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AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, THE LAW OF CIVILIZATION AND DECAY So a functioning middle class is necessary for the maintenance of a stable economic and social order. I read a bit of a Roman history recently and in early Rome everyone was at a similar level, belief in the Gods, hard work, a society of hardworking peasants, merchants, etc. with common goals for the common good. KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the letter where Kurt gives some advice to those living in 1988. The sort of leaders we need now are not those who promise ultimate victory over Nature through HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION Several times on this blog I have mentioned that Free Will is largely an illusion, but I have never delved deeply into the subject. I intend to rectify that situation today. What is Free Will? the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion There are two levels to which Free Will applies, the individual and the collective (society DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth.REMIND ME AGAIN
Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is greatly exercised by the failures of the economics profession. He believes that economists have performed a Great Disservice To Mankind (see below). He lays out his concerns in What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer? Can economics be morally centered? EXAGGERATED CLAIMS ABOUT OVER-FISHING OF THE OCEANS I was investigating peak wild-caught fish recently when I stumbled across Our Oceans Can't Survive Fishing Madness by Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line and Blinkers, an in-depth look at fishing off New Zealand. I was particularly struck by this passage. Scientists disagree over the size of the overfishing problem. Getting reliable catch data is hard enough, data on fish DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, THE LAW OF CIVILIZATION AND DECAY So a functioning middle class is necessary for the maintenance of a stable economic and social order. I read a bit of a Roman history recently and in early Rome everyone was at a similar level, belief in the Gods, hard work, a society of hardworking peasants, merchants, etc. with common goals for the common good. KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the letter where Kurt gives some advice to those living in 1988. The sort of leaders we need now are not those who promise ultimate victory over Nature through HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION Several times on this blog I have mentioned that Free Will is largely an illusion, but I have never delved deeply into the subject. I intend to rectify that situation today. What is Free Will? the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion There are two levels to which Free Will applies, the individual and the collective (society DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth.REMIND ME AGAIN
Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is greatly exercised by the failures of the economics profession. He believes that economists have performed a Great Disservice To Mankind (see below). He lays out his concerns in What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer? Can economics be morally centered? EXAGGERATED CLAIMS ABOUT OVER-FISHING OF THE OCEANS I was investigating peak wild-caught fish recently when I stumbled across Our Oceans Can't Survive Fishing Madness by Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line and Blinkers, an in-depth look at fishing off New Zealand. I was particularly struck by this passage. Scientists disagree over the size of the overfishing problem. Getting reliable catch data is hard enough, data on fish DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
THE LAW OF CIVILIZATION AND DECAY So a functioning middle class is necessary for the maintenance of a stable economic and social order. I read a bit of a Roman history recently and in early Rome everyone was at a similar level, belief in the Gods, hard work, a society of hardworking peasants, merchants, etc. with common goals for the common good. THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You IT'S A BIG CLUB AND YOU AIN'T IN IT Well, we're back to George Carlin again. His prescient observations have withstood the test of time (video at the end). That "big club" you ain't in consists of the elites who own and run this country. Ever since right-wing populist Donald Trump got elected through the electoral college, those elites have waged constant war on Trump andthe Truth.
THE TRIUMPH OF HOPE OVER EXPERIENCE Commenting on second marriages, Samuel Johnson, who is quoted by his biographer James Boswell in 1791, called them the "triumph of hope over experience." It doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone since that this wonderful phrase expresses a fundamental insight into the human condition. A recent article by James Lind reminds us of why thisis true.
THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER SPECIES In my recent post The Argument From Ignorance, speaking of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, I wrote the following— Kolbert is too polite to say it, but the book is not "a call to action" because there are no collective actions that would fix the mass extinction problem. Humans would have to be something other than they are. And if we were a different species, there probably wouldn't THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION Several times on this blog I have mentioned that Free Will is largely an illusion, but I have never delved deeply into the subject. I intend to rectify that situation today. What is Free Will? the power of acting without the constraint of necessity or fate; the ability to act at one’s own discretion There are two levels to which Free Will applies, the individual and the collective (society WEALTH AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION ARE INSEPARABLE Today we will briefly explore the work of atmospheric sciences researcher Tim Garrett. I first wrote about his work in my study Economic Growth And Climate Change — No Way Out? I concluded that there is no way out —you can't have economic growth and mitigate anthropogenic climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. If we make reasonable assumptions about the future, you can do one or the ARE HUMANS A PLAGUE ON THE EARTH? Having abandoned his lifelong quest to win friends and influence people, 86-year-old David Attenborough told the The Independent (UK) that humans are a plague on the Earth. TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have become a “plague on the Earth”. The 86-year-old broadcaster said the negative effects of climate change and population growth would be seen in the DOES A BEAR SHIT IN THE WOODS? When you're born into this world, you are given a ticket to the Freak Show, and when you are born in America, you get a front row seat — George Carlin The point of today's post is simple, probably deceptively so. Steve Hargreaves of CNN Money is asking Are big banks driving up commodity prices? OK, I can hear some of you laughing. Wipe that smirk off your face! — this is not a laughing DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, THE LAW OF CIVILIZATION AND DECAY In fact, it was the inevitable wealth inequality brought about by endless growth which "must bring progress to a halt"—. This truth involves both a menace and a promise. It shows that the evils arising from the unjust and unequal distribution of wealth, which are becoming more and more apparent asmodern
KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To The Future. In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth. THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER SPECIES In my recent post The Argument From Ignorance, speaking of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, I wrote the following— Kolbert is too polite to say it, but the book is not "a call to action" because there are no collective actions that would fix the mass extinction problem. Humans would have to be something other than they are. And if we were a different species, there probably wouldn't HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. IS THERE INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE? If there is no intelligent (wise, rational, compassionate) life on Earth, we can not at present answer the title question affirmatively. If Homo sapiens is merely another extinct (or fast-fading) species a thousand years from now, an outcome which is looking more and more likely, then humankind's positive view of itself and its glorious future— The Human Conceit —becomes yet another HOW F**KED UP IS HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES It is very hard to answer the question posed in the title of this post. No matter how fucked up you think health care in the United States is, it is even more fucked up than that. In this regard, it's a lot like the size of the observable Universe. No matter how mindbogglingly large you think it is, the Universe is even bigger thanyou imagine.
DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, THE LAW OF CIVILIZATION AND DECAY In fact, it was the inevitable wealth inequality brought about by endless growth which "must bring progress to a halt"—. This truth involves both a menace and a promise. It shows that the evils arising from the unjust and unequal distribution of wealth, which are becoming more and more apparent asmodern
KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To The Future. In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth. THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER SPECIES In my recent post The Argument From Ignorance, speaking of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, I wrote the following— Kolbert is too polite to say it, but the book is not "a call to action" because there are no collective actions that would fix the mass extinction problem. Humans would have to be something other than they are. And if we were a different species, there probably wouldn't HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. IS THERE INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE? If there is no intelligent (wise, rational, compassionate) life on Earth, we can not at present answer the title question affirmatively. If Homo sapiens is merely another extinct (or fast-fading) species a thousand years from now, an outcome which is looking more and more likely, then humankind's positive view of itself and its glorious future— The Human Conceit —becomes yet another HOW F**KED UP IS HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES It is very hard to answer the question posed in the title of this post. No matter how fucked up you think health care in the United States is, it is even more fucked up than that. In this regard, it's a lot like the size of the observable Universe. No matter how mindbogglingly large you think it is, the Universe is even bigger thanyou imagine.
THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. IT'S A BIG CLUB AND YOU AIN'T IN IT Well, we're back to George Carlin again. His prescient observations have withstood the test of time (video at the end). That "big club" you ain't in consists of the elites who own and run this country. Ever since right-wing populist Donald Trump got elected through the electoral college, those elites have waged constant war on Trump andthe Truth.
WHAT MAKES THE UNITED STATES SPECIAL? A while back I came across an article called Most Welfare Dollars Don’t Go Directly To Poor People Anymore (fivethiryeight, August 25, 2016). Let's cut to the chase. The result has been a dramatic shift of resources away from cash assistance and toward spending on other programs. In 1998, nearly 60 percent of welfare spending was on cash benefits AMERICA'S NEW GILDED AGE There's a "new" kind of class warfare being waged in in the United States, but you have to look very closely to find it. Perhaps "warfare" is the wrong word, for a war must have two sides in active opposition to each other, whereas this time around we only have two sides. This "warfare" is creating conditions that more and more resemble those of the late 19th century when America did not yet IS THERE INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE? If there is no intelligent (wise, rational, compassionate) life on Earth, we can not at present answer the title question affirmatively. If Homo sapiens is merely another extinct (or fast-fading) species a thousand years from now, an outcome which is looking more and more likely, then humankind's positive view of itself and its glorious future— The Human Conceit —becomes yet another THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION In traditional societies, which are historically vestigial and almost invariably politically repressive, the will of the society is the will of the leader or small group (oligarchy) which runs it. In this case, the Free Will argument reverts back to the case of the individual leader (s), who are strangers to themselves in the sense justdiscussed.
ECONOMICS AS A MORAL SCIENCE? This is part two of a three-part series on moral preferences, social groups and economics. It comes to about 13 printed pages — Dave On questions of morality, contemporary economics stands mute. Writing about Adam Smith in the aftermath of the financial meltdown of 2008, Harvard's Amartya Sen put it bluntly— The nature of the present economic crisis illustrates very clearly the need for ARE HUMANS A PLAGUE ON THE EARTH? Having abandoned his lifelong quest to win friends and influence people, 86-year-old David Attenborough told the The Independent (UK) that humans are a plague on the Earth. TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have become a “plague on the Earth”. The 86-year-old broadcaster said the negative effects of climate change and population growth would be seen in the WE DON'T SEE SENTIENT EXTRATERRESTRIALS BECAUSE THEY DON'T Folds don't help. In theory, there is an easy answer to the energy problem: create lots of folds in the cell membrane to increase its surface area, which in turn will increase the amount of energy the membrane can produce. Indeed, many bacteria have such folds. But thisleads to
DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To The Future. In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth. HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION In traditional societies, which are historically vestigial and almost invariably politically repressive, the will of the society is the will of the leader or small group (oligarchy) which runs it. In this case, the Free Will argument reverts back to the case of the individual leader (s), who are strangers to themselves in the sense justdiscussed.
