Tag: Emersonian justice
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Was Emerson right?
In 1840 Emerson wrote: Though no checks to a new evil appear [at first], the checks exist and will appear. If the government is cruel, the governor’s life is not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict. Nothing arbitrary, nothing […]
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Grandma was more right than she knew
Common wisdom was right about nearly everything before “science” and “democracy” and “philosophy” turned wisdom into genocide and torture. Some branches of science are accidentally recovering old wisdom in recent years, while other branches (like “social” “science” and public “health”) are zooming out beyond the event horizon of infinite satanic lunacy. = = = = […]
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Kar Kontest Karma
The deliciously unbought Corvette NFT reminded me of another car contest with a beautiful end. = = = = = START REPRINT: In 1954 Nash held a ‘name this car’ contest to promote the new Metropolitan. They built a custom roadster using the same Austin engine as the Metropolitan, and invited entries to submit names. […]
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No quibbles this time
A nice long interview with Kirn. Highly needed compensation after this morning’s demon strike. Kirn stands back from all branches of nonsense, tribal and partisan and generational, and sees the BIG picture. The best part of the interview starts around 11 minutes, when he takes his father’s experience as a patent attorney dealing with inventors, […]
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Numbers all the way dooooooooooooown
Musical accompaniment. Time for a sip of Chateau Schadenfreude, now that the Holy Bitcoin has dropped off the scale at $20k. This number is not just a ‘chartist’ threshold. Some crucial loans and margin calls were designed to be triggered at this number. When your fake “economy” is built on Magic Numbers All The Way […]
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Natural justice
Bought more of Frank Edwards’s later non-UFO books. Edwards was an old-fashioned reporter who treated the souls and dreams of ordinary people as sacred. He hated anyone who deliberately exploited and ruined ordinary souls. Here’s one of his best and most passionate pieces: Emersonian justice. An entrepreneur who profited by breaking the bond between humans […]
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Michelet on how it ends
I’ve been citing and quoting Michelet’s magnificent 1904 essay on the Inquisition. Michelet was writing at a time when the psychopaths had been out of power for quite a while. The French scientific genocide faded in 1800 as Napoleon turned into a more ordinary imperialist, focused on expanding Empire instead of exterminating his own people. […]
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