Tag: Machiavelli
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Unions understand Mach
There is only one law. RULERS DO WHAT THEY WANT. Rulers, whether government or big corporations, do NOT change their behavior in response to “laws” or “elections” or “protests” or “open letters”. All of those gimmicks are PROVIDED BY THE RULER to keep us occupied and distracted, to maintain our delusional myths about power. Well,…
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I don’t blame them
I finally signed up for Twitter, so I can compare the algorithmic feeds of all the major social media. Question at hand: Who is covering the PURPOSE OF LIFE now that Franny has brought it into the public conversation for the first time since 1945? Nothing subtle about Rumble and Reddit and Medium. Rumble is…
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Whoda thunk it?
Actors get it. The rest of the public sphere, including “independent” journalists, doesn’t get it. Whoda thunk it? Hollywood understands the world better than anyone else with a public voice? I certainly never thunk it until a few months ago when I heard the Hollywood types at the Ankler talking plain truth about “the” “virus”.…
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Broader Fairness Doctrine needed
FDR gave us the official Fairness Doctrine for R vs D partisanship, which also applied to other denominational teams like churches. Broadcasters had to take both sides, which meant in practice that they took NO SIDE. The result was much less national division along party lines. Lately I’ve been feeling generally non-confident and fearful, which…
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Can’t walk and chew bombs
Alisdair MacLeod discusses international banking. He has an important observation around the 15 minute mark. In our frenzied permanent obsession with obliterating Russia, we took our attention off the Middle East. Those countries realized that our Machiavellian dividing force was absent, so they made peace! All the fake enemies we created are now getting along…
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Bad design
Why are we designed to make life so damn easy for the dividers and conquerors? It takes hard mental work and long experience to avoid both teams. Ockham and Machiavelli warned us in specific ways. Jesus and his disciples warned their flock. Out of curiosity I checked the book of Proverbs, which I hadn’t read…
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Kirn vs Cervantes
Latest from Kirn: Privacy, censorship, surveillance, and freedom of expression must be explicit, top-tier issues in the upcoming presidential contest. All candidates must be pressed to take clear stands. First, there’s never any point in saying must. Government does what it wants. Government doesn’t care what peasants think it must do. Writers who put must…
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Da yoots GET IT.
Poll gave yoots a choice of losing social media or losing “voting” “rights”. They’d rather lose “voting” “rights”. This is a good sign. They’re full Machiavelli. They’ve figured out that “voting” is utterly pointless. = = = = = Looking more closely at the poll article, it gets even better. Is astrology a science? Is…
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So close yet so far
Brownstone continues to diagnose the problem perfectly, but misses badly on the prescription side. I appreciate the full Machiavellian diagnosis, focusing HEAVILY on the lockdowns and ballgags, less on the needles. As I’ve been tiresomely and pointlessly repeating, the needles were only a few moments of pain. The rest of it was two full years…
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Vivek the magsman
This Vivek character is playing a weird game. First he claimed that Lincoln’s Genocide was about applying the 2nd amendment to blacks, which is loony. Now he proposes raising the “voting” age to 25, and requiring a literacy and citizenship test for “voting”. After two examples, a pattern emerges. He’s parodying everything Repooflicans say, as…
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Breaking the sucker barrier
Hersh’s latest piece is personal again, discussing his exposure of CIA’s internal spying. He seems to have been genuinely ShockedShockedShocked that CIA was violating “laws”. He also believes that the Church Committee made new “laws” which CIA then followed. Most likely the Committee was acting on behalf of FBI, who owned the franchise on domestic…
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Who, what, how
Barrett is discussing Chomsky’s allegiance to Deepstate. Why should such a logical man miss so many logical connections? I understand Chomsky. He’s an academic type, a Howist, naturally inclined to seek the black-box answer to problems. He refuses to see motives behind assassinations and wars unless the event changes policies. I have the same tendency.…
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Acolytes
Taibbi is ignorant, or more likely memoryholish, about the real history of Deepstate and censorship. Taibbi’s acolytes carry on the same fine tradition. A ‘guest article’ by Andrew Lowenthal complains about the modern “unprecedented” mixing of Deepstate and progressives: Twitter emails show consistent collaboration between military and intelligence officials and elite “progressives” from NGOs and…
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Back door Fairness Doctrine
CNN supposedly decided to cut down on its partisan lunacy after QT forced media to pay more attention to PROFIT. /// Update: And CNN fired Don Lemon today after leaving him in purgatory for a while. Nice symmetry! Now Fox is moving in the same direction, forced by a lawsuit about the lunatic “election” crap.…
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Fairness Doctrine applied
Wolf Richter always provides Parkinsonian realism. One of the VERY FEW online commentators who applies the Fairness Doctrine, though it’s no longer required. In today’s wonderful article on the “debt ceiling” comedy routine: = = = = = START QUOTE: The debt-ceiling farce being performed currently in Congress could turn from a mildly entertaining political…
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