IS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM UNIQUE OR RARE? So our solar system is, in some sense, a bit of a freak and not the most typical kind of system that Nature cooks up". The international team made the discovery using a new method that, they say, can detect signals half the size previously thought possible. "We pioneered new data modeling techniques by adding artificial signals to the data andREMIND ME AGAIN
Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is greatly exercised by the failures of the economics profession. He believes that economists have performed a Great Disservice To Mankind (see below). He lays out his concerns in What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer? Can economics be morally centered? DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To The Future. In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth. HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION In traditional societies, which are historically vestigial and almost invariably politically repressive, the will of the society is the will of the leader or small group (oligarchy) which runs it. In this case, the Free Will argument reverts back to the case of the individual leader (s), who are strangers to themselves in the sense justdiscussed.
IS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM UNIQUE OR RARE? So our solar system is, in some sense, a bit of a freak and not the most typical kind of system that Nature cooks up". The international team made the discovery using a new method that, they say, can detect signals half the size previously thought possible. "We pioneered new data modeling techniques by adding artificial signals to the data andREMIND ME AGAIN
Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is greatly exercised by the failures of the economics profession. He believes that economists have performed a Great Disservice To Mankind (see below). He lays out his concerns in What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer? Can economics be morally centered? HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION In traditional societies, which are historically vestigial and almost invariably politically repressive, the will of the society is the will of the leader or small group (oligarchy) which runs it. In this case, the Free Will argument reverts back to the case of the individual leader (s), who are strangers to themselves in the sense justdiscussed.
THE LAW OF CIVILIZATION AND DECAY In fact, it was the inevitable wealth inequality brought about by endless growth which "must bring progress to a halt"—. This truth involves both a menace and a promise. It shows that the evils arising from the unjust and unequal distribution of wealth, which are becoming more and more apparent asmodern
IT'S A BIG CLUB AND YOU AIN'T IN IT Well, we're back to George Carlin again. His prescient observations have withstood the test of time (video at the end). That "big club" you ain't in consists of the elites who own and run this country. Ever since right-wing populist Donald Trump got elected through the electoral college, those elites have waged constant war on Trump andthe Truth.
THE CROOKED TIMBER OF HUMANITY So, I finally stumbled across Isaiah Berlin, The Crooked Timber of Humanity, Chapter 1 of which ‘The Decline of Utopian Ideas in the West’ ends as follows— a liberal sermon which recommends machinery designed to prevent people from doing each other too much harm, giving each human group sufficient room to realise its own idiosyncratic, unique, particular ends without too much WHAT MAKES THE UNITED STATES SPECIAL? A while back I came across an article called Most Welfare Dollars Don’t Go Directly To Poor People Anymore (fivethiryeight, August 25, 2016). Let's cut to the chase. The result has been a dramatic shift of resources away from cash assistance and toward spending on other programs. In 1998, nearly 60 percent of welfare spending was on cash benefits THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER SPECIES In my recent post The Argument From Ignorance, speaking of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, I wrote the following— Kolbert is too polite to say it, but the book is not "a call to action" because there are no collective actions that would fix the mass extinction problem. Humans would have to be something other than they are. And if we were a different species, there probably wouldn't IS OUR SOLAR SYSTEM UNIQUE OR RARE? So our solar system is, in some sense, a bit of a freak and not the most typical kind of system that Nature cooks up". The international team made the discovery using a new method that, they say, can detect signals half the size previously thought possible. "We pioneered new data modeling techniques by adding artificial signals to the data and WEALTH AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION ARE INSEPARABLE The growth rate 1.87% for energy consumption is an average for the period 1970-2006. The average growth rate for the total accumulated wealth was 1.82% over that period. Note that this an empirical result and thus stands outside any particular theory or framework, although it falls out of Garrett's hypothesis (thermodynamic model) that some ARE HUMANS A PLAGUE ON THE EARTH? Having abandoned his lifelong quest to win friends and influence people, 86-year-old David Attenborough told the The Independent (UK) that humans are a plague on the Earth. TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have become a “plague on the Earth”. The 86-year-old broadcaster said the negative effects of climate change and population growth would be seen in the DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To The Future. In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth.REMIND ME AGAIN
Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is greatly exercised by the failures of the economics profession. He believes that economists have performed a Great Disservice To Mankind (see below). He lays out his concerns in What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer? Can economics be morally centered? FISHING DOWN THE FOOD CHAIN, BOOMING SHELLFISH POPULATIONS The explosion in lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine is a consequence of fishing down the food chain, which led to the disappearance of large predators—they are now ecologically extinct. Any subsequent collapse of the Gulf of Maine lobster populations will THE AFGHAN WAR, TERRORISM AND MEDIA PROPAGANDA The Afghan War, Terrorism And Media Propaganda. As 2010 winds down, I am reminded that there is no Imperial policy more reprehensible and shameful than the war in Afghanistan. This war is constantly presented to Americans as an integral part of the War On Terrorism, but it is no such thing. The Afghan war is a pointless, expensive, destructive DOES A BEAR SHIT IN THE WOODS? When you're born into this world, you are given a ticket to the Freak Show, and when you are born in America, you get a front row seat — George Carlin The point of today's post is simple, probably deceptively so. Steve Hargreaves of CNN Money is asking Are big banks driving up commodity prices? OK, I can hear some of you laughing. Wipe that smirk off your face! — this is not a laughing EXAGGERATED CLAIMS ABOUT OVER-FISHING OF THE OCEANS I was investigating peak wild-caught fish recently when I stumbled across Our Oceans Can't Survive Fishing Madness by Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line and Blinkers, an in-depth look at fishing off New Zealand. I was particularly struck by this passage. Scientists disagree over the size of the overfishing problem. Getting reliable catch data is hard enough, data on fish DECLINE OF THE EMPIREARCHIVESWE'RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLEBECAUSE THEY DON'T CARELISTEN TO THISSAME AS IT EVER WAS One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals — justice or progress or the happiness of future generations, or the sacred mission of emancipation of a nation or race or class, or even liberty itself, which demands the sacrifice of individuals for the freedom ofsociety.
