Tag: Machiavelli
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Reprint on Pluponents
Linked in previous item, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2017 REPRINT: I tried briefly to follow this article on MMT. Gave up quickly. It’s EXTREMELY abstract and academic, full of name-droppings only familiar to members of the same subsubsubsubdiscipline, written by a creature whose academic title is longer than most articles.…
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Phats?
Reading an 1891 Inland Printer, noticed an odd modern word in a report of conditions in KC: = = = = = START INLAND PRINTER: The past few months have witnessed the lowest depression in all branches of the printing business ever known in this city. Retrenchment has been the universal cry and practice among…
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Simple equation
This trader specializes in trading and advising about ESG. He understands it. There’s no need to mention theoretical crap about ‘marxism’ or ‘hypocrisy’. ESG = Larry Fink When a company follows ESG guidelines they’re not woke or commie or noble. They’re lapdancing Larry Fink, hoping to get some of his money. (This also includes two…
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What’s the diff?
Via NewSuperstitionist: Researchers find that Chat wants to agree with the questioner. = = = = = START QUOTE: This tendency, which the researchers call sycophancy, can manifest as agreement with left or right-leaning political views, thoughts on current affairs or any other topic raised in conversation. In some tests, the team created simple mathematical…
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Deepstate = Cheapstate
An Ockham thought after reading some theorists who attribute various emergencies to complicated PHYSICAL stuff like HAARP or “directed energy weapons” or “viruses” or “biochipped nanovax” or “escaped biolab projects”, etc etc etc. Deepstate is Cheapstate. Rich fuckheads never spend money unnecessarily. When you own the media and all the channels for the media, you…
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Metamach
Machiavelli’s book was written as a reference manual for tyrants. He was quite openly and scientifically telling princes how to divide and rule in all possible situations. What if you have a reluctant bureaucracy? What if you want to rule people with a tradition of autonomy? Recipes for every situation. Non-tyrants can read his reference…
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Big answer
TheFederalist interviews Jake Denton, a tech policy expert. Denton is Mach all the way down. He ignores the absurd noises of “elections” and “votes” and “legislation”, which normally prevent conservatives from thinking. He goes straight to raw personal power every time. Around 26:00 he answers one big question in a highly refreshing way. Why do…
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Zenith + Wallace, part 3 of 3.
Simplify, simplify, simplify. Wincharger focused my thinking on balancing natural forces with natural forces, using reactance instead of resistance. This leads to three separate Simplifies. The first is impractical, the other two are eminently practical. = = = = = Simplify #1: Farm generators ranged from 6v to 32v, always DC. Modern solid-state equipment, including…
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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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