Victory Manual

アメリカ合衆国は民主主義の国のように見えるけど、実はそうではない。
民主主義であるのなら国会は必要ではないであろう。建国者は共和国のアメリカ合衆国を作った。当時、わざわざ民主主義として建国しなかった。その理由はほとんどの国民がうまく制御できないからである。
そのため国会を作りました。建国者が、憲法に義務のある国会議員が国を統制するシステムを決定した。現在のアメリカ合衆国が民主主義のために戦争を起こしているというが、実は我が国でも民主主義とのシステムを使っていないので、それは皮肉ではないか。
国民を１００％統制できているとすれば、それは無政府状態ということではないか。

This is a thought that just occured to me, but it seems that an increase in crime has a direct correlation with materialism in society. People want stuff, and to get stuff you need cash.
With an increasingly short attention span, thanks to the influence of things like music videos where any given scene is [...]

Curiosity lead me to hunt down some numbers for my personal interest in mining statistics.
Considering a liberal estimate of 14 million Jews world-wide, and a world population of 6,707,035,007 as of July 1st, 2008, that means the world is only .2% Jewish. Out of the 574 Nobel Prize Laureates, 160 are Jews, meaning that [...]

Let me tell you a little bit about what made Kublai Kahn such an impressive leader, even by our modern standards.
Kublai Kahn united China, in spite of being a foreigner, and despite that his own country was in civil unrest at the time. Furthermore, he was tolerant of the Chinese culture and did not [...]

When someone says “comic book” in English, I’m guessing most people, like me, think of Superman, Spiderman, Batman, X-Men, or some other super-hero (powerful-sounding-word+man) based storyline. The Japanese version of comics (manga) are completely different, though.
I found a compact series called 「マンガ、日本の歴史がわかる本」 (Which is hard to translate as it comes out as something like [...]

My wife brought up an interesting point while we were talking about nationalism in Asia. I like hearing her take on things as she’s a Korean living in Japan studying alongside Chinese. She feels that, based on China’s long history of power in Asia, many Chinese today still consider Korea and Japan as [...]

If there’s anything significant about the 502nd one, it’s that it’s only 4 years after the 501st, which in turn was 4 years after the 500th. You may remember the 500th leap year as significant, because it’s the year we evaded doomsday brought on by computers that couldn’t perform the same function that my [...]

It’s best to forgive, but never forget.
That’s, perhaps, one of the best traits of the culture I was raised in - Our stubborn insistance on remembering the past, but always expressing gratitude for our current lot in life.
(Note: “The culture I was raised in,” does not refer to the U.S.)

I don’t like the term “real life” used in the sense of “life spent in the physical presence of people as opposed to online”, because life spent at home online is just as “real” as life spent at the movies, at a desk on a conference call, or simply in front of the television.
What people [...]

Often, I’ll hear the phrase, “People hate change,” or, “Change is scary.” Change isn’t scary, it’s just unsettling. ‘Scary’ and ‘unsettling’ should not be confused.
Humans are animals. That isn’t a bad thing at all. It’s just the way it is. Studying psychology, you can really get a sense of the [...]