HUMANS ARE NOT RATIONAL PROBLEM SOLVERS This post is a follow-up to my essay Humans Are Not Rational Problem Solvers, which I reprinted last Sunday. Here I will examine anthropogenic climate change (global warming) through the lens of Jared Diamond's explanation of why humankind has done little or nothing to address the climate problem. Diamond is well-known to thoughtful people as the author of Guns, Germs And Steel, KURT VONNEGUT'S LETTER TO THE FUTURE Kurt Vonnegut's Letter To The Future. In 1988, Kurt Vonnegut wrote a letter to people living a century later in 2088. Ecowatch's Kick Kennedy recently put this letter on-line, calling it "more relevant today than ever before." Here I'll re-print the final part of the THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You DEMOCRACIES ALWAYS FAIL Many Americans believe they live in a democracy. They don't. Yes, there are names on the ballot, campaigns are waged, votes are cast, and the winners serve their terms in Washington. But some votes count more than others. Way more. Those who vote with their checkbooks have far more sway than those who do nothing but push buttons or pull levers in a voting booth.REMIND ME AGAIN
Robert A. Johnson, executive director of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, is greatly exercised by the failures of the economics profession. He believes that economists have performed a Great Disservice To Mankind (see below). He lays out his concerns in What About the Questions That Economics Can’t Answer? Can economics be morally centered? FISHING DOWN THE FOOD CHAIN, BOOMING SHELLFISH POPULATIONS The explosion in lobster populations in the Gulf of Maine is a consequence of fishing down the food chain, which led to the disappearance of large predators—they are now ecologically extinct. Any subsequent collapse of the Gulf of Maine lobster populations will THE AFGHAN WAR, TERRORISM AND MEDIA PROPAGANDA The Afghan War, Terrorism And Media Propaganda. As 2010 winds down, I am reminded that there is no Imperial policy more reprehensible and shameful than the war in Afghanistan. This war is constantly presented to Americans as an integral part of the War On Terrorism, but it is no such thing. The Afghan war is a pointless, expensive, destructive DOES A BEAR SHIT IN THE WOODS? When you're born into this world, you are given a ticket to the Freak Show, and when you are born in America, you get a front row seat — George Carlin The point of today's post is simple, probably deceptively so. Steve Hargreaves of CNN Money is asking Are big banks driving up commodity prices? OK, I can hear some of you laughing. Wipe that smirk off your face! — this is not a laughing EXAGGERATED CLAIMS ABOUT OVER-FISHING OF THE OCEANS I was investigating peak wild-caught fish recently when I stumbled across Our Oceans Can't Survive Fishing Madness by Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons, authors of Hook, Line and Blinkers, an in-depth look at fishing off New Zealand. I was particularly struck by this passage. Scientists disagree over the size of the overfishing problem. Getting reliable catch data is hard enough, data on fish AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remain anonymous — Dave To _____ You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs. THE COMPLIANT PERSONALITY There is a type of person who I find more irritating than most. You will understand why as I go along. It's good to have a name for such people and a description of them, so I invented The Compliant Personality. Commenting on my recent post Dismantling Dodd-Frank — How Crazy Is This?, a reader (Jim) referred to an article by Matthew Yglesias called Why Lobbyists Write Bills and Why You THE HUMAN RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER SPECIES In my recent post The Argument From Ignorance, speaking of Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction, I wrote the following— Kolbert is too polite to say it, but the book is not "a call to action" because there are no collective actions that would fix the mass extinction problem. Humans would have to be something other than they are. And if we were a different species, there probably wouldn't THE LIMITS OF FREE WILL IN HUMAN ACTION In traditional societies, which are historically vestigial and almost invariably politically repressive, the will of the society is the will of the leader or small group (oligarchy) which runs it. In this case, the Free Will argument reverts back to the case of the individual leader (s), who are strangers to themselves in the sense justdiscussed.
