Tag: natural law = sharia law
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Necessary compromise
The anticoiners at Reddit discuss whether bitcoin is halal or haram. Some of the commenters get the important point. The basic rules of Islam solidly forbid all forms of speculation and usury. BUT modern Muslims engage in banking with interest, and engage in speculation, just like modern Jews and Christians. All three abrahamic branches agree…
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We manage somehow
It’s a peculiar situation. Polls consistently show that 2/3 of the population is perfectly tired of the political and corporate teams and all the crimes committed by the political and corporate teams. Yet no writers or politicians or corporations or advertisers or churches or entertainers are trying to pick up this audience. All the output…
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Must be genetic
Random irrelevant thought. Provisioning, laying aside food or other value toward the future, must be in the genes. Protists and plants and insects do it automatically. Birds and mammals do it in a more intelligent way. Finding that Yes, I’ve Got Enough After All gives tremendous pleasure, and this happy event occurs often in dreams.…
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If this succeeds…
Via Politico, two big donors are suing the ‘No Labels’ outfit for fraud. The Durst family gave $150k to No Labels at a time when No Labels was claiming to be a bipartisan think tank. After that, No Labels started running a third-party candidate, which the Dursts claim is a bait-n-switch. I’ve been agitating for…
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Pile of crap
Crap: The Catholic Church created the first universities. They were beacons of light, preservers and defenders of timeless truth. It is difficult for us to even imagine. = = = = = No. From the start universities have been defenders of orthodox doctrine. That was part of their intended purpose, and it’s still part of…
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No, it’s not neofeudalism
I’ve made this point before. It’s worth repeating. Everyone is referring to the gig economy as neofeudalism. The personalities are unquestionably feudal, the same insane inbred incestuous imbecilic aristocrats who ruled Europe for 500 years. The system is the exact opposite. Feudalism was based on TWO-WAY OBLIGATIONS. The lord was required to support his serfs…
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Why do I defend Hollywood?
Why do I worry about the survival of Hollywood? I haven’t liked anything they produced since 1970, and very little since 1950. Everything they produce now is intentionally awful, devoid of empathy and depth. Mike Gioia writes a spirited defense of the new independent producers, emphasizing that AI will give more power to the independents…
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Medieval mindset
The medieval mindset is hardass realistic about human nature, especially the nature of demons. Machiavelli wrote it all down in systematic and scientific form so we can read it now, but ordinary peasants were equally realistic. You can hear the realism in religious songs and prayers from the period. They didn’t ask God to Elect…
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Metawait 2
At a fixed timepoint in every episode of Lady Edgar’s official propaganda outlet This is your FBI, the smarmy Special Agent slaps his forehead and says “Wait! Why didn’t I notice this before?” Here’s one of those moments. For many years I’ve been focusing on ZERO TAX as the sole purpose of Repooflicans and Tech…
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Breaking Westphalia
Continuing the theme of pathological abstraction. Northern rebellion and Southern secession, written in 1904 by Ewing, answers and verifies several of my long-running questions. Ewing covers the Kansas terrorists in fine detail, verifying my historical and personal conclusions. Ewing also looks closely at the process of federation in 1776. He finds that the 13 colonies…
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Round trip
Suddenly this year, plenty of people who were stoutly defending absolute free speech “rights” have turned into censors. Before October, these “conservatives” had been smashing “liberals” for turning into censors. What makes this particular reversal salient is the round trip. 9/11 turned many “freedom”-loving people into censors against Islam. I was among that crowd. Afterward,…
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A fine Foy story.
From REA News in 1940…. John L. Jones of Silver Hill makes chairs. His father before him made chairs and his father before him and so on back for more generations than can now be counted; on back to the pioneer days of Tennessee and on back of that to the “ould sod.” But all…
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Trading
Tiffany talks with Sammy again. Predictably he’s taken up trading mackerel packs, which are the modern prison equivalent of cigarettes. When I was in the walls, cigarettes were the currency. Each pack had a “par value” of a quarter, though the actual price in the commissary was 40 cents. I bought my way out of…
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Reprint on two-way obligation
Linked in previous about AI and compensation, worth reprinting. = = = = = START REPRINT: Via Evolution News, a POWERFUL idea from Neil Thomas. It was the would-be rehabilitation of those ancient materialist thinkers by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, in the late 18th century, coupled with the later Victorian crisis of faith and…
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Natural, not natural
Advertising is natural. Most plants and animals advertise either positively or negatively. Plants create colors and smells and electrostatic fields to attract pollinators. Male animals use color and smell and sound to attract females and scare off competitors. Some are false advertisers, disguising themselves as poisonous or attractive or big. Basing a business on advertising…
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