Read the Express-News letters to the editor for March 5.
sb /Courtesy photoThe insightful article was good. I’d like to have read that the practice of not holding the best employees back is to be admired. In my 30 years in business, keeping a succession bench and targeting outside candidates for future openings resulted in many successful years in business.Ruben ZamoraIn 1983, Dr. M. Scott Peck wrote a book called “People of the Lie.” He presented insights of psychiatry combined with those of religion.
We are now observing a very powerful political leader, Vladimir Putin, who clearly uses lying as a method to confuse, intimidate and ultimately conquer others. He is bold and blatant, saying the opposite of what is clear to our eyes and ears. The most obvious lie is that he is not invading Ukraine but merely entering as a peacekeeper. Peacekeepers do not bomb apartment buildings and kindergartens. Peacekeepers do not kill innocent civilians.
We citizens are savvy enough to see through these lies. We know an invasion when we see one, and it is stimulating us to remember comparable actions taken before in our lifetime. We see through the lies now. People all over the world are waking up to their own power — the power to resist evil and face it head-on.I agree with Daniel and Claire Braaten that Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick needs an educational course in critical thinking to curb his feverish political-moral ideology.
I would prescribe the following literary medicine: Start with 3 teaspoons of Plato’s “The Trial of Socrates” as an antidote to the poisoning of the minds of our next generation. Follow with 2 tablespoons of Dostoevsky’s “The Grand Inquisitor” from “The Brothers Karamazov” to lower the temperature of libraries banning books. Ending with one huge bottle of George Orwell’s “1984” to clear the congestion of a passive and unquestioning population.
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