AMERICA'S NEW GILDED AGE There's a "new" kind of class warfare being waged in in the United States, but you have to look very closely to find it. Perhaps "warfare" is the wrong word, for a war must have two sides in active opposition to each other, whereas this time around we only have two sides. This "warfare" is creating conditions that more and more resemble those of the late 19th century when America did not yet HUMANS DO UNDERSTAND THE EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION I was reading through a mostly uninteresting book by William Ophuls called Immoderate Greatness—Why Civilizations Fail. Right there near the beginning, in the "Biophysical Limits" section, at the beginning of the "Exponential Growth" chapter, was physicist Al Bartlett's famous quote. The greatest shortcoming of the human race is the inability to understand the exponential function. ECONOMICS AS A MORAL SCIENCE? This is part two of a three-part series on moral preferences, social groups and economics. It comes to about 13 printed pages — Dave On questions of morality, contemporary economics stands mute. Writing about Adam Smith in the aftermath of the financial meltdown of 2008, Harvard's Amartya Sen put it bluntly— The nature of the present economic crisis illustrates very clearly the need for WEALTH AND ENERGY CONSUMPTION ARE INSEPARABLE The growth rate 1.87% for energy consumption is an average for the period 1970-2006. The average growth rate for the total accumulated wealth was 1.82% over that period. Note that this an empirical result and thus stands outside any particular theory or framework, although it falls out of Garrett's hypothesis (thermodynamic model) that some HOW F**KED UP IS HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES It is very hard to answer the question posed in the title of this post. No matter how fucked up you think health care in the United States is, it is even more fucked up than that. In this regard, it's a lot like the size of the observable Universe. No matter how mindbogglingly large you think it is, the Universe is even bigger thanyou imagine.
ARE HUMANS A PLAGUE ON THE EARTH? Having abandoned his lifelong quest to win friends and influence people, 86-year-old David Attenborough told the The Independent (UK) that humans are a plague on the Earth. TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has warned that human beings have become a “plague on the Earth”. The 86-year-old broadcaster said the negative effects of climate change and population growth would be seen in the DECLINE OF THE EMPIRE* Home
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AMERICA IS FINISHED, THERE IS NO WAY OUT _I decided after the fact to put this e-mail I just sent on the blog. The e-mail is to a correspondent in Australia. He shall remainanonymous — Dave_
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> You would simply not believe what is going on here in the U.S. The > obvious voter fraud and statistically near-impossible vote count > patterns in the swing states has put everything up for grabs.>
> It's not clear what the outcome will be, but no outcome will be > good. America, the powerful colossus which has held sway on Earth > since World War II, is now a _third-world country_. This is > what the fascists wanted and this is what they have wrought.>
> I can't even watch this unfold. It's hard for me to watch. It's just > too damn depressing.>
> The other day a "friend" disowned me & abused me verbally because I > voted for Trump. She is literally _deranged_. She has had > a _psychotic break_ with reality. _There are literally millions of > Americans just like her_. Many millions.>
> What do we do about that? There is no way out. I feel total> despair.
>
> — Dave
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THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING Perhaps you've noticed that Western Civilization is collapsing. For example, in Paris _you need papers just to leave your house_ because of another useless covid-19 lockdown. I could provide countless examples just like this one at this point. Covid-19 is only a rationalization which hides other, deeper authoritarian impulses. It's a _RUSE_. Humans, especially those with _political power_, don't know what they're doing or why they're doing it. "Power corrupts" said a wise man. You would think humans would figure this out after 5,000years of experience
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But they can't, they don't. Sigh. Or perhaps I assume way too much. It is far more likely that you have _NOT_ noticed that Western Civilization is collapsing because filtering these kind of vague "not my problem" existential threats is what humans characteristically do. You tell yourself "nothing to worry about here, it'll be fine." Go ahead, tell yourself that. And you clearly you can't respond to something whose existence you can't even acknowledge. But I see the authoritarian threat. I'm not filtering anything. It's clear as day. As clear as the hand I've put in front of my face. _I AM AN AMERICAN_. Europe, the United Kingdom. Australia, Canada, blah blah blah. The European Union is a joke. The UK is rapidly falling under the authoritarian boot (another useless fucking lockdown). Australia has something akin to martial law. Canada is just... pathetic.
America fucking _is_ Western Civilization. If you're an American, don't fool yourself. _THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING_.So we start here.
If we're going to save humans rights, rule by law and strive for equality under the law as _general principles_, despite the inevitable failures that human nature engenders, we need to start right here in the good 'ole United States of America. And if we can save the situation in America, perhaps we can get confused, docile humans in the U.K. and other places to stand up for themselves too. Absurd as it may be, saving Western Civilization starts with voting for Donald Trump tomorrow. Absurd as it may be, a vote for the Orange Man is a vote against ruthless authoritarians (fascists). Democrats and the corporations they serve want to lock you down. They want to tell you how to live your life. They don't want you to think for yourselves. They want to think for you. _FASCISTS BELIEVE ONLY IN POWER_. And power corrupts. For them, _WRONGTHINK IS A CRIME_ and must be ruthlessly suppressed. Don't believe me? Look at Jack Dorsey (Twitter) Look at Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Pay no attention to what these assholes say. Pay attention only to what they do. If Biden and the Democrats win, monopolistic social media information suppression will never go away. It will simply become part of the way we live. Believe me, you do not want to live in that Orwellian world. In the Senate hearings last week, Republicans hammered Dorsey for suppressing what he believes is wrongthink on Twitter. Dorsey believes he knows what's good for you. And he believes he's morally superior to you. These are self-serving delusions born of socialsuccess and power.
