Awakening Stories

Despite having the world’s largest proven oil reserves and once being among the richest countries, Venezuela’s leaders nationalized foreign oil firms and used high oil revenues to fund massive welfare, subsidies, and populist handouts instead of developing diversified industries and sound institutions. When oil prices fell, printing money led to hyperinflation, shortages, poverty, and mass emigration. True freedom is personal responsibility - not dependence on government wel

How did Mexico's drug heaven develop from the context of U.S. drug policies and geography? U.S. prohibitions on opium, alcohol, and marijuana pushed the black industry to Mexico, while Mexico's poverty and corruption fueled its growth. Since 1971, the U.S. "War on Drugs" has ended in failure, giving rise to countless smaller, more violent criminal gangs. Today, both countries suffer: Mexico is plagued by the chaos of drug cartels, while the U.S. faces mass drug addiction.

What enabled the Soviet Union to become a world industrial power in just ten years, and what ultimately led to the collapse of this superpower.

True redemption is to pick up the fragments from the ruins and piece together a more complete self than ever before. Letting it go is not losing to fate but winning back the territory of your soul. The real treasure is not in the deep sea or on an isolated island, but in the wise mind.

Today, many people have heard about the disasters that the planned economy has brought to human: the Great Famine in Ukraine, the Three Years of Difficulty in China, and the "Arduous March" in North Korea. However, the "planned thinking", which is the source of the "planned economy" cognition, has been everywhere.