Tag: natural law = soviet law
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What is a reporter for?
Matt Taibbi is following all the bad rules of “journalism”, which are the same as the rules of Deepstate. Protect sources above all. Never reveal anything that your source doesn’t want to reveal. Well then, what the fuck is your PURPOSE? You’re not reporting, you’re just an unpaid (or maybe paid) part of Deepstate. You’re […]
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More on Stalin and language
Continuing from here with Stalin’s remarkable essay on language. The PDF includes several letters written to various academicians after the ‘Ask Me Anything’ session at Pravda. In one of those letters he deals with the silly gesture-first idea, which was apparently popular among Soviet academicians at that time. = = = = = START STALIN: […]
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You think you’re “socialist”?
In previous item about the misplacement of the Woke source, I noted that old-style Marxists in academia had given us objective and realistic descriptions of history and social structures and language. I was trying to remember the name of a Marxist linguist whose work I once read, and tried googling with no success. I was […]
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We weren’t allowed
Vintage.es has a set of pix from Moscow in December 1959. The first thing I noticed is the lack of snow. Obviously cold, but all dry. (Not meaningful, just personally salient because I’ve been shoveling and raking 10 inches this week.) The second thing is a group of workers putting up a statue of Sputnik, […]
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Reprint on Mennonites
Following on previous item, here’s a 2018 reprint on those culturally influential Mennonites. = = = = = START REPRINT: As I’ve noted repeatedly, the line between Soros and non-Soros corresponds pretty closely to debt vs saving. The one BIG exception is China, which has fueled its tremendous mercantile expansion with pure debt. Now that […]
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WW∫D?
Interesting question in the Buttcoin reddit. Rather than admit defeat and reveal that they were running a ponzi, they simply gave away your assets and added more leverage to the system in an attempt to hide the deficit. At this time an ethical person with morals would have said “I’m sorry, I didn’t realise what […]
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More pointless rambling
Reading bitcoin’s original code has helped me to think about the larger qualities of money and economics. As a former bookkeeper I already had a solid grasp on the vectors of creating and increasing value in an ordinary business, operating inside a functional economy. From this foundation, plus 40 years of real programming, I could […]
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Who’s more effectively paranoid?
I’m looking at two strings of comments at Substack. First Justin Hart asking for guesses about WHY the “virus” hoaxocaust needed to happen in 2020, as opposed to any other time. Second, the responses to Taibbi’s funny drinking game on last night’s “election”. I used to wonder about the WHY question, and finally settled on […]
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Universal Parkinson
Parkinson’s Law applies to all levels of life. Cells are meant to work. When they aren’t allowed to work, they go rogue, creating arthritis or IBS or lupus or cancer. Humans are meant to work. When they aren’t allowed to work, they go rogue, turning to crime or suicide. And of course Parkinson’s original point: […]
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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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