Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT

Stories that reside in your heart offering a necessary dose of revelation & inspiration. #SpeculativeFiction #RomanticSuspense #SciFiThriller #TheWobbleIsComing

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

When the universe sends you a family you never knew existed…Some truths refuse to stay buried.

Decoupled: Counterfeit to Coherence
Trilogy 1: The Given
Vignette II – Syndicates of the Self-Blind

#DecoupledSeries #SpeculativeThriller

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

#tumbleweedchronicle #decoupledseries #thewobbleiscoming #BeAMan #virtue #guardini

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

#decoupledbook #thewobbleiscoming #tumbleweedchronicle photo credit ~V

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

#tumbleweedchronicle

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

Starting something new today… here’s an honest truth I realized in the desert a few years ago.
#tumbleweedchronicle

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

I just spent a long conversation with Grok unpacking The Shifting Wall, and it kept circling back to something powerful.We traced how French Theory gave us the tools for endless deconstruction — arbitrary signs, linguistic three-card monte, structures treated as inherently oppressive. Brilliant at diagnosis, often weak at building anything durable afterward.Then we landed on a real antidote:The Catholic understanding of grace, love, and redemption offers something rare: a vision that is structurally simple yet infinitely deep. It acknowledges structures of sin honestly — but sees them not as autonomous evil systems, but as the crystallized consequences of countless personal failures to will the good of the other.Most ideologies optimize for strength or power (and therefore bake in entropy). This one optimizes for durability — the quiet ability to survive critique, corruption, persecution, and fashion while still producing saints, communities, and hope across 2,000 https://t.co/A20hthvgk2 doesn’t deny the Shifting Wall. It simply refuses to let deconstruction have the last word. Redemption does.Really enjoyed your manifesto. The “age of builders” needs exactly this kind of grounded, anti-fragile thinking. Keep going.

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

@abmarkman That is one good loooookin' car!!!!

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

@DaleWinger @RonDeSantis @grok So…you’re saying the Cardinals take this one for sure!!

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

@Sullyava1979 @RonDeSantis True!

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

This structural insight is vital knowledge and an informed pathway for the rest of us in the entrepreneurial West to chart a better future - "France has a structural problem. It’s not a problem of talent — we have plenty. It’s not a problem of capital — it exists. It’s a problem of philosophy. The French system rests on an implicit belief, deeply ingrained in its institutions: wealth is suspicious, business is guilty until proven innocent, and the State knows better than you what is good for you."

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Louise Perry made a sharp observation: many feminists tried to replace the husband with the state.

In her interview with John Anderson, she pointed out that while the state can provide money and daycare, what most women actually want is to raise their children with the support of committed adults, not institutions.

After reviewing history, she concludes that monogamous marriage, despite its imperfections, has consistently produced the best outcomes for mothers and children. Every major experiment with communal living or fully socialized families has ended with worse results.

Decades of research show children raised by married biological parents have significantly better outcomes across the board, lower rates of poverty, higher educational attainment, better mental and physical health, and lower involvement in crime.

These advantages hold even after controlling for income and education. Alternative family structures and state-heavy models have repeatedly shown higher instability and poorer long-term results for kids.

With marriage rates declining and child mental health struggling, we need to be honest about which systems actually support families best instead of clinging to nice-sounding theories that keep failing.

Do you think stable monogamous marriage is still the best system we have for raising kids, or do you see better alternatives?

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

Always wise!

[Teddy - PolyBackTest.com @Bitcoin_Teddy]

Javier Milei: “I thought being on the left was a mental problem. The empirical evidence is so overwhelming that it never worked anywhere, and they refused to accept it.”

“But what I discovered is that being on the left is a disease of the soul. The left is built on envy, hatred, resentment, and unequal treatment under the law. They are very violent, and since they have no way or arguments to answer, they go for physical violence.”

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

Harvard professor Arthur Brooks explains how data shows that the unhappiest and most mentally ill people are mostly on the political left while the happiest are on the right.

Liberal women 18-30 have a 60% chance of being diagnosed mentally ill. Discuss.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Incentives explain outcomes.

Milton Friedman observed that you cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.

America’s earlier waves of immigration succeeded so well because, prior to 1914, the country maintained open borders without a welfare system.

Immigrants arrived to work, support themselves and their families, and build new lives.
Those who couldn’t succeed typically returned home.

This environment naturally selected for self-reliant individuals and fueled tremendous economic growth.

In contrast, today’s expansive welfare state, offering healthcare, education, housing assistance, and cash transfers, fundamentally alters the incentives.

When immigrants, whether legal or illegal, can immediately access these benefits, it becomes possible for some to arrive and function as net fiscal drains rather than contributors.

Friedman therefore opposed the unsustainable pairing of open borders with generous entitlements.

So it’s not paradoxical why one would support pre-1914 immigration but oppose its later version.
They are very different phenomena.

Either can work on its own, but together they generate higher taxes, social friction, and long-term strain.

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

@Rothmus True!

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

@DavidWemhoff @CatholicArena Well, this one sure throws me for a loop. This comment lacks no rational sense...the Pope a Russian asset...I don't think so.

[Fred L. Shinn, MS, PT @FredShinn]

@CatholicArena Spot on!

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

🚨 Pope Leo XIV has delivered a hard hitting speech to EU leaders, calling out the 'rejection of the Christian inspiration of the founding fathers of the EU'

He also said that Europe is facing 'DRASTIC STERILITY' because 'too many have been deprived of the right to be born' and 'because there has been a failure to pass on the material and cultural tools that young people need to face the future'

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

It's the 20th Anniversary of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth."

NONE of his scary predictions have come true.

Mt. Kilimanjaro still has snow and Glacier National Park still has glaciers.

Here's why we are not doomed: