Tag: From rights to duties
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News for ya, bud.
Fareed Zakaria claims to be puzzled by the unrest on college campuses, and says that colleges are not the nice COMMUNITIES that they once were. More students are lonely and depressed. Got news for you, asshole. Colleges were NEVER a community for unpopular people. Colleges were DESIGNED to be a community for aristocrats. In the…
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Open source is shit.
Part of the bitcoin gospel, and the Tech Tyrant gospel in general, is the “benefit” of Open Source at every level. Supposedly a codebase maintained by unpaid and overworked hobbyists will automatically be better and more secure than a codebase kept within careful bounds by a business that owns and guards the rights. Via Protos,…
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Reprint on two-way loyalty
Related to previous item, reprint from 2021. = = = = = The overall pattern, true for everything from land to telephones, has three steps: 1. Feudal relationships came first. A two-way loyalty between the seller and customer, or landlord and tenant. The land or product was in the hands of the customer but owned…
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Not complicated
“Independents” are seeing Deepstate involvement in the Baltimore bridge collapse, which turned an ironic national anthem into a melting iron sculpture by Dali. Impressive piece of installation art. Jimi Hendrix, eat your guitar strings! Nah. Unnecessary complexity. The event isn’t being portrayed as an attack. If media was treating it as an attack, then we…
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Luxury brands
Jeffrey Tucker did the best job of all in tracing the history and motives of the “virus” bioterror holocaust. But his Libertarian tendencies are still getting in the way, as he peculiarly wants to protect Apple from the antitrusters: = = = = = START QUOTE: Beyond that, there is a darker agenda here. It’s…
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Jail mode thoughts
A powerful and heartfelt comment in Spokane News. = = = = = START QUOTE: I don’t think anyone is laughing or joking but after 40 in a weekend everyone is becoming more desensitized to these situations. The police aren’t allowed to arrest people blantingly using drugs in plain sight, which typically is the start…
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One specific fact
When I read Naomi Wolf’s latest poetic lament on our modern hell, I wrote a quick passionate assent to her main point. She was saying that demons certainly exist. I wrote that demons have always been about 1% of the population, but before 1980 they were kept in asylums and prisons. Now they occupy all…
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How do these myths start?
Compact has a good article on Trudeau’s absolute tyranny, which was aided AS ALWAYS by the media. Compact’s writers grasp HARDASS REALITY better than most, which is why I pay for a subscription. I won’t pay anyone who can’t see beyond the standard myths. In this article one of the standard myths creeps in, perhaps…
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Non-hustly
One longstanding puzzle is why we decided to hate Russia. We started invading and occupying Russia in 1918, gave up during the blessed Lucid Interval, then started again with a vengeance immediately after President Lucid died in 1945. Here’s a clue to our previous attitude, which isn’t exactly warlike but definitely treats Russians as subhuman.…
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Reprint: Culture = skills.
Mentioned in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2020 REPRINT: A new measurement of the cerebellum is SHOCKING as usual. It’s essentially a flat sheet with the thickness of a crepe, crinkled into hundreds of folds to make it fit into a compact volume about one-eighth the volume of the cerebral…
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Makes up for the silliness
Compact Mag publishes some silly or counterproductive stuff. It also publishes some hugely valuable REALISTIC coverage of important things and places. This article on Bukele has a silly-sounding headline but turns out to be a REALISTIC history of a long-suffering nation that our media ignore. The history reveals why our media ignore it. El Salvador…
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Should have written it here.
Somebody on substack was noting that Putin is a far better player of international chess than our leaders. I agreed and added this comment, which I really should have written here first. = = = = = Putin has a head start. Russians understand us better than we understand them. Russians also understand us better…
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Good question, better answer
Good question from Kirn: How do gerontocracies take hold? Because it’s hard to get those in power to negotiate their own extinction early. Why should they make any bargains at all? They have nothing to lose, as they are about to lose everything anyway. You have to remove the very ground they stand on. =…
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A real unintended consequence
Most allegedly unintended consequences are clearly intended after you understand the Machiavellian purposes of the monsters. Results only look accidental or “failed” when you delusionally assume that the monsters want peace and happiness and normal lives for normal people. Despite all the “censorship” (mostly the old Banned In Boston trick) the web has brought a…
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Reprinting the first realization
I figured out the real purpose of “free speech” in 1978 and wrote about it here in 2008. = = = = = START REPRINT: The notion that civilization requires a certain degree of strictness is relatively undiscussed today. American commentators on both sides insist on touting Freedom, which is a delusion. It ain’t Freedom…
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