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Wolf explodes a myth
And speaking of modules sharing a common ground… Wolf’s latest excellent graphs tell a story that breaks down the conventional media myth about 2008. I hadn’t seen these graphs before. I knew that the myth about a US housing bubble was wrong, but I assumed it was a US phenomenon, not international. Wolf shows stock…
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More on central vs decentral
Continuing with the Sucker Filter of bitcoin. Another obviously fraudulent claim is privacy. Running all of your transactions through NSA is not the ideal way to preserve privacy. NSA is a SPY AGENCY which knows better than anyone else how to break cryptography and bust through software limitations. Even more obviously, the transactions themselves can…
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Return to Truman 2
Still watching all the “independents” falling into line like passive iron filings near a powerful magnet. Still branching from that Feb ’50 Mutual news broadcast. It includes a brief emotional snip of the HUAC committee grilling Henry Wallace. The simple FACT is that all politicians were neutral and non-combatant from 1920 to 1940. We actually…
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There’s gambling in a casino?????!!!!
Astonishingly, JPMorgan turns out to be the power behind Ethereum. The responses from the cult leaders are predictable: The same thing that happened with the internet (Web2) is happening to Web3. Stand up and fight for decentralization while you still can and don’t lose focus because of greed. Decentralization IS greed, you idiot. Decentralization is…
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Define introview.
Semi-relevant to Batya’s crusade about modern “journalism”. From a 1958 publication by Natl Assn of Broadcasters. Modern “journalists” are all superficial extroverts. Not this guy. The Maj Gen is trying to penetrate his defenses with the top secret Eyebrow Ray, but it doesn’t work on introverts. We never make eye contact.
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The muddlers are worse than the cancellers 2
Following from here. This morning the anti-cancellers are weeweed up about: Apparently it wasn’t a real cancel, just a postponement of class coverage, so again this is more muddling than cancelling. Fact: FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS A MYTH. Censorship is permanent and normal. If you go back 1000 years in Russia and in England/America, you’ll…
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Finally a realistic fable
I’m constantly hammering on the permanence of status and caste and popularity. Meritocracy is a cruel fraud, and most of our myths and stories are designed to ruin unpopular and low-status people. Reprint on the theme: = = = = = START REPRINT: All human traits and talents and tendencies are innate and permanent. Some…
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Return to Truman
CNN and MSNBC are pushing ‘limited nuclear war’ to destroy the entire world. All the peaceniks and hippies are superhawks. We’ve seen this pattern before. MBS radio news from Feb 3 1950: Republican representative Robert Hale said the country isn’t frightened enough by atomic weapons. But Senator Elbert Thomas says people are too jittery. He…
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Sucker filter in pricing
As usual, Wolf’s excellent graphs show the end of the “pandemic” project. This was planned as a two-year project, March 2020 to March 2022. A specific set of stock demons were scheduled to Zoom up during the two years. Zoom, real estate flippers, delivery services. They knew the schedule, so they knew when to pull…
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Some things don’t change
From an otherwise uninteresting 1948 WBZ station brochure: Caption: Talent arrives with costumes for video rehearsal. Video was brand new in ’48, and talent was still operating in Vaudeville mode. Traveling between theaters, carrying their own costumes and props. The car in front is a base-model Hudson business coupe, probably belonging to one of the…
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Portable!
From April ’64 Sponsor magazine, a reminder that cameras everywhere are a recent phenomenon. If you wanted to record video remotely in 1964: Portable (in a van)! Roll-in (with two big guys to lift it)! Pocket-size (if your name is Gulliver)! The van is what really caught my eye. The artist montaged pieces of several…
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Everybody’s gettin into da act.
Since I disconnected from TV and radio, I’m no longer getting constant IV floods of media toxin. But I can still recognize the floods by an occasional oversplash. Most of the “independent” “journalists” have suddenly turned neocon again. Non-intervention is fine when China or Saudi or Israel is invading other countries. Non-intervention goes out the…
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The missing element, part 2
Continuing from here. Passive vs active, facts vs experience, in education. Here’s a sharp comparison from the early ’30s. RCA was promoting the passive version in a sneaky way. VITALIZED EDUCATION Radio has added to the plan of teaching a third dimension through which it may project a living personality into the school room or…
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Aside from personal feelings…
Putin has decided to retake Ukraine in a dramatic way. If he had done this before 2020, I would have been disappointed and disgusted at the way he’s doing it. But two years ago Putin joined the “virus” holocaust, and I gave up on him at that point. He’s indistinguishable from Trump or Biden or…
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More rambling
Still thinking about Okla…. The Okla Historical Assn made a series of podcasts a few years ago. This one, from 2018, is a long interview with former governor George Nigh. He was governor in the 80s, and started his term in the last year that I lived in Enid. According to Wikipedia he’s still alive…
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