Tag: Emersonian justice
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2015 reprint on intervals
I linked this 2015 piece in a footnote to yesterday’s item about two-part sleep. This piece listed several examples of theory and “learning” displacing older natural methods and natural knowledge. It rambled somewhat, but the rambling led to a point and turned out to be prophetic. = = = = = START REPRINT: Nothing can…
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Both ways continued
Continuing the cuts both ways theme from previous item… Craig Wright, a professional suer, is also running a patent factory, generating THOUSANDS of carefully crafted patents to block everyone else in the blockchain game. Patent pools cut both ways. When used by pure fraudsters like Wright, they block normal business. Bitcoin is a purely dishonest…
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Purchase is not “appropriation”
Surber points to the usual Die-Verse dividing act, accusing white musicians of “cultural appropriation”. The term is nonsense. In music as in most other arts, good work gets used by a wide variety of performers. The audience doesn’t care who “appropriated” who; the audience only cares about the pleasure of the performance. Surber points out…
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Recognize the tanh point.
Outrage! The Miss Universe pageant goes all the way on Woke. First, this is NOT NEW. The big beauty pageants stopped competing for real beauty and other human qualities a LONG TIME ago. Second, the same thing has happened in other forms of competition from athletics to spelling bees to casinos to business. Third, why…
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Repetition isn’t bad
Denyse at MindMatters says: Hollywood has been developing a culture that welcomes AI-generated content with its tendency to pressure writers to fit a formulaic narrative structure instead of encouraging them to pursue real creativity and collaboration. Well, this is hardly new. Mass entertainment has always been a repetitive product, and that’s a good thing. Humans…
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More Emerson
Demons have locked themselves out of the house. Via DailyMail: The economic center of the US is now in Dixie. = = = = = START QUOTE: Two-thirds of all job growth in the country is now concentrated in the Southeast, and it is home to 10 of the 15 fastest-growing cities. The change in…
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Will he learn?
Nathanael Blake at TheFederalist has encountered a Learning Moment. He’s a total neocon who suddenly realizes that aggressive free trade gets in the way of aggressive militarism. = = = = = START QUOTE: Industrial policy is defense policy. The ability to build is essential to our national defense, but our leaders have spent decades…
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Fruitful branch
The rental house kittycorner from me has a landlord with a remarkable talent for selecting good families. Most are Air Force types from Fairchild. Air Force is a reliable source of good citizens. The latest family is pure 1950s Hallmark Americana, but not Air Force. Dad is always out working on the car, and his…
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Another sign of spring
Another small but significant sign of turnaround. The port of Naples has banned demon ships. Corriere della Sera reported that the media tycoon Barry Diller was also forced to renounce Naples after the Mergellina harbourmaster banned yachts of more than 75 metres in length for security reasons. Business and civic interests are protesting, since they…
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Delia’s gone, one more round
Sam Kahn writes in New Atlantis about Delia Bacon, a forgotten figure who was at the center of the American creative burst in the 1840s. She was taught by Beecher and influenced Emerson and Hawthorne and Poe. She wasn’t related to Francis Bacon, but spent her life trying to establish that Bacon wrote Shakespeare’s work…
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QT continues to solve problems
Yahoo notes that Beyond Meat, a pure QE cash-burning fake company, is on the way down. They miss the main problem, which I discussed in 2019. = = = = = START REPRINT: It’s been clear from the start that Tesla cultists are not truly green. They’re rich fuckheads who fly and drive all the…
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Speedrunning = speedreading
From 1905 to 1945, most Americans had an accurate idea of how to get wealthy. We understood the Machiavellian truth. Power and wealth are earned by evil and crime. Busting this truth was a MAJOR part of Deepstate’s project after 1946. Massive media and school-based propaganda attempted to restore the lies of “equality” and “meritocracy”.…
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Two graphy Californians
I’ve been reading Steve Sailer and Wolf Richter for many years. Both are longtime Californians, both are keen observers who know how to look beyond the partisan crap, and both use a lot of data and graphs. Recently Sailer has been losing his sharpness and Wolf has been gaining. Today’s articles are a good example.…
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Spring rebirth
Polistra and friends enjoy a refreshing spring shower now that warm weather has finally arrived. Thank the Lord and thanks to Jerome Powell for continuing to hold the line despite universal screeching from the vultures. Real business and thrift have a chance of rebirth now. = = = = = Graphics footnote after posting: The…
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Beautiful! More, please!
Another fuckhead bank goes DOWN IN FLAMES! Silicon Valley Bank branch in Manhattan today called the cops on tech investors trying to pull their cash out as a run on the bank forced regulators to seize its assets. Police were called after ‘about a dozen’ financiers, including former Lyft executive Dor Levi, showed up outside…
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