Our purposes with this site are personal as well as public, the public encompassing both professional and societal.
Please pardon the mess as we rebuild this site; feel free to prepare complaints for when we've managed to get that part working.
Look carefully at the leading photograph. Note the sense provided by the expanse of water, the dwarfed but central single figure of the statue near waters' edge, against a backdrop of the Capitol. Now think of the song "Don Quixote", the warrior, the preacher.
The objectives here are generally for independent action, by individuals rather than groups. No organization per se, no leaders, no duties or obligations beyond or more specific than those of citizenship within The Great Experiment.
Do the reading. Think a bit. Perhaps do some independent research; further reading, additional thinking. It has been said that, particularly in a society similar to this one, government becomes the government deserved. Take the time and energy to take action, in accord with the dictates of conscience. Too often in this society -- sometimes for good reason but more often with poor excuse if any -- too many leave the obligations of citizenship, the participation part of a participatory democratic republic, to "the other guy", resulting in too little of what needs done being done at all, let alone well.
The real coinage of a society, its real "wealth", has two sides: Responsibility and Freedom. The more one has of the one, the more of the other; the less one has of one side, the less of the other.
Every individual in The United States of America has the opportunity to, in this sense at least, be very rich and to enrich others as well...if that is the path they choose to take. That is key to The Great Experiment [and perhaps why so many feel so much of that is at terrible risk, on the verge of being lost]. Take action: do it now.
Some other things here are not quite what you may have come to expect on a website. For the time being, despite everything here being copyrighted material, it is provided on this site at no charge; we are not selling anything [yet]; we are not pretending to “give” anything “free” when it would really be in exchange for your email address…which marketers generally consider a most valuable thing.
In the same vein as not using a ruse to generate an email list for marketing, we will not entertain [for the foreseeable future] any advertising [other than what the host requires of us: also, we have no control over others (such as Google or the host, either of which may be capturing emails for their own purposes)].
We would prefer to avoid email lists entirely but business today makes some use almost mandatory. From time to time and then only with clear notice, we may provide for an opt-in list for a specific purpose and single use, such as for [one] notification of an approaching book release: we certainly want you to buy the book, but on the basis of your interest in the material rather than in response to endless daily pitches in your email. We will try to provide serious value, simply because we want you to come back: we’re not going to “retire comfortably” on a single purchase or even on thousands of purchases of a single item, so we have to keep providing additional value rather than what you may have seen too often [we know we have seen it], a repackaging of what has already been purchased. We want you to act relatively independently and not on hype; we want your trust and faith. We do not want to act like a “carny barker” or to engage in “marketing practices” of pressuring with ploys like “the price will go up (soon)” [arbitrarily: “this offer expires when the countdown timer reaches zero”]. Our products may be offered in a variety of formats, and, as more products are released, possibly in a package with other products of ours, but as a convenience. But we won’t “upsell”; we will not play the “add this to your cart” game; we will not engage in the too-common practice of selling a higher priced model of what is virtually the same item [repeatedly].
Even our blog may be a bit different. The most recent will be on its own page. Entries for the last week will be available in chronological order [the way most people read]. After that, entries are to be archived, again, in chronological order. We intend to arrange a lot of internal linking for the convenience of the reader, so you can start where you choose, stop but easily find your place on return, and readily find related material you want [and that we have].
Exercise integrity, and encourage others to do so: Support each other, and encourage others to do so;
Educate ourselves, and encourage others to do so; Use the term Usann, and encourage others to do so;
Resist tyranny, and encourage others to do so; Exercise authority over officials, and encourage others to do so;
And take the country back, one day, one moment, at a time.
Our goal is to follow the above plan in our lives and our business, thus being a part of returning our country, The United States of America, to the Republic it was envisioned and designed to be and The Great Experiment -- the Rule of Law -- brought to the world by the Founding Fathers.
We ask readers -- and others -- consider doing likewise.