Melançon Enterprises • a multidivision multinational since 1980

Chutzpah is 95% of life. Or at least business.

To those in IRC last night, I really wasn't insane

Lord, give me the courage to change what I can, the wisdom to accept that which I cannot change, and the heavy artillery to make up the difference.

It's much easier to be generous when you have money.

I hold these half-truths to be semi-evident...

Stupidity is a state of mind.

Credentials (PhD etc.) is the rentier system applied to intellectual terrain. It kills innovation.

I have come to the end of my days of fast cars and fast women. Will you slow down!

In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them.

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.