Tag: asked and unanswerable
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Was it time or space?
Thinking again about trust. A definite change happened in the early 80s. I don’t have enough ‘control variables’ to determine if this was a matter of national culture change or location. It could easily be culture by location, not culture by time. With that giant disclaimer, here’s the observation. In the ’70s, employers trusted me…
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Should have said it here
As usual I should have written this item here first. I wrote it as a comment on Peter Menzies’s substack blog about Canadian media and politics. Menzies was sad to see Canadians no longer trusting their elephantine neighbor. I’ve been wanting to say the same thing from an internal perspective, but this expresses the point.…
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Try to interpret this dream…
Dreamed this morning about Jesse Unruh, the old California political mover and shaker. I was an office manager. Unruh came in the front door along with a uniformed cop. I greeted him warmly. “Always wanted to meet you, Mr Unruh!”** But he was in a hurry, wanted to see the boss. I took him and…
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When do we get our post-colonial?
Most African countries were colonies of France or England for 200 years. They started to break loose after WW2 when both of the master countries were too busy cleaning up their own Kraut damage. By 1960 all of them were post-colonial. Some managed to set up competent governments, some didn’t. Now many of the British…
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Who are they fooling?
The current disconnect on economics is weird. At this point many of the ‘establishment’ types recognize that ordinary people are suffering. Even Bloomberg News, heart of the ‘establishment’, describes reality pretty well. Meanwhile, the alleged ‘leftist’ and ‘radical’ economists stubbornly stick to the crazy official numbers. An article by Dean Baker in the Nation asks…
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