Do you know what the Democrats wanted in those hearings? _THEY WANTED MORE INFORMATION SUPPRESSION. THEY DON'T THINK DORSEY IS DOING ENOUGH TO FIGHT AGAINST WRONGTHINK_. Is that the future you want? If not, you have a chance tomorrow to do one, simple thing to fight back. In itself it won't be enough, butit's a start.
And what is that one simple thing? Vote for Donald Trump. At least he'll let you live your life the way you see fit and your day-to-day life may even improve. And you won't have to be _totally_ embarrassed to be a member of the species _Homo sapiens_ as I am every day (video below). _Next Leader of the "Free" World?_ Posted at 11:55 AM | Permalink| Comments (0)
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GLENN GREENWALD CENSORED AT THE INTERCEPT, RESIGNS Long-time progressive journalist Glenn Greenwald has resigned from _The Intercept_, an organization he co-founded. Glenn resigned because the _Intercept_ editors did not want him to publish a story on the corrupt dealings of Hunter Biden and his father Joe, who may be the next president of the United States. (Though not for long, because the plan is to push Joe out due to his obvious dementia and install Kamala Harris, who has been Hillary's choice all along). Tim wants people to share his video discussing Greenwald's resignation, so here you go (video below). Heaven help us if Joe Biden is elected, says Tim, because then there will be little or no constraint on the behavior of ruthless authoritarians who have taken over our media and most of our other "liberal" institutions. Because the Biden corruption story threatens their plans to get rid of Trump, there has been close to total silence on the story in the mainstream corporate media. (You know who I'm talking about.) Fox News is reporting it, as are other conservative outlets like Ben Shapiro's Daily Caller , and that's about it. Controlling the information low or no awareness voters get to see—exercising total control of the narrative—is essential to achieving a fascist takeover of the United States (or totalitarian, Maoist, whatever you want to call it). The Greenwald resignation is just the latest chapter in this sad and oh-so-dangerous story. I've gotten e-mails over the last weeks and months since I've been writing about this ongoing powerful attempt to take away our freedom and destroy the Constitution. If these authoritarians are successful, they will have brought about the end of Western Civilization. If those emails I've received are representative, I have to say at this point that even people reading me don't have nearly the awareness required to acknowledge, let alone act upon, the threat we are under in 2020. Well, at least Tim understands that threat because he reads everything. Tim gets over a 100 million views every month now. We can only pray that he and others (like Tucker Carlson) have convinced enough people to make some kind of last stand against this corrupt and authoritarian onslaught. Here's Glenn's resignation letter,
which he published at _substack_. You can also find Matt Taibbi at _substack_. It seems sometimes in the United States that you can count the number of actual journalists with integrity on both hands and still have fingers left over. Most other "journalists" are really pro-censorship activists. But of course most people (sheeple) are confused about this, just as they are confused about everything else. There are now only 5 days until the election. Here's Tim. Posted at 06:50 PM | Permalink| Comments (0)
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TIM POOL GETS IT NOW Well, it took a long time, but Tim Pool has finally come round to my position—we are dealing with _fascists_. These _ruthless authoritarians_ (my definition) control most of our major institutions (the Democrats, the big globalist corporations, the big social media companies ("Silicon Valley"), the corporate-owned TV/print media, Wall Street, the prestigious universities, Hollywood, the security ("deep") state bureaucrats). This is alarming to say theleast.
People are generally confused about what fascism means because of 70 years of biased academic social studies. These studies originated in the Frankfurt school(Max
Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and rest). In the post-war period in the United States, those people were Marxists who escaped Hitler's Germany or Europe generally in the 1930s and early 1940s. Simplifying, to them a fascist was somebody who unquestionably followed a strong nationalistic leader (an "authoritarian personality").
To them, _nobody on the political "left"_ (socialists, maoists, communists) _could ever be a fascist because, given their bias, their definitions excluded all those groups_. For example, watch this short video of Jason Stanley, a Yale philosopher and _one of the most confused, delusional people on Earth_. Stanley is sure that Donald Trump is a fascist, though Trump has never acted in an authoritarian way, even when severely provoked. If he were a fascist, he would have sent the military to Portland, Seattle and many other places to put down the BLM/Antifa riots by overwhelming violent force. _He did nothing of the sort_. In fact, Trump wants to _deregulate_ the economy to the economic benefit of working people. That's the _opposite_ of what an authoritarian would do. Trump is actually like a 1990s democrat. As the Stanley video shows, confusion about fascism is still pretty much academic gospel today. Actually, things are much, much worse at universities today. Critical race theory teaches _anti-racism_, and as with all totalitarian equations, _Anti-Racism = Racism_ (just as War = Peace, Freedom = Slavery, Ignorance = Strength). In particular, Tim now understands the "duck test"— > _If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, > then it is almost certainly a duck._ Substitute the word "fascist" for the word "duck" and you will understand what you need to know here. Watch below as Tim struggles with his new understanding of the political world we live in. I love Tim for one simple reason: Tim loves the Truth and hates the Lie. People like Tim are very rare in this world. One identifying characteristic of fascists is that _they lie all the time about everything political_. CNN? Lies. New York Times? Fake News. And on and on. Tim often says journalism is dead. He's mostly right. On the other hand propaganda and disinformation is a thriving industry. And Tim hates that. Tim reads everything, which means that I don't have to. He could perform that service for you too, if you would only take the time to watch his daily reports. The Good News is that knowing what's going on and having a proper understanding of the existential threat against us is half the battle. The Bad News is that it's only _half_ the battle. The other half we have to do ourselves. In the video, Tim says (shortly after the 12:00mark)—
> _You wanna know who the resistance is? It's you and me._ Damn right. Tim is King in the North, the tip of that spear. Know the difference. Support Tim and all true anti-fascists everywhere. Posted at 11:09 AM | Permalink| Comments (0)
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REMEMBER THIS DATE — OCTOBER 14, 2020 Today Twitter and Facebook would not allow anyone on their platforms to link to the New York Post story which seems to show that Joe Biden lied about his and his son's corrupt connections to the criminally-run Ukrainian gas company Burisma. The story was published yesterday on October 14, 2020.Remember this date.
Let's sum up the meaning of this—*
Facebook and Twitter are interfering in the U.S. election to support the Democrats and making no bones about it — they are daring us tostop them.
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Facebook and Twitter have declared that truth is whatever they say itis.
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Facebook and Twitter have declared their right to apply authoritarian control of what information you get to see on their platforms*
Facebook and Twitter have decided that a well-informed citizenry is antithetical to their interests, but free speech and your right to access the information you need to make informed voting decisions is the bedrock of our democracy. * Therefore, Facebook and Twitter have officially and arbitrarily decided that some form of _authoritarian governance_ is generally preferable to our current democratic form of government (actually, we are a republic, but we can vote). Again, Facebook (Zuckerberg) and Twitter (Dorsey) have just spit in your face. They are defiant and unrepentant. Are you going to take that lying down? Are you adults? Or are you children? Are you free people? Or are you sheep who believe and do as they are told? We will find out right now. If you get your news exclusively from those platforms, you are consenting to their authoritarian rule over you. Facebook and Twitter _suspended the accounts_ of all those who tried to link-in the _NY Post_ story on their platforms, including the account of Kayleigh McEnany, Trump's press secretary, the Trump campaign account, a Republican senate account and_ the account of the New York Post itself_. Do you understand the seriousness of this blatant attack on the free press and free speech? I hope you do. Remember this date because if something is not done about this _right now_, and I mean _this week_, then you can kiss our democracy goodbye. I have tried to warn anyone reading here that what I call _fascism_ was coming and the time to act was now. I define fascism as _ruthless authoritarianism_. What Facebook and Twitter just did is ruthless authoritarianism in action. This is the message you need to understand right now— > _These social media corporations have crossed the line. There will > be no going back if we do not reign in these fascists right now. If > we fail to act, October 14, 2020 can be remembered as the day our > democracy died._ If we do not act now, we are done for. Western Civilization, which can be defined by the recognition of human rights and by the rule of law and equal protection under the law, will be done for. Remember thisdate.
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HERE ARE YOUR CHOICES I have tried to think about what I should write as I witness the terrible events of 2020, America's great crisis. Fuck it. Here is what's important now. There's a presidential election on November 3, 2020. On the one hand, you've got a totally unhinged, fraudulent, and now purely evil political party who call themselves Democrats. They are running a Manchurian candidate named Joe Biden, an old man who has serious and worsening dementia, a man who is utterly corrupt, and a sicko who can't keep himself from shamelessly touching any woman within his pathetic grasp. Still, this hardly matters in so far as Sleepy Joe is only a temporary stand-in for a ruthless authoritarian named Kamala Harris, who is really the immoral autocrat the Democrats wanted all along. That's why she was chosen as Biden's running mate. On the other hand, you've got Donald Trump. I'm going to vote for Trump and almost certainly would have done so even if I hadn't felt _coerced_ by Satan's Army on the other side. And in so far as the Democrats are trying to _delegitimize_ the election generally in case Trump wins by pushing fraudulent mail-in voting in the states they control, and I happen to live in one of those states, I am going to vote for Trump both by mail and in person if possible. Who is going to know? (Tim Pool video at the end below.) I will do this because I would prefer to live in a free country under the rule of law. The Democrats do not want you to be free and, once given power, they will eventually take the law into their own hands at the Federal level, regardless of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They have already done so in my state Pennsylvania and in Democrat-run cities using COVID-19 as their rationalization (see New York City, Seattle, Portland, St. Louis and Chicago). The republic has not been in this much danger since 1861. I greatly fear what will follow the election if Trump wins. You should too. Because I guarantee you those fascists on the Democrat side are not going to accept that result. And when they don't, there goes the rule of law unless we clamp down on them hard. _Really hard_. Because they are dangerously deranged. At the constitutional crisis point, after November 3rd, if the Democrats don't accept the election results if Trump wins, _anything goe_s, and that is _never a good thing where humans are concerned_. If you believe voting for Biden is the right thing to do because you've been brainwashed and have the awareness of a garden hose, try really hard to think of it this way—you might as well be voting for the Nazis in the German election of 1930, three years before the token 1933 election, after which they seized power and never relinquished it until they were finally crushed by the Allies in 1945. At least 7,000,000 million Europeans died before that happened and many more all around the world. I assume you see my point. Posted at 10:29 PM | Permalink| Comments (0)
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BECAUSE THEY DON'T CARE NYC mayor Bill DeBlasio's official Black Lives Matter mural, which he recently helped paint in front of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue, was "vandalized" again on Saturday. It was "vandalized" according to news reports because it's OK to paint the street when that lying motherfucker DeBlasio the dictator of New York City says it is, but it's not OK to do it when it's not politically sanctioned by the tyrant. Two women "defaced" the mural * because these phony BLM assholes and the politicians who protectthem are "liars!"
