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 [GRZUID129]

• 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 Warrior Mindset
• The Relentless Pursuit of Victory
• The Priest-Patton Scale; Or, Objective-Based Leadership
• The Tarpeian Rock; Or, America’s Hard Decisions
• The Political Leadership Narrative; Or, “Don’t Worry, This Won’t Hurt a Bit.”
• Are You Running With Your Shoes Untied? – Or, the Despise of Failure by Self-Inflicted Wounds
• Trump Time; Or, The Leadership Dilemma, Part II; Morality v. The Primary Objective

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.