Is the United States now a Banana Republic? Generally, four qualifications apply: Profits Privatized and Debts Socialized Devalued Paper Currency Politicians Use Time in Office to Maximize Their Own Gains Corruption Remains Unchecked, Politicians Are Only for Show You tell me… [Wikipedia edited the four qualifications out of its previous version. Wonder what that’s about…]…
DetailsThings are moving fast this week, so here is a redux of the aggregate post a few days ago… Costs of War dot org gives us some disturbing numbers concerning the human and financial toll Afghanistan and Iraq have taken on the world. Everyone extolling the virtues of the two [main] wars should examine this…
DetailsThis week’s lecture of the week is a conjecturous little documentary called College Conspiracy, about the past, present, and future of college education. It has a good deal of assertions that are taken for granted (and plenty that I can find to disagree with), but the overall theme – that college education is becoming a…
DetailsOn the prerequisites of action:
See a previous post, “Low Taxes Create Jobs” Is a Fallacy, for a concrete example of how taking away qualification 3 will destroy incentives to human action.
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because…
DetailsK’naan – Take A Minute
would surely harbor the possibility of the rise of Zulu 9 in the future. The most dangerous place for a black human being to be in America is in the womb, and some estimates put the black population as having suffered a 40% decrease due to abortion. Enter The Gates of Hell:Trailer 2: This one…
DetailsAmericans have their own religion, propagated by the media and political class. The American virtues underlying these commandments are self-interest, consumption, and instant gratification. These commandments are not to be questioned, and doing so will grant you an immediate label of idiot or dissident fool… From the Altucher Confidential (slightly paraphrased): 1. Own a home.…
DetailsI would most definitely watch this show:
