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The Saudi divorce
Thinking about the universal blocking principle. Patents block innovation, investment blocks business, outsourcing blocks useful work. I forgot to include war in the list. Our wars since 1990 have been blocking wars. Before Wilson we fought to ACQUIRE resources in Latin America and Asia because we had a PRODUCTIVE economy, not a BLOCKING economy. WW1…
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Sentence never written before
The president headbutted the pope. Even AI couldn’t come up with this combination. Only our actual presidents and popes can reach this level of impossible unimaginable lunacy.
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Wonderful cerebellum
This morning’s storetrip seemed especially easy. I wonder why? Oh. School is out for the summer so traffic is light. Instantly ‘His Yoke is Easy and his Burthen is Light’ dropped on the turntable of my mental jukebox and played all the way through. I haven’t heard or thought about that piece in at least…
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Empathy for Dixie!
Most articles allegedly about the South only recapitulate the standard Yankee hatreds. This feature about dialect gets everything right, with a rare added dollop of empathy. Best is the definition of Fixin To, often pronounced as fitna. We have to love the laid-back attitude of the Southerners. This phrase pre-empts an intention, so it’s right…
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Finally found an exception
A couple years ago I complained that US movies and TV were short on genuine psychopaths. Brits did a much better job of portraying the type. Finally found a solid exception. The villain in this movie is Sam Altman or Sam Bankman or Elon or Bezos, the Effective Altruist type. He lives a wealthy life…
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CompactNN?
What the fuck is going on here? Is the editor asleep, or is the magazine switching sides? Compact Mag exists to defend populism in various forms. This article belongs in NYTimes or CNN. It stoutly defends the need for Deepstate’s worst abuses, and weirdly assumes that the world is still in 1960. The first definition…
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Continuing on grammar…
Continuing from grammar and utility. Before the holocaust I was exploring this subject in detail, noticing that languages without noun cases correlated strongly with Sorosian destruction. The holocaust derailed me; maybe I can get back on track. In yesterday’s piece I mentioned but didn’t emphasize the TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS, which are the key to real civilization.…
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Unusually good question
Somebody on substack asked a sharp question. Would a new draft start a civil war? Normally I ignore threats of a civil war. Side R expects Side D to start a civil war and vice versa. This specific question might be valid. Our warmakers have been able to run wild since 1975 because there’s no…
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Back to Magic Lanterns 2
Last week I returned to the subject of Magic Lanterns, the intersection of science and entertainment. Now I’m imagining another development of magic lantern tech that was easily possible in the era of the lanterns. Fluidic analog computers came along in the 1930s, AFTER electronic analog computers. This sequence was common. Many machines could have…
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Maybe it was….
Stoller finally figures out that Trump is a fraud. SOME OF US figured it out a lot sooner. After his inauguration I kept waiting for the promised action, saw a couple of changes that looked good, but no steady movement. If you want to reform an organization, you need to hit hard in the first…
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Reprint on utility and grammar
Reprint from 2021, just because I want to bring it back to the foreground. = = = = = START REPRINT: MindMatters tries to separate out human language from animal communication: Believers in human non-exclusivity do not appear to be especially picky about what counts as evidence for their views. For example, here’s a research…
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Probably deleted enough
If I’m going to believe the emails, my Account SiriusXM and my Account Netflix have been deleted several thousand times. They get deleted three or four times each day. Seems like they should be pretty thoroughly wiped out by now, especially since never had I an Account Netflix or an Account SiriusXM in the place…
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Answering a different question
One phrase in Henry Wallace’s speech on the Red Menace wants more explanation. He called Herbert Hoover the Engineer of the Great Depression, and observed that Hoover was part of the cabal who were engineering the permanent Red Menace in 1948. Conventional history says that Hoover was a ‘fall guy’ for Wall Street, accidentally allowing…
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Ahem
Via Reuters: The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Ahem. SOME OF US have been trying to point out that anti-vax has all the signs of an organized Agent Provocateur.…
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Alien non-empathy
The auto companies agreed on the definition of the Conservative Prospect. He likes economy and simplicity and plain things. Mormon Romney understood the type personally, so Rambler training films had an empathetic attitude. The other companies saw the Conservative Prospect as an inferior species, to be tolerated when necessary to meet a sales quota. Salesmen…
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