VIRGINIA TENOR +
  • Home
  • Choir is Life
  • BLOG
  • VatenorArchive
  • About
  • Home
  • Choir is Life
  • BLOG
  • VatenorArchive
  • About

Serious Writing on Serious Things :mostly
This Tenor sings uncensored notes.

Medicine and morality

3/4/2022

0 Comments

 
Assigning a moral value to public health policy is a particular insidious development of the last 2 years.  It is now common place and must be countered. 

  1. it is ridiculously unscientific and rooted in a one size fits all, central planning world view
  2. it creates a disincentive to actually comply with reporting and metrics and more practically, preventative care and full disclosure to the medical “powers that be”  
  3. it directly contravenes the sacrosanct relationship between a doctor and patient, subjecting patients to discrimination and public ridicule by mob/cancel mentality.  
  4. It diminishes public trust in medical institutions at every level, but particularly at the federal and global level.   
  5. it allows “government” and authority to use medical decisions to ENFORCE lifestyle as a precedent.  Compliance as a social credit.  
In reality, this is the beginning of the end of freedom?  Is this how democracy dies?
0 Comments

Traps

4/19/2021

0 Comments

 
The same mentality that drives a victimization culture also empowers the “protected class”perspective of so many who feel morally and even intellectually superior because of their role. Both seek attention and reparations and entitlements.

It is hard to come to grips that we are all equal and results are based on luck, advantages, and good decisions most of all. People are equal. Ideas are not. Results are not the same and life is not fair. It never was and never will be. Educate yourself. Love your life. Do your job. Be. Love. Serve. Repeat. Expecting reverence is a deadly trap.
0 Comments

Sincerely happy for y’all

11/8/2020

0 Comments

 
I am sincerely happy that so many friends are encouraged by the words of PresElect Biden. Rhetoric is a powerful tool. Practical progress in change management policy is a very complex process and it certainly begins with awareness and desire.

The arc of my experience has shown me that desire must be followed with knowledge and ability at scale and duration. Results are measured and reinforced. This is the way.

The danger zone in governance is the addiction to power and the reliance on power to achieve. The power approach does not past the test.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” —C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics (1970)
0 Comments

How to assess integrity, competency, and faith.

10/27/2020

0 Comments

 
Picture
0 Comments

Are you right?

10/14/2020

0 Comments

 
I rarely think that people are dumb or morally corrupt. I often think that they are wrong. There is a big difference.

Who is right is revealed over time with results at scale and duration. It is normal to be wrong, but it is dumb to know it and continue repeating the same decisions over and over and over.

​People are equal, but ideas and decisions are NOT. 
0 Comments

Mask mania and ME

10/3/2020

0 Comments

 
NOONE with a mask or without a mask is responsible for you and your behavior. This idea that a person who is living is now responsible for you is worthy of ridicule. I don’t get to judge what you eat, where you go, what you touch, who you socialize with, or why you do those things.

If you want to stay safe, protect yourself. We must Stop assigning deadly intent to choices. It is foolish and destructive. I decide for me, not for you.
Picture
0 Comments

Hate is easy.

9/22/2020

0 Comments

 
It is easy to find people and things to hate. It is even easier when our world view is based on victimization and comparison. This hatred often flows into violence and oppression.
Newsflash: the solution is NEVER more hate. Violence is a symptom of the hatred not a solution.

Loving and serving in a world based on individual accountability, honor, and respect is not a utopian dream. It is achievable here and now. Every day is an opportunity. Every person is a specific, beloved, first born child of Christ. When we start acting like it, things change.
0 Comments
    Picture

    VATENOR

    Intersection of principles and practices...

    Categories

    All
    2nd Amendment
    Artistry
    Authority
    Autocracy
    BLM
    ByTheNumbers
    Career
    Change Management
    ChoirIsLife
    Church
    Civil Society
    Collectivism
    Covid
    Creativity
    Education
    Election
    Faith
    Family
    Fear
    Filters
    Free Speech
    GOP
    Government
    JustSing
    Media
    Morality
    Musing
    Personal
    Philosophy
    Photos
    Politics
    Power
    Protest
    RuleOfLaw
    Social Media
    Strategy
    Technology
    Testimony
    Theology
    Uniformity
    Unity
    Virtue
    WeightLoss

    Archives

    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    August 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly