3. Quality Time Offline: Carve out quality time in your day when you are completely unplugged from radio, television, Internet, MP3 player, smart phone, etc. Try doing this for at least one hour in the morning and three hours before you go to sleep. If you are unable to stay away from technology for this … Read more
With computers, robots and other digital technologies acquiring basic tasks and even more advanced skills at an extraordinary rate, what is the future of the labor market? For more than a century, automation has increasingly replaced a portion of the labor market as technology advances with robotic automation performing more and more blue-collar jobs. The … Read more
CHANDLER, AZ (April 2014) – Author John Horvat II reached another exciting milestone with 20,000 copies of his first indie-published book, Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where We’ve Been, How We Got Here, and Where We Need to Go, now in the hands of eager readers. “There are books … Read more
2. The shoe box solution: Share old items and keepsakes with family members, especially with your children. These are things handed down from your ancestors, clippings from historic events that shaped their lives or even such things as a baptismal certificate or your parent’s wedding photos. Scrap booking is very popular because it offers meaningful … Read more
“Until we bring the rule of law back into business and instill expectations of strong ethical and moral behavior by business (as corporations and individuals leaders) our economy and country will suffer. I hope this book will provide a framework on how business success, profit, and benefit to society can be brought into a sustainable … Read more
World copper prices are tumbling again and fingers are pointing at China’s ailing financial system. China is sitting upon huge stockpiles of copper that it uses not as a commodity but a financial instrument. This copper scheme that has seen price drop forty to fifty cents a pound since January is a good example of … Read more
Though often cited as inventing the concept of planned obsolescence, American industrial designer Brooks Stevens actually only popularized the term. The expression is generally understood to mean the practice of artificially shortening product lifecycle with the intention of getting people to buy new replacement products sooner. A product with a limited useful life soon becomes … Read more
Reasons Why Obamacare Must be Opposed from a Return to Order Perspective Of all the reasons to oppose the Affordable Care Act, popularly labeled Obamacare, one stands out: the soulless nature of the law. It is ironic that a system that claims to be so humane in its intention would be so inhuman in its … Read more
by Roark Mitzell. I find a certain reckless spirit inside our modern economy in which it seems everyone wants to throw off legitimate restraints and gratify disordered passions – and do so quickly. I am not alone in my assessment. In his book, Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society—Where … Read more
The idea of craftsmanship has long languished as the standard of quantity has prevailed. Products are more often judged by how many can be produced in a given time rather than the quality of the product and the excellence of the skills employed. Sociologist Richard Weaver writes that it was the concept of perfect execution … Read more
