Sonic Gravity

Foreshadowed by Critical Thinking Part 1:  Know Thyself, Critical Thinking Part 2, explores the symbiotic relationship between Inductive Reasoning and Deductive Reasoning in a way that only quantum physics can illustrate.
 
 Using the quasi-Inductive, quasi-Deductive critical thinking method, we explore how critical thinkers knew how severe the COVID-19 pandemic would become as early as mid-late January 2020.  
 
 Then we'll look into the future with inductive critical thought and discern the nightmarish vision for 2021 and after, also discernible in January 2020, if the pandemic isn't decisively controlled, vis-a-vis:  viral genetic mutation.  And, in the interest of leaving everyone better than I found them, we'll reveal the solution to arresting the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in a month or less.  
 
Ending the episode on a lighter note, we'll harness the power of inductive critical thought to hunt white collar criminals using Scotty's Warp-Beaming Equation.

I think everyone agrees that, in a vaccine-scarce environment, it's critical to vaccinate our First Responders and Medical Staff first.

But, whoever decided that the rest of the population should be lined up by age with the people closest to dying from old age at the head of the line, and our youngest children at the back, is someone with whom I disagree.

Why are grocery workers and other public servers and check-out clerks not the very next on the list?

If our society values sending children back to school, why are we not vaccinating teachers, school children, and their families before the oldest people in the country?

Why does it make more sense to add 5 or 10 years at the end of someones life, when we could save 40 or 50 years by saving a person who provides the financial support for a family and who's untimely death means a child grows up without a mom or a dad, or a house, just so grandpa can hang on a little while longer?

And who decided?  Who should?

Maybe you believe in God or maybe you don't.  

Whether you do or not, you've probably heard about the debate.  I'm talking about the debate where the people who don't believe in God try to convince the people who do, to abandon their faith and put their trust in science.  At the same time, the people who do believe in God, try to convince those who don't, to abandon their understanding of science and adopt their opponent's religious beliefs.

As you can imagine, neither side has made much progress.

In this episode, I try to objectively unpack the reality of both sides as I see it.  And in the end, I'm left with the sense that the question causes more problems than the answer.

Whether we want a job in construction, or in big business, or at a law firm--whether it is an entry level, intermediate level, or senior executive level, there one constant:  that someone will make the hiring decision and that the Physics of Leadership determines the outcome.

That hiring manager will decide whether or not they see it in their own best interest to hire us based on how we make them feel about their priorities, interests, and future success.

And whether we get the job or not depends on our Art of applying the Physics of Leadership--and whether we can align ourselves with the interests of the hiring officials and the organization.  So, when the time comes for hiring officials select a candidate, we are the candidate they remember based on the feelings we left them with when they considered our application and/or interviewed us.  

What would it take to eradicate American poverty in a generation or less . . . or in a decade or less?

I think I figured it out yesterday.  You be the judge.

Enter my mind and witness how a montage of scattered experiences and empirical observations over the last 25 years,  spontaneously fused in my mind, bound together by the Physics of Leadership, crystalizing the architecture of a 21st Century American Aristocracy of Patriotic Icons with the power to eradicate all American Poverty within a generation or less.

Patriotic Icons of American Freedom, who while they live among us--shall live as 21st Century American Royalty, and on their death, live on as immortals, permanently memorialized and commemorated in the annals of American History--as the American Patriotic Elite who died American Heroes and took American poverty to the grave with them.  

In this episode, Socrates and I teach the meaning of critical thought and its central logical foundation:  "Know Thyself"

We explore the meaning of "Know Thyself," its application, and examples of critical thought in our quest to experience and re-experience true illumination.  This episode also includes a brief primer on critical thought through inductive and deductive reasoning which will be explored in Critical Thought Part 2:  Inductive Reasoning, and Critical Thought Part 3:  Deductive Reasoning

If you've seen combat service in the military, been a first responder, are vulnerable or experienced abuse in your home or community, experienced sexual abuse, abusive relationships, are food insecure, lost your job, or are being beaten by someone at home or when you were a kid, or if you've ever been shot at . . . there's a good chance you have it--even if you think you don't.

If you do, there's a pretty good chance you don't even know you have it--and you might even be convinced you don't.  That's the way I was, and I was wrong.

Record COVID casualties, quarantine, the Holiday Season, record unemployment, food insecurity, and for many, despair.  

I invite you into my mind and want you to see that if any of this applies to you, you are not alone.

And if you ever find yourself in that place, where everything just hurts, and you feel like you can only see as far as the room you’re in, and it feels like the only thing that will bring peace and serenity is if you just went away, don’t do it.  Think of your kids, or your family, or your friends, don’t check out before you give them a chance to say goodbye.  Just call or message somebody.  Message me.  You are special and you are not alone.

COVID-19 has, as of November 2020, claimed the lives of a quarter million Americans and left their families in terrible pain.   There isn't much I can do for the people who are gone, but for those who remain and those who have or may find themselves among the bereaved, I invite you into my mind.

This episode explores the connection between the human spirit and the most powerful celestial bodies and forces in the universe. 

And it's my hope that, in the 31:07 seconds we spend together--especially if you are feeling lost, I will leave you better than I found you and that the stars can lead you back home.

Certain immutable natural laws are constant throughout the universe; these laws govern every single aspect of our existence--and that is a fact.  There is either order, or there must be none.

So too, is there must be a physics to leadership.  It is the only reason a leadership action can achieve a repeatable, predictable leadership result.  If not for the Physics of Leadership, all leader action would yield a random leadership result.

If there is good leadership anywhere then the Physics of Leadership must exist everywhere.

The Physics of Leadership is the Leadership Theory of Everything.

I invite you to spend eight minutes and twenty-five seconds inside my mind.  

Consider me an "Objectivist," whose favorite hobby is observing the universe to share my perception.  I didn't create this podcast to advance an agenda or make a point.  My podcast is unconcerned with tedious politics or any of the social cages people build for themselves.

But I will share my observations all the same.

And, if you spend eight minutes and twenty-five seconds in my orbit, it will change you and affect your perception of the universe for the rest of your life.  I can promise you that.

-Brad