* because in reality "they don't care" about black people! * because all of us need to "take country back!" And so on. The best part is that one the cops enforcing fascist policy fell down and hurt himself trying restrict this woman's right to protest. Way to go ladies! _Abso-fucking-lutely._ You can find the longer, complete version here.
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UNDERSTANDING THE CLASS WAR AGAINST YOU _"You can observe a lot by just watching."_— Yogi Berra
In his video _BLM
Supporter Shoots Woman For Saying 'All Lives Matter' And News Tries To Cover It Up_, Tim Pool exclaims "I don't know why the media wouldn't tell us the truth about the shooting" (5:50 mark, watch the video up until then). I am going to answer Tim's anguished question in this post—why didn't the corporate-owned media report on this murder? The answer has profound consequences because if the corporate media silence (cover-up) is successful in this and so many other cases, millions of propagandized, ignorant Americans will maintain the delusional belief that the "Black Lives Matter" riots protests are morally legitimate and therefore nothing to be worry about. Perhaps they will then go ahead and mindlessly vote for Joe Biden, the literally demented and carefully hidden Manchurian Candidate the globalist/neoliberal elites have put up to represent their interests. If Creepy Joe wins, we will come to understand for real that _Democracy Dies In Darkness_, where "darkness" is the media silence in this Indiana murder and many other similar cases. This phrase is of course the motto of the thoroughly discredited Jeff Bezos-owned _Washington Post_, which is merely another vehicle for elite/fascist disinformation (like _CNN_, _The New York Times_, _The Atlantic_, andon and on).
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SHOULD A LIBERAL SOCIETY TOLERATE INTOLERANCE? I've already told you we have a fascist infestation in the United States. People in the U.S. are likely unaware that this authoritarian resurgence is more advanced in the United Kingdom. As I listened to the UK channel _spiked_ podcast today, called it's time to cancel cancel culture , I was reminded of Karl Popper's argument regarding the degree to which liberal (_i.e._, tolerant) societies should tolerate intolerance. I will quote Popper, and then give you my answer to this urgent question. You're almost certainly not going to like the answer. Continue reading "Should A Liberal Society Tolerate Intolerance?" » Posted at 04:36 PM | Permalink| Comments (0)
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SAME AS IT EVER WAS
The crazies have been tearing down statues lately. They started with slaveholders, moved on to presidents, and now they're tearing down abolitionists who fought and sometimes died fighting slavery. Their next targets are Lincoln (freed the slaves) and Jesus (too white). All of this is being done in name of virtue and assumed moralsuperiority.
Throughout human history, political evil always presents itself as virtuous and morally superior. If humans who are currently not so crazy could even understand this one simple thing, all would be made clear to them. These people, the ones who are willing to live and let live, would know what to do to prevent the great suffering to come. Unfortunately, humans generally have the awareness of a box of rocks. This is especially true of the crazies but applies to nearly everybody. Most humans can be hoodwinked by a moral tautology ("BlackLives Matter").
Even before indoor plumbing and cheap energy from fossil fuels, most human suffering was self-inflicted. That clearly hasn't changed and never will. It's not the virus, dummy. It's you, it's us. More specifically, it was recently those who exploited the pandemic for their own evil purposes. As always, harming you was framed as beingfor your own good.
Evil is always entirely self-serving and wants only one thing for itself—great and arbitrary power. This allows it to carry out atrocities on a whim in order to constantly remind us of its power over us. There goes Lincoln. There goes Jesus. There goes your neighbor. There you go too. In 2020, the new evil says that human history, here the history of people with white skin, is full of evil people (Jefferson ownedslaves).
In reality, all humans at all times have been and are deeply flawed. That is Human Nature. So the new evil will never run out of targets. Thus the new evil can justify itself over and over again withoutlimit.
The new evil says Human Nature doesn't exist. All things are possible says the new evil. The new things will be good things according to thenew evil.
The new evil says that history will be fixed. We will be delivered from the old evil because for the first time in human history genuine virtue and moral superiority have truly appeared. The new evil assures us that we will enter a Promised Land where strife and suffering are abolished. The new evil promises a Utopia. But of course Utopia does not and can not exist outside the deluded minds of the new evil (the crazies). Cast from the same mold, the new evil merely replaces the old evil. Thus the horrible and pathetic historical cycle repeats. Human Nature is not changed. Human history is not changed. We just get a new chapter in a very, very old story. Only the meaningless details change. Once again humans are the cause of most of their own suffering. Only the scale of our self-defeat changes when the craziestake over.
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