribute of the group is attacked, but the group is bound by that attribute. Click here to read more, and to see AI’s thought-process, assessments and judgments.