Tag: natural law = soviet law
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Sputnik’s birthday, with a difference
Polistra and friends have been saluting Sputnik’s birthday for many years. This year, for the very first time, we have to salute NASA as well. Until last week NASA served no purpose at all. USA was pretending to compete against Russia’s superior education system and superior work system. We lost the pissing contest forever when […]
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Debtoleth = Deatholeth
Reprint from 2018 with a couple of marked updates. = = = = = START REPRINT with addendums: While futilely searching for info about direct payment from banks to heretics, I came across an 1883 text on banking with lots of nice clear history on banks, governments, and debts. There’s an extremely simple pattern that […]
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Marx is the real ledger 1
Repeating again the REAL phrase: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his WORK. If you don’t work you don’t eat. These concepts are in the Manifesto, in the first Soviet Constitution of 1917, and in the last Constitution of 1977. Maybe the usual phrase with NEEDS is derived from Capital; I […]
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Marx is the real ledger 2
From Wikipedia: Marx was a scholar, not a politician. He was primarily concerned with disproving the concept of marginal utility. He didn’t want to publish volumes 2 and 3 of Capital until he could disprove the concept to his satisfaction, which he never did. Engels and others saw the power-mongering potential and published the rest. […]
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Labored in obscurity
Sailer has an interesting observation about rediscovered greatness. “Labored in obscurity” is logically impossible. Greatness can’t be rediscovered later unless the artist or author was important enough (not necessarily famous enough) to leave a body of work in collections or libraries, or a ‘school’ of proteges and followers. The opposite is actually more common: Artists […]
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Getting closer
Kirn has expanded his peculiar argument against AI “art”. He’s on the angelic side of the fight, but his approach is destructive. He focuses on risk and vulnerability as the important factors that make human products human. THE PRODUCT IS NOT THE POINT. Peter Biles gets a lot closer: For me, knowing that a specific […]
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We need a Foy Rebellion
Yesterday I was discussing the cultural IMPERATIVE to re-employ ordinary men after WW2. France implemented a similar IMPERATIVE after it recovered from the 1789 revolution, which turned its demonic vision of “science” into a god of war and torture. France returned to a strictly practical and concrete way of life, with careful regard for the […]
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Terrible idea.
US Congress and UK Parliament are starting to consider regulations on bitcoin. Terrible idea. 1. Regulating after the fools have lost their money won’t help anyone. If you’re going to protect fools from voluntarily losing their money, you need to do it on the boom side, not the bust side. The bust itself cures many […]
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An old contrary view
Not immediately topical, just an item I’ve been wanting to highlight. In this short clip, commentator Raymond Gramm Swing covers two trials that were happening in 1938. Swing points out that our conventional view of both trials was (and still is) flat wrong. Pastor Niemoller was NOT a rebel. He was a ferocious Kraut soldier […]
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Tenzor
Continuing a vaguely defined theme of obscure and peculiarly clumsy secret equipment. = = = = = = = = = = Soviet spies were working in Oklahoma and Kansas in the ’50s, as evident in the correct local pronunciations on their maps. Every city and province has its secret shibboleths, its own tests for […]
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The importance of plateaus
Assisted by the Kirn discussion, I connected two longtime themes. 1. Exponential vs tanh. Life doesn’t go exponential. Every individual, or company, or community, rises to a ceiling or plateau and stays there. Individuals die, but companies and organizations don’t necessarily die. Many have lasted for hundreds or thousands or years, by steady satisfaction with […]
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