Tag: Machiavelli
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Edsels, Trudeaus, Toilets
Reading an old account of how the Edsel was developed. Designers had something better in mind, but corporate management, newly switched from family ownership to Share Value, had to exert raw power regardless of the consequences in profit. Managers stormed into the design studios and ripped up the drawings and clay models that didn’t suit…
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Where the elite meet…
I got tired of Brownstone a long time ago. They publish some hardass articles but their main goal is providing high-level Salons and Retreats for elite types. By participating in these Retreats, the elites can feel like they’re rebelling without actually rebelling. Just like Goths and Antifa and Bitcoin and Tea Party and Occupy and…
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Two weird responses
There are two bizarre responses to Biden pardoning his son. We expect Repoofs to treat it as unique, just as Dems treat everything Trump does as unique, EXCEPT for the ONE HUGE MONSTROUS HISTORY-ENDING UNIQUE CRIME OF IMPRISONING AND STRANGLING AND CLOSING THE ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY, which both “sides” have completely memoryholed now. Didn’t happen.…
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Policlicks
I know I’m writing solid stuff when I have exactly zero readers for a long time. The only items that get readers are the occasional stupid mentions of political crap. The rule is getting more and more solid. In the last two weeks I’ve written several pieces about Mutual Benefit Societies, and some historical items…
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You ain’t the muster, mister.
For many years commentators of various stripes have been telling rulers what they MUST do. It’s a perfect waste of words. You’re not the muster, so you can’t tell aristocrats what they MUST do. Aristocrats know who the muster is and what the muster wants, and automatically obey without explicit commands. Bezos and Soros are…
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Where Harding got his purpose
Eureka Lake started me reading about the Odd Fellows. They have maintained their original functions pretty well for 200 years. They work for peace, tolerance, mercy, and fellowship. A 1920 magazine from the Virginia state lodges shows how their steady purpose responded to Wilson’s brutality and unceasing propaganda. This attitude may have been widespread at…
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More basic sales rules
Speaking of physical vs virtual…. I randomly noticed a substack thread of Dem campaigners. They’re tired and discouraged because nobody will listen. They’re mainly worried that Trump will implement Project 2025 which is a world-ending apocalypse in their minds. Phone banks are simply useless, but door-to-door CAN bring results if you’re clearly offering something that…
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Healthy attitude
More examples of a healthy response to insane rulers. Along with the endless overdoses, dozens per day, we have violence of all sorts, mostly crazy. The activists want us to crusade against the rulers. Sorry, I’m a conscientious objector from ALL wars, official and unofficial. Unofficial crusaders lose every time, and their losses and failures…
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Not responding to the guilt trip
Advocates often insist that everyone MUST read things that disagree with our side, in order to have a chance of changing our mind. Nope. I have no obligation to eat stuff that tastes bad, nor do I have an obligation to mentally consume stuff that tastes bad. I shouldn’t try to PREVENT OTHERS from seeing…
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Color revolution or opportunity?
The hippie movement of the 60s hated profit. In the 70s the stock criminals took over. They also hate profit, and destroy businesses that dare to make a profit. The Tech Tyrants smoothly morphed out of the hippies, and started in the same Frisco. Modern “leftists” continue to hate profit, which continues to make it…
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Possible explanation
The basic Machiavelli trick is well-known. Divide people into Team A and Team B, set them against each other. The teams are so busy fighting each other that they have no energy left for resisting the ruler. In the last few years I’ve noticed an imbalance between the teams, which isn’t quite as familiar. When…
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Better name
Dams are failing in Tennessee. This is a straightforward result of spending all our money on war and destruction and NONE AT ALL on repairing or building. Year after year congress passes trillion-dollar appropriations for “infrastructure” but NONE of that money actually goes toward building or repairing. Most of it ends up in the pockets…
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Good work but pointless
A good speech by Lankford of Oklahoma. He runs through all the important issues, details what Congress COULD do about each issue if it had any purpose, then asks why nothing ever happens. If Congress was even slightly functional, this speech would get them off their collective asses. Unfortunately it can’t happen. He says most…
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Better prescription
Ramesh Thakur at Brownstone correctly diagnoses the current Machiavellian monstrosity in US/UK/EU. His proposed solution is wrong. = = = = = START DIAGNOSIS: A perfect storm of crises has been building. It comes from still bubbling rage with governments for their single-minded obsession with Covid and the lasting damage caused by lockdowns, masks, and…
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Still mostly valid
I’m totally disgusted but not surprised at the “anti-virus” activists who are now solidly inside the Trump cult. It’s not news that activist leaders are ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS working for money and power and greed. BUT: Exerting power in the correct direction is possible. Here’s a piece I wrote in July 2020, at the heart…
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