Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
The narrative we write tells much about ourselves. That is quite an obvious statement. What is not obvious, however, is the discretion we apply, the self-restraint we reveal, and the manifested fences we install through invisible means of editing and erasing. For Federal employees who are preparing a Federal or USPS Disability Retirement application, […]
Is there any doubt? Does the anthropological perspective favor, by fiat of discourse in fatalism, determinism and Darwinian survival instincts, a “positive” attitude of idealized love, charity, human compassion and empathetic piety? Are we born with such biological dreaminess, only to have it tested, subverted, undermined and callously tortured out of us the remaining days of our lives? When does reality sink in, that this societal artifice that permeates like the opiate-based perfume that subdues and subjugates, performs its miracle of infamy by disseminating soft and cuddly lies, while the wolves and other predators knew all along […]
Life is a mystery, and individual lives a puzzle untold. It is the calluses that we develop throughout our lives that diminish our individual and collective curiosity to get to know the “other”. We are born with a teleological intellect striving to unravel and unmask the depths of human essence; but modernity, technology and the singular focus of tangents often involving prurient asides distract and envelop with unwavering obsessions, but it has gotten worse: no, not in any violent manner or upheaval of historical significance; rather, the electronic means of texting, emailing, Facebook-ing and other such means […]
That is what people want to do, and in the aggregate, the world around. In engagements with others, there is a limited and quantifiable extent of patience. It is tantamount to that ‘arc of flight’ that every animal possesses – as long as you remain outside of that safe-zone, you will be a suspicious entity perceived by watchful caution; […]