Tag: Mutual Benefit Societies
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More Mutual meanderings.
More thoughts about mutuality and news… Last night the Spokane News FB page scored a scoop. The sheriff candidates agreed to hold their first televised debate through Spokane News, not through the mainstream “news” demons or Youtube. The candidates fielded live comments and questions from the page. Most cities have a FB page like this.…
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When did Mutual stop being mutual?
I’ve been noticing a clear pattern in the old radio news broadcasts. Especially in the ’50s, Mutual was far more objective and independent than the Big Three. CBS was wholly owned by Deepstate, with NBC and ABC not far behind. Frank Edwards was at Mutual, and he was cancelled by pressure on his sponsor, not…
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Statusotopic mapping?
If we start from my unconventional thought that secrecy is the default, what happens? If we treat this as the baseline assumption, what about “innovation” and “robust debate”? First some clarification. I’m talking about secrecy and language within a family or tribe or guild, not secrecy between all individuals. Language forms the circle and keeps…
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More on central vs decentral
Continuing with the Sucker Filter of bitcoin. Another obviously fraudulent claim is privacy. Running all of your transactions through NSA is not the ideal way to preserve privacy. NSA is a SPY AGENCY which knows better than anyone else how to break cryptography and bust through software limitations. Even more obviously, the transactions themselves can…
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Extinct chords
Singing used to be universal. Everybody knew how to sing, and performers could count on an audience to sing together accurately if not in complex harmony. When competence starts early, extreme expertise gets a head start. I was discussing this point in journalism, and it also applies to music. With skills that require practice, a…
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Michelet on how it ends
I’ve been citing and quoting Michelet’s magnificent 1904 essay on the Inquisition. Michelet was writing at a time when the psychopaths had been out of power for quite a while. The French scientific genocide faded in 1800 as Napoleon turned into a more ordinary imperialist, focused on expanding Empire instead of exterminating his own people.…
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