“Homegoroshi: The Japanese technique of humiliating a person with exaggerated compliments.”
Globe & Mail September 25, 2000
In my latest Epoch Times column I ask everyone concerned with the Freedom Convoy, friends and foes alike, to stop acting as if they were their own worst enemy and a danger to the public.
“There’s this psychoanalytic adage: If you don’t understand the motivation, look at the consequences and infer the motivation.”
Jordan Peterson in a podcast with Michael Shellenberger (citing the example of Hitler wreaking murderous havoc then committing suicide).
“Reach for the stars even if you have to stand on a cactus.”
Susan Longacre in “Quotable Quotes” in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition March 2006
“That is what makes life at once so splendid and so strange. We are in the wrong world. When I thought that was the right town, it bored me; when I knew it was wrong, I was happy. So the false optimism, the modern happiness, tires us because it tells us we fit into this world. The true happiness is that we don’t fit. We come from somewhere else. We have lost our way.”
G.K. Chesterton in “The Ballad of a Strange Town” in Tremendous Trifles, quoted by Joseph Grabowski in Gilbert: The Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 25 #11 (9-10/21)
“It wasn’t clear whether this was obvious, false, or possibly both.”
Peter Foster in National Post November 19, 1999 [specifically regarding Peter Drucker and entering a “knowledge society” but it applies amazingly widely].
In my latest Loonie Politics column I say there’s a silver lining to people noticing thanks to the pandemic that the Charter doesn’t protect us from overbearing government … but only if we decide to fix the problem, and the Constitution.
“researchers who study emotion regulation – how we cope, or fail to cope, with the daily swirl of feelings – are discovering that many anxious people are bound and determined (though not always consciously) to cultivate anxiety.”
A Newsweek item quoted in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail February 